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Additional Support
University and Careers Guidance
The University and Careers Guidance Counsellors are available to students, staff and parents who
are looking for information regarding all matters relating to further education. The Counsellors
also manage an extremely busy university college visits programme and contribute to the PSHCE
programme. Students intending to apply to universities in the US can also sit the SAT and PSAT
examinations at the College.
Learning Support
The Senior School offers individual programmes for students with a diagnosed Specific Learning
Difficulty, and provision for students who may require learning support at some point during their
academic studies.
All provision is aimed at supporting the individual student’s specific learning needs and is crosscurricular
wherever possible. Student support is often through individual or small group withdrawal
systems, but is also carried out through support teachers by creating effective learning strategies to
help remove barriers to learning in mainstream classes.
College Guidance Counsellor
The College Guidance Counsellor is available to children, parents and staff to provide counselling
and advice as needed. The Counsellor also supports the PSHCE programme and provides guidance
throughout the College.
English as an Additional Language (EAL)
Given that English is the language of instruction at the College across most of the curriculum, it is
important that students develop a high level of competence in it. For those Year 7 to Year 9 students
in need of assistance, placement is offered in one of two support programmes:
• Withdrawal from Modern Foreign Language class for three periods of dedicated EAL tuition
a week
• Withdrawal from Modern Foreign Language for dedicated EAL tuition plus withdrawal from
mainstream English lessons to undertake a ‘sheltered’ English curriculum. The sheltered
English curriculum is based on the mainstream English curriculum but abbreviated and
taught using materials and methodology appropriate for EAL learners.
The principal aims of EAL tuition are:
• To help students learn the English language
• To help students learn in English.
The College believes in equity of entitlement, whatever a student’s ethnic and linguistic background,
and so, except for the provisions detailed above, EAL students will follow a regular timetable and
attend regular classes.
Moreover, it is intended that, subject to sufficient progress being made in the acquisition of English,
as measured by both formal and informal assessment, non-native English speakers will exit support
programmes in order to study the full academic curriculum by Year 10 and sit associated IGCSE
examinations in Year 11.
In the case of a student not having the required level of proficiency to study a mainstream English
curriculum in Years 10 and 11, the College will offer the IGCSE English as a Second Language course
and examination.
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