Something Unexpected

• Excellent results, massive value-added each year for every student
• New and comfortable sixth form centre with internet cafe, coffee bar, large common room, various study rooms all with networked computers
• A fully multicultural sixth form with students from 32 different countries in the school
• Day and boarding pupils in the sixth form
• All sixth formers have career mentors from outside the school; a unique opportunity to get ahead of the game and to ensure first choice university entry
• A university professor works with all sixth form students to support them with their UCAS applications or applications to universities abroad
• Extensive careers advice, a full enrichment programme each week which includes numerous talks from a range of professionals, famous and successful persons, community workers, university tutors, international sportsmen, TV personalities and others; the programme also offers our students many work experience opportunities.
• Regular trips and numerous conferences attended.  The New York sixth form trip is always popular.
• Regular sports matches.  Our sports department includes the West Hants/BCS tennis academy, a badminton academy with an international coach, basketball coaching from an ex Russian professional and international, rowing with a world championship rower, and a department that includes all major team sports with a staff team who currently play top level sport and some who coach at the very highest level.  In addition we offer talks from international sportspersons and sports psychologists for all BCS sixth formers, not only those interested in sport.
• Performing arts and music rocks at BCS!  If you want to perform, if you want to be on the stage, if you enjoy playing in top concert halls, if you want to join in on modern film and media: then BCS is for you!  There are so many opportunities to enjoy, whatever you level.
• A new art facility is being established to further enhance and support the excellent art department at BCS.
• Our Oxbridge programme has proved highly successful and most enjoyable; it is a popular course at BCS.
• Our sixth formers are allowed off site during the day, but the sixth form staff monitor this in order to ensure that students are up to date with their work.  A current Year 13 student said: “I really like the mix of freedom and supervision I get at BCS.  We can be normal young adults and we can chill out off site, but we know that if we are behind or struggling with our work then we will be required to catch up first.  I have found that this means I am always up to date, and therefore I have more time on the weekends to have fun, without worrying about work I haven’t completed.  The school based set up, with college based aspects, really works well for all of us.  We are treated as adults here, but when we need a shoulder to cry on a member of staff is always available to comfort us and to help us to plan our workload.  The way BCS runs the sixth form means I made the transition from GCSE much easier than many of my friends who went to other sixth forms. I think many of them regret not having my type of sixth form. “