SIXTH FORM STUDENT GUIDE 2018

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Sixth Form Student Guide Drama Drama plays an important part in the extra-curricular life of the school. We aim to stage several major productions each year and all students are welcome to get involved. Rehearsals take place directly after school and often on Sundays. There are also regular evenings of Drama and Music, usually at the end of the Christmas and Summer Terms. Students have taken part in some fantastic recent musical productions including ‘Little Shop of Horrors’, ‘Into the Woods’, ‘Les Miserables’ and ‘Sister Act’. Evenings theatre visits are organised and open to all pupils. Individual and pair peripatetic LAMDA tuition is available from Grade 1 to Gold Medal in a variety of disciplines for all Year groups. 24
Sixth Form Student Guide Reports and Grades Effort and Attainment Grades will be given Lower Sixth : October, December, Easter. Upper Sixth : October, December, Easter. Reports will be given Lower Sixth :February Upper Sixth : September (after AS results), January (This information can alter with changes to examination dates.) There will also be Mock Examinations after Christmas in the Lower and Upper Sixth and a Mock Results Day in January. Parents’ Evenings occur once a year. However, your parents are welcome to contact the School at any time if they have concerns or questions. Why is it relevant to Sixth Form? Your entry into Sixth Form life will probably be the first time you will have the opportunity to organise your own study periods around the demands of your subject teachers, extracurricular activities, House responsibilities, duties etc. The apparent freedom of being in the Sixth Form needs to be handled with care. The pressure of completing work to the required standard in time to enter for examinations in June should not be underestimated. Those who cope best with this pressure are those who work consistently hard from the word go. It is all too easy to get into bad habits. For example, don’t assume that late work is acceptable just because few teachers give out immediate detentions to Sixth Form. If you often hand your work in late or you often arrive late for your lesson you will get poor effort grades even if the work itself is of a reasonable standard. If you think about it you cannot be making a satisfactory effort if either of these two criteria apply. Handing in late work is extremely irritating for your teacher who will mark more efficiently and fairly given an entire set at once and who has many other classes to teach. Late work does not allow your teacher to give prompt feedback to the class and destroys continuity of your lessons. Late arrival disrupts or delays teaching for the rest of the group. Arriving five minutes late for every lesson in just one subject loses 10 hours spread over the year (and that assumes just 30 teaching weeks per year). In your working life you will find that few people tolerate sloppy timekeeping, so start developing good organisational skills now. Learn to prioritise in order to complete all work on time and once it is finished don’t forget to hand it in! If you are already good at this sort of thing then keep up the good work. 25
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