Sixth Form Admission

ENTRY INTO YEAR 12 IN SEPTEMBER 2024

The deadline for applying for place in Year 12 in September 2024 was midnight Friday 19th January 2024. Please see how late applications are dealt with below. However, as we have received an overwhelming amount of on-time applications, any late applications will not be processed at this stage.

ENTRY INTO YEAR 12 IN SEPTEMBER 2024

Open Event - Thursday 9th November 2023 

Prospective entrants into Year 12 for September 2024 are invited to attend our Sixth Form Open Evening on Thursday 9th November 2023. There are two sessions : 

SESSION 1: 5.00pm to 6.30pm 

SESSION 2: 6.00pm to 7.30pm

Each session will start with a tour of the school and a visit to subject areas and finish with a talk from the Headteacher and Head of Sixth Form. The subject areas will close 5 minutes before the talks starts at 6pm and 7pm. Please allow enough time to visit the subjects you are interested in. You will not be able to go back to the subject areas once the talks has finished. 

There is no parking on the school site unless you have a registered disability and a blue badge.

Entry to the school is via the East Street entrance.

Entry it by ticket ONLY. Please only book ONE ticket per family. Each ticket will admit up to 3 people. We cannot admit more than 3 people per ticket due to safeguarding and health and safety reasons. 

Tickets will be available below. ONLY BOOK ONE TICKET PER FAMILY WHICH WILL ADMIT 3 PEOPLE. IF YOU ARE STUDENTS COMING WITHOUT FAMILY, PLEASE BOOK ONE TICKET FOR THREE OF YOU. This will enable more people to attend.

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Curriculum Pathways 

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. 

Subjects at A Level 

Designated Area 

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 2024 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 2024 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 very 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. Therefore to be invited to consultation the applicant (the student) must be living permanently in our designated area by March 2024. 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 2024.

Please consider this before coming to our open event. 

Entry Requirements 

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.

Key Dates  

What When
Open Evening Thursday 9th November 2023
Online application opens Friday 10th November 2023
Deadline for receipt of applications Friday 19th January 2024
Deadline for receiving school references
(requested by Kendrick School)
Friday 2nd February 2024
Consultation meetings Wednesday 21st February 2024
Provisional offers made by Friday 8th March 2024
Deadline for accepting offer Friday 15th March 2024
Sixth Form Induction Day (compulsory) Thursday 27th June 2024
GCSE Results Day Thursday 22nd August 2024
Sixth Form Registration day (compulsory) Friday 23rd August 2024
Start of Term 1, 2024/2025 Wednesday 4th September 2024

How to Apply (External Applicants Only)
 

The deadline for applying for a place in year 12 in September 2024 was midnight Friday 19th January 2024. You can submit a late application but please see how late applications are dealt with below. However, as we have received an overwhelming amount of on-time applications, any late applications will not be processed at this stage.

Kendrick School Sixth Form Online Application Form

Late Applications (received after the deadline of Friday 19th January 2024) 

Applications received after the deadline will be treated as late applications but will be considered if submitted by 1st September 2024. Late applications are those which are received after the closing date (19th January 2024) 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” outlined in the Admission Policy for Entry into Year 12 in September 2024). However, as we have received an unprecedented amount of online applications, we will not be processing late applications at this stage.