Welcome

Your timing couldn’t be better!

New Headmaster, new Sixth Form centre, new multi-activity centre, record numbers – as Shiplake College enters its seventh decade you’ll be joining a Sixth Form at a school which has never been in better shape.

Sixth Form at Shiplake is a positive co-educational experience within a tight-knit community that embodies the core values of the school – inclusive, individual, and inspirational. It offers a truly holistic education fuelled by aspiration and ambition and develops young people with a genuine sense of purpose.

The core of a Shiplake education is first-rate academic provision. The Sixth Form offers an impressive breadth of curriculum options, which guarantee genuine choice and small class sizes. Excellent teaching complements quality bespoke careers advice spanning the various avenues of university and the growing world of apprenticeships.

But we will do a lot more than that because an all-round education which shapes character is as much, if not more, about what happens outside the classroom. In a stunning setting, a unique and extensive co-curricular programme offers participation for the many and excellence for the elite.

This was improved further in September 2020 with the opening of The Davies Centre, a multi-activity centre which incorporates a state-of-the-art boathouse, fitness suite, twostorey climbing wall, an indoor archery and rifle range, and enhanced facilities for our comprehensive outdoor education programme. Moreover, the highly anticipated Sixth Form Centre has opened, providing an ideal space for girls and boys from both Year 12 and 13 to socialise and work together. This is already proving a roaring success.

Yet, some things remain the same - above all, it is the people who give Shiplake its magic. For this reason, while we are a selective school what is far more important is the sort of person you are.

We want you to bring your own magic to school and take advantage of the exceptional teaching and abundance of opportunities – if you do, you will find that Shiplake College has the power to be transformational.

Mr Tyrone Howe, Headmaster