Christ The King Voluntary Academy
Darlton Drive, Arnold, Nottingham, NG5 7JZ
01159556262
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Christ the King Sixth Form is an environment which enables every student to achieve both their academic and personal potential. We are committed to ensuring that we set the highest academic standards for our students in an ambitious and supportive environment.
Students stay here because of the special relationships they have with their teachers. Students understand that they will be supported every step of the way through their A Levels. Our students aim high and we encourage them to be ambitious in chasing their dreams. They also understand that, with hard work, they will do very well here in their A Levels: the vast majority of CTK students achieve their first-choice destination after their A Levels.
Our Sixth Form is at the heart of our school community and we pride ourselves on both our academic and pastoral support. Our personal development programme, supportive tutors and committed and passionate teachers offer care and guidance that makes Christ the King a wonderful place to study and grow.
Our mission is ‘To provide the best education and care we can for all members of our living faith community’ and we are proud in how the young people in our care flourish personally and academically during their time here.
We understand that the step up from GCSE to A Levels can be daunting. Our transition programme is designed to support our new sixth form students in making this step. This starts in Year 11 when our taster days give them the opportunity to spend a day as a Sixth Former, sampling A Level lessons in subjects that they are interested in, and using our Sixth Form facilities. They will spend a day in the summer term after their GCSEs preparing for the subjects that they have chosen to study at Key Stage 5.
Our transition programme from September focuses on academic skills and your child’s well‑being, ensuring that they have all the strategies needed to make the most of the opportunities that life at our Sixth Form brings.
Our Learning to Learn Programme and VESPA Mindset sessions all take place in the first term through both our CPSD curriculum and your child’s form tutors.
We also appreciate that Sixth Form is step on your child’s future journey and that they will be thinking ahead to life after A Levels.
Our CPSD programme and our links with outside providers ensures that your child is supported in making career and education choices that are right for them.
I warmly welcome you to look around our site to see what Christ the King Sixth Form can offer you and I always suggest speaking to our current sixth form students who will given you an honest assessment of life at Christ the King.
I look forward to meeting you in the near future.
Neil Reddington
Head of Sixth Form
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Grace Hodgett Young
September 2013
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We are delighted to announce that one of our ex-students, Grace Hodgett Young, will be making her West End debut TONIGHT at the Savoy Theatre in London. She will be starring alongside Nicole Scherzinger in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s legendary Sunset Boulevard, playing the role Betty Shaefer, for the 16 week run. Grace starred in every CtK school production from when she started school in 2013, so we’ve browsed the production archives and put together a gallery timeline of her performances. In 2014, she starred at Little Inez in Hairspray. The following year, she played Betty in the Crucible, and in 2016, she played Dodger in Oliver. Her final performance for CtK was in 2018, where she played the main part of Doloris in Sister Act. After leaving Christ the King, she attended Mount View Theatre School in London, where she starred as Ariel in the Little Mermaid in her final, end of year performance and has recently been signed by JAG Agency in London. If you can’t tell already, we are incredibly proud of Grace and all she has achieved since leaving CtK. Her drama teacher, Louisa Stanley, had this to say about the rising West End Star – “We are just so proud of Grace and all she has achieved since leaving us at CTK. Her hard work, dedication and determination has paid off! I knew Grace was a bundle of talent from the very first moment I met her when we walked back from church together when she was at the beginning of Year 7. I asked her “can you sing?” and Grace proceeded to sing full blast a song from Hairspray. She blew me away and continued to do so as she grew. What a talent! I am immensely proud of her and can’t wait to see her in her West End debut and beyond. There was no ‘Plan B’ for Grace as I knew that her insane talent for musical theatre would always bring her success. I feel very lucky to have taught Grace and wish her all the love in the world as she begins her first steps as a professional West End actress… Go Grace!
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Show all activitiesAll students have the opportunity to take part in the CARE Award programme. This allows students to get involved and develop skills in the four key areas of our mission statement – Community, Achieve, Respect and Encounter. Students can build up their hours of participation and achieve awards at Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum level.
The EPQ is a really valuable qualification that universities value and is worth more than half an A level. It is aimed at students who are passionate about learning and conducting detailed extra research. You will be working independently with regular meetings with your mentor to check progress. On average students read around 10+ books/articles and write a 5000-word project (around 15 pages) Although this is very time-consuming it is very rewarding and for students who love their subject a real opportunity to demonstrate this. If you are looking to get high grades and apply to very competitive courses or universities for example, Oxford and Cambridge and Medicine or Law, this could be a great option for you.
About Education Provider
| Region | East Midlands |
| Local Authority | Nottinghamshire |
| Ofsted Rating | Good |
| Gender Type | Co-Educational |
| Address | Darlton Drive, Arnold, Nottingham, NG5 7JZ |