The Latymer Diploma

We hope every Sixth Form student will qualify for the Latymer Diploma that recognises personal development, contribution and achievements both academic and cocurricular and so reflects the Learner Profile.

Why a Diploma? Our aspiration is, in line with the Learner Profile, that Latymer students are ‘academic, rounded and grounded’. The Latymer Diploma is a relatively flexible instrument that serves as: • a record and evidence of the ways in which individual students have built towards the Latymer Learner

Profile (and so are academic, rounded and grounded); • a formal acknowledgement of the academic, rounded and grounded education they have experienced; • a way to make the Latymer Sixth Form offer distinctive; • a way to enhance university applications both here and abroad; and • a route through for both the strongly academically inclined and theless academically inclined whilst also requiring a certain balance. (This in part because the diploma acknowledges the worth and utilityof co curricular activities and other aspects – service, leadership, commitment etc.)

Scope and minimum requirements The Diploma reflects school experience and achievement in the Sixth Form.

The minimum Sixth Form requirement is successful completion of the Core plus a Learning Journal and a range of additional ‘credits’ reflecting academic and co-curricular aspects. In addition to the Core we expect a minimum of SIX credits, of which a minimum of two should be academic and one co-curricular. A typical scale of credits is below:

Typical scale of credits For elective courses: • 1 unit elective = 1 credit • Latymer Research Report = 1 credit • Publicly examined courses (EPQ, AS, fourth A Level) will be appropriately credited with 2 or 3 credits

For co-curricular activities: • Extra service (including Round Square or School

International Service) = 1 credit • School representation: regular sports team, Drama,

Music, Debating, MUN, etc. = 1 credit • Key Leadership roles = E.g. Prefect, Round Square

Committee, Captain of Sports Team, School Council, and similar = 1 credit • Extra–curricular activity (regular commitment to a club over two terms or equivalent) = 1 credit • World Challenge/Duke of Edinburgh silver/gold = 1 or 2 credit(s) Six credits is a minimum requirement that every Sixth Form student should be able to achieve. Of course, many, probably most, will do more than the minimum and we reflect that by acknowledging up to three different levels of Diploma – Pass, Merit, Distinction.