Kendrick School welcomes new students into its Sixth Form and prospective entrants into Year 12 for September 2026 are invited to attend our Sixth Form Open Evening on Wednesday 12th November 2025.

We are a state funded selective school and offer a 3 or 4 AS/A level pathway in the Sixth Form in the following subjects (dependent on staffing and student numbers):

Art & Design ● Biology ● Chemistry ● Classical Civilisation ●Computer Science ● Economics ● English Literature ● French ● Geography ● German ● History ●Latin ●Mathematics ● Further Mathematics ● Music ● Physical Education ●Physics ● Philosophy ● Sociology ● plus the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ)

There are two sessions: Session 1: 4pm to 5.30pm for existing Kendrick students and their parents only and Session 2: 5.00pm to 6.30pm for external Year 11 students and their parents. The first hour is a tour of the school and a chance to visit the subject departments. The session will finish with a talk from the Headteacher, Head of Sixth Form and current Sixth Form students. Entry for Session 2 is by ticket only.

As tickets are limited, this event is for Year 11 students and one parent only. For safeguarding purposes, adults cannot attend without a Year 11 child. Year 11 students can attend without a parent. We ask that Year 11 students wear their school uniform please.

The subject areas will open at 5pm and close promptly at 6pm. Please allow adequate time for your visit.

Tickets will be available via TicketSource below 5pm on Monday 20th October:                   

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/kendrick-school

In the meantime, please click on the link below to view a video made by our Kendrick School Leaders about why you should consider Kendrick School Sixth Form as an option for your A Level studies. 

Kendrick School Sixth Form

Year 12

Four A-Level Pathway

• 4 A-Level subjects
• Personal Development, Enrichment and Physical Education

Three A-Level Pathway

• 3 A-Level subjects
• Personal Development, Enrichment and Physical Education

In Term 4, the Extended Project Qualification will be launched and in Term 5, the AS Further Mathematics course will be launched and students will have the option to include these in their timetables. They may wish to consider their Curriculum Pathway plans for Year 13 at this time.

Year 13

Four A-Level Pathway

• 4 A-Level subjects (plus the EPQ in exceptional circumstances)
• Personal Development, Enrichment and Physical Education

Three A-Level Pathway

• 3 A-Level subjects (carrying on from Year 12 or having discontinued one subject after the AS examination or having decided to take one AS examination at the end of Year 13)
• The EPQ or AS Further Mathematics may also be taken
• Personal Development, Enrichment and Physical Education

In particular where the three A-Level pathway is chosen, it is expected that students will consider an opportunity to include additional elements to their timetable such as being a Pastoral or Departmental Prefect; outreach work with local schools; sporting or musical commitments; or undertaking a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in an area of particular interest. These opportunities are also available for students on the four A-Level Pathway but time will naturally be more limited. 

Art & Design
Biology
Chemistry
Classical Civilisation
Computer Science
Economics
English Literature
Extended Project Qualification (EPQ)
French
Further Mathematics
Geography
German
History
Latin
Mathematics
Music
Philosophy
Physical Education
Physics
Sociology

It is important to note that some of these courses will only be available subject to staffing and student numbers.

The over-subscription criteria will be applied if the number of applicants with a points score of 54 or above exceeds the available number of places. Places will always be offered to internal applicants before external applicants.

The offers to external candidates will be made as follows:

1. The applicant is a looked after child or previously looked after child
2. The permanent home address of the applicant is within Priority Area 1 or 2 of the designated area of the school on 31st August 2026 and they should still be living there at the time of admission to the school and the applicant is a Pupil Premium or Service Premium child. Documentary evidence that the child is in receipt of Pupil Premium or Service Premium will be requested from the current school.
3. The applicant’s home address is within Priority Area 1 or Priority Area 2 of the designated area of the school and this home address is the permanent address of the parent/carer and the applicant on 31st August 2026 and they should still be living there at the time of admission to the school.
4.  Applicants whose home address is NOT in the designated area of the school

Please read the information on our website here about our designated area. It is extremely unlikely we would offer a place to an applicant outside our designated area as we are always heavily oversubscribed with applicants who live in Priority Area 1 or 2. 

As outlined in our admission policy, we will only invite applicants to consultation in March who are currently living in the designated area unless the family are crown servants or in the British Armed Forces and are moving to the area for work purposes. Therefore to be invited to consultation the applicant (the student) must be living permanently in our designated area by February/March 2026. More information on what is deemed to be a permanent address can be found here, along with information on temporary addresses and multiple properties.

For more information, please read our admission policy for entry into  Year 12 in September 2026.

Please consider this before coming to our open event. 

The GCSE entry criteria below apply equally to internal and external applicants.

For entry into Kendrick School Sixth Form, applicants will normally have to satisfy the following minimum conditions:

• 8 GCSEs (or DfE recognised equivalent) grades 9-5 or A* - B, two of which must be English Language and Mathematics.
• BTEC Level 2 at Distinction*, Distinction or Merit will be accepted
• GCSE short courses cannot be accepted.
• At least a 6 or grade B at GCSE in the subjects to be studied at AS/A-level, apart from Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics which requires a 7 or grade A at GCSE.
• Grade A or 7 or above in the Higher Tier is an entry requirement for Mathematics and/or Science AS/A level courses. Students who have taken Foundation Tier GCSE courses in Mathematics and Sciences (rather than Higher Tier) are unlikely to have covered all the appropriate topics from which they can move on to A-level in the context of this school.
• Students who wish to study Further Mathematics must achieve at Grade A* or 9-8 in GCSE Mathematics.
• Students would normally be expected to have studied GCSE in subjects they wish to study at A-level. In the case of Classical Civilisation, Economics, Philosophy and Sociology where the subjects may not have been studied at GCSE level, Grade B or 6 in English Literature and a Humanity would be required as a minimum condition of entry to the course.
• Students living overseas at the time of application and not taking GCSE courses must provide evidence of the equivalence of their externally taken qualifications to GCSE by an official organisation (for example NARIC).
• Students who are Home Schooled will be asked to provide a reference and predicted GCSE grades from a professional body. In the absence of a reference they may be asked to sit mock GCSE examinations at Kendrick School.

The application form will be available below.

The address that you enter on the application must be your current home address. 

Existing Kendrick students do not need to complete this application form.

The deadline for applying is midnight on Friday 16th January 2026.  We accept late applications but please read the information below on how these will be dealt with.

Applications received after the deadline will be treated as late applications but will be considered if submitted by 1st September 2026. Late applications are those which are received after the closing date (16^th January 2026) and so cannot be considered with the “gathered field” of on-time applications. (See Treatment of Applications section.)

Late applicants will be added to the Waiting List in order according to their ranking as determined by their predicted GCSE scores. (See sections on “Treatment of Applications” and “Waiting List”). However, due to the number of on-time applications received, late applications will not be processed at this stage.