WELCOME TO OUNDLE SIXTH FORM

Oundle School offers its pupils a broad and flexible programme of study for the Sixth Form. For the first time in your School career, you have the freedom to make your subject choices and thereby to mould your future from your individualised programme of study.

This is an exciting and privileged opportunity, which has the potential to translate to the most rewarding time of your years at the School. With this therefore comes the responsibility of choosing your options carefully and wisely, taking timely and targeted advice from those people who know you best and who are the most informed. Your Sixth Form choices will influence and affect your future career options, and are consequently of great importance.You cannot guarantee success, but you can do your best to ensure it by selecting subjects that you will enjoy and in which, where possible, you already have a good indication of ability.

I am delighted to be able to offer you a wide variety of principal subjects, which can be chosen in any combination, alongside a range of extension options that offer different experiences and challenges to engage all pupils. The following pages outline each of the courses and give you initial insight into how your learning will develop over the next two years.

Membership of the Sixth Form differs from your experiences in School to date. You will have lessons in a smaller number of subjects, in which the volume of work will be greater and the pace will be faster. The expectation for wider private reading and understanding will be much larger, and a commitment to regular independent study is therefore essential. With these freedoms comes responsibility, particularly in terms of managing your own workload, and having the maturity and self-direction to motivate yourself. In return, you will have access to much more individual assistance and guidance from your teachers, all subject specialists, in a dynamic and supportive learning environment.

Adam Baragwanath Deputy Head Academic