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Principal’s Welcome Dear friends, We are now almost halfway through the academic year and although the winter weather is still with us as I write this, it’s already time for our Spring Newsletter! We certainly had a wonderful run up to Christmas at Blackpool Sixth with a series of brilliant music, drama and dance performances. You can see some of the pictures from these excellent events on page 6. We have also been fortunate to have had lots of inspiring and thought-provoking talks recently for our students kindly provided by guest speakers such as Colin Parry OBE and Sylvia Lancaster OBE. We feel that it’s hugely important that our students benefit from the expertise, wisdom and insight of those who have achieved great things through hard work, determination and vision. We were also delighted by the Outstanding grade achieved by the Fylde Coast Teaching School’s initial teacher training programme of which we are a key part. Helping to develop teachers and educational leaders of the future is something we are proud to work on along with our partners across the region and beyond. We are also incredibly proud, as ever, of the achievements of our students. As the article below details, our exam results from the summer have once again led to us retaining our status as the Fylde Coast’s leading provider of A levels and BTECs. We are looking forward to celebrating the achievements of our current upper sixth students who will complete their courses in June. Best wishes for the rest of 2018! Jill Gray Principal
Number one in the Fylde again! Students and staff at Blackpool Sixth celebrated further success in the 16 to 18 performance tables published in January. We are now number one on the Fylde coast across all schools and colleges on the key measure of students’ best three A levels. We are also top of the table on students’ progress in applied general qualifications (mainly BTECs) These two measures, once again, make us the best post 16 provider for A level and BTEC across the Fylde coast.
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