Why choose King's?
- We have the best academic performance of any school in the city.
- We will offer students experiences that will help them access prestigious courses. We have many links in the field of medicine, technology and business. Using our unique partnerships, we will offer every student to comes to King's the opportunity to meet high profile individuals and businesses, to visit places of work and study related to these fields. This will give you experiences that set you apart from the competition and that build your CV and personal statement in a powerful way. If you are bright and ambitious and want to benefit from these opportunities, we are the place for you!
- This is an opportunity for a new relationship with your teachers and a chance to take your learning to the next level.
- We have a genuinely holistic Sixth Form Offer where we value enrichment, supporting you to get work experience and real-world experience in part-time employment and employer encounters. We aim to develop rounded, confident and employable young adults.
Sixth Form Latest News
Year 10 Sixth Form Taster Morning
It was great to welcome our Year 10 students to try out sixth form taster sessions and see the great facilities (and food!) available at King’s sixth form. If your Year 10 child was unable to attend the event, please complete the form below if they are interested in experiencing a similar event in the autumn term.
Our Sixth Form Open evening will be on Tuesday 12th November, 6 - 7.30pm. This will be a chance for you to find out more about the sixth form at King’s - please save the date.
Year 12 Induction
Afternoon
It was lovely to welcome our new Year 12 cohort during the afternoon of the 5th July. Students enjoyed great food and the opportunity to have a chat with their subject teachers while collecting their bridging work. If you child has applied to King’s sixth form but was unable to make this date please find the bridging work here
Sixth Form Biology Trip - Whipsnade Zoo
On Wednesday 3rd July, our A Level Biology students, accompanied by Mrs. Coles (Head of 6th Form) and Mr. Kent (Biology Teacher), went on our first ever Field Studies Course. The team at Whipsnade Zoo were fantastic and led us through a number of practical activities to investigate the impact of environmental factors on the local ecosystem. We were able to carry out investigations on Whipsnade’s Site of Special Scientific Interest, a legally protected zone where conservationists at the cutting edge of research helped us to take samples of the area and identify species present. This project will help our students complete one of the required practical's for the A Level Course.
We also had some time to look around the zoo, see a range of animals (a particular highlight was seeing a two-week-old giraffe calf) and learn more about the conservation efforts that the Zoological Society of London are involved in. As always, our students were an absolute credit to the school, and it was a pleasure to go with them.
We can’t wait to go on another field studies trip next year with our new Year 12 biology students.
Theme of the Week
This week we put the spotlight on our 6th Form Psychology class, with a particular focus on memory and how memories are created. Throughout the week, we have explored memory itself as well as sharing and hearing from different students and staff about their favourite memories from this year. It has been a reflective week as we move into the final weeks of term!
Cultural Week
This week we celebrated the different cultures we have in our school.
On Tuesday we had our culture dress day in which everyone wore their cultural dress. It was great fun and everyone thoroughly enjoyed it, including teachers! It was beautiful to see everyone dressed up and happy together.
On Wednesday we then had our bake sale and Year 7 cooking sessions, which also continued into Thursday. All money raised is going to Compassion UK.
During these cooking sessions, we made many different cuisines for example Indian, Egyptian, Mexican, Italian, Greek and Chinese. All the cuisines tasted amazing and were very thankful to the year 10s who helped the sessions to run smoothly.
On Friday to wrap everything up, during tutor, we conducted a quiz, which some students got sweet prizes! Year 12s also had a baking session to end this week off.
Overall, we had an amazing and colourful week celebrating many different cultures, as we were able to see and learn their traditions. We all really enjoyed it and hope everyone else had a fun time too.
Jasmine and Miriyam – Year 12.
Sixth Form Chemistry Trip
On Wednesday 19th June, our year 12 chemistry class had the opportunity to visit the University of Sussex for a hands-on practical day within the organic chemistry labs where we used a range of equipment that is regularly used by university students. The day reflected a similar timetable to which university students could have; we had a lecture in the morning by a lecturer from the organic chemistry department. It was really engaging and informative and mixed content from the A Level and beyond the specification. In the early afternoon, we worked for several hours within the practical labs with members of the chemistry department where we crystallised methyl-3-nitrobenzonate. After a short tour of the university, we attended a talk from the Astrochemistry department from Sussex where she showed us ground-breaking new research from their own pHd students. Overall, it was a wonderful experience and allowed us to experience what university life could be like at Sussex. The weather was lovely, and we also had the opportunity to explore the surroundings as Sussex lies nestled within the Downs.
Here are our chemists nitrating 1,2 dimethoxybenzene!
Find out more by...
- Reading our new Sixth Form Prospectus
- Viewing our Sixth Form Information Evening presentation
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