LIFE AS A STUDENT AT

HOLMES CHAPEL SIXTH FORM CENTRE

 

Whilst learning is obviously our priority, life as a student in our Sixth Form has its other benefits as well, these include:

 

Team Building Events/ Residential

 

Team Building events occur regularly throughout the year and include Autumn Inter-Tutor tournaments, Summer Alternative Olympics, Charity and numerous Social events organised by the Student Leadership Team.

 

In addition to this, the big event of the year is the residential experience offered to Year 11 students who have been offered a place and all year 12 students.

This takes place in July 2009. It is usually based at an outdoor/indoor activity centre and has been at the Conway Centre in North Wales, the PGL centres in Paris and Shropshire and the Kingswood centres on the Isle of Wight and the Peak District. Details of our next big residential will follow soon…

Extra Curricular Activities

A number of extra-curricular opportunities exist at Holmes Chapel Sixth Form Centre. These include:

• Whole school dance/drama/musical productions (recentlyEvening of Dance, ‘Return to the Forbidden Planet’, ‘Oliver’ and currently ‘Grease’)
• Musical instrument tuition and concerts
• Sporting clubs (as members of a team or leading lower school groups)
• Afri-twin (twinning with a school in South Africa)
• Annual Ski-trip
• Gifted and talented summer school
• Community service (e.g. work as a teaching assistant)
• Student Leadership Team (see separate sheet)
• Sixth Form development teams
• After school ICT GCSE lessons
• Theatre trips (organised by the English and Arts faculties but open to all)
• Study visits, lecture tours, fieldwork and residential workshops in a variety of subjects

Facilities

Students at Holmes Chapel Sixth Form College have the following facilities at their disposal for relaxation and self-supported study purposes:

• The Sixth Form Study Area in the Sixth Form Centre. This has

A kitchen area with kettle, fridge, toaster & microwave

Comfy chairs and tables to work

Sole use by Sixth Form students

12 computers with internet access and printers

• The Sixth form Quiet Study Area in the Sixth Form Centre for those students who really need to concentrate
• The Sixth Form Bistro (a separate part of the main dining building for sole use by Sixth Form) which serves food, drinks and snacks from 9.30 and for the rest of the day

• The Learning Resource Centre (LRC) and the Sixth Form Learning Resource room (which includes library, A level reference books and computer facilities) when not booked by  lower school classes
• All teaching rooms when not used for lessons (particularly M9 which is a designated Sixth Form Study Room when not in use); a ‘free room timetable’ is available in the Sixth Form Common Room and inside the door of the LRC.
• Sporting facilities for sole use for 6th form recreational sports at designated times in the timetable, with the support of a member of the PE faculty
• The Fitness Suite at a reduced rate for Sixth Form Students
• The Connexions room (based in the lower school)
• A separate careers library in the Sixth Form centre