Choosing Your Sixth Form

 

 

 

 

SIXTH FORM RECRUITMENT INCREASES THREEFOLD FOR SEPTEMBER 2010:

The BCS Sixth Form has expanded rapidly over the last 12 months - but much more important is that the advantages it offers to the individual Sixth Former have also altered dramatically. What are people looking for in a Sixth Form? Is it time for change?

This may be the most important choice of your life.  It may well, if you make the wrong choice, exclude you from your chosen career and limit you future job prospects.  At BCS we realise this, and we have placed huge emphasis on ensuring that our sixth form is different, is unique, prepares you effectively for today’s world and for the world you will face in the future, and our aim is to ensure that you reach the winning post first.  We make no apologies for this, we will give you a head start, and we will give you all the skills and experiences you will need to be the one who gets that university place first, who gets the job ahead of all the other candidates.  We will let you fly, and you will have fun doing so!

Is it a need for change that drives us, or something deeper? What do you think? The choices made at Sixth Form level are life changing and it's very important to think deeply about them.

There are many ways of pitching the merits of a sixth form - dazzling facilities, superlative enrichment programme, endless personalised support - but in the end one thing above all else matters deeply: the chance to develop a passion for learning, a love for your subject and the enthusiasm to share these with your friends and staff:

"Ever since I can remember I have delighted in discovering more about the world and how it works. I am passionate about Science and Mathematics and relish the opportunity to learn new techniques to apply to problems. I am intrigued by the way we have discovered more and more fundamental particles; first atoms, then electrons, protons and neutrons. Especially fascinating for me is the discovery that we cannot know exactly what happens below a certain level."  

One BCS sixth former writing the personal statement for their UCAS application, and perfectly capturing the spirit of a successful sixth form - fascination, discovery, a comfort with uncertainty. If this is a change in approach to learning, then it is a very welcome change and in itself justifies the sixth-form experience.

 

Do something different

Study the subjects that will serve you in your Higher Education and career - don't look for the soft options and trendy subjects. Try something different - a new sport (watersports, for example, there are amzing opportunities at BCS) or a new skill - whether it is rock percussion or cookery. Go where the crowd doesn't go: why wait for a gap year to visit the developing world and learn what it means to give rather than take? Ride the storm - or the elephant? Make a difference to others, and you'll never be the same again, and who wants to stay the same? It's your world, and it's waiting for you, and BCS is the right size to support you all as individuals while allowing you to combine in the teamwork that gives you the confidence to face up to challenge.

"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started . . . and know the place for the first time ."  (T.S. Elliot, Little Gidding, 1942)

Do you have the courage to do something different, to explore the world and yourself - and to know them for the first time?