St Leonard's

Your day in the Sixth Form will centre around the Common Room.  School is open from 8am for Sixth Formers, so you can study, chat and get organised for your day.  The Sixth Form coffee shop sells a range of bacon and sausage sandwiches and hot drinks, iced coffees and freshly made smoothies,  as well as fruit,  waffles and yoghurt, if you would like to have breakfast at school. The Common Room has comfortable casual seating as well as a study area with tables. For quiet study during the day and in free periods, the well-stocked Sixth Form Library is always available. You can bring a laptop and your files and set yourself up in the library to collaborate with your friends in study groups or work alone on homework or independent research at the bank of desktop computers.  Laptops are freely available to keep, for eligible students (see the section on Bursary).

Tutor Groups are based in the Sixth Form block and ensure you have pastoral support each day.  You will be able to pick three friends to be in a tutor group with, at the start of Year 12. Every day of the week has a different activity in Tutor Time, from current affairs to assemblies and careers talks to volunteering. Lunch for Sixth Formers is served in your own space in the coffee shop, and hot food such as pizza wraps are popular, but you are also free to go into town or to a nearby café or even home for lunch.  Many students run or attend enrichment societies, or volunteer to help with younger pupils, running a board game club for those needing company at breaktime for instance.  

We consider learning how to manage free time a vital part of becoming an adult, so periods without taught lessons in the afternoon give you a taste of university-style freedom. Students on target with grades and attendance by October half-term are able to choose to leave site to work from home, or a library in town or the University Library.  You are trusted to make the decision to exercise or relax with friends if  you  have no timetabled afternoon classes.  Homework is very well-structured here, you will always be directed with precise instructions so you know exactly what to do, and the Curriculum section of our website will show you what you will study and when, during the course of the year.  While the school day ends at 3.20pm, students are welcome to stay in the building until 5pm to use computers and quiet study facilities, or to take up the offer of extra support from our amazing teachers. Daily life here is truly a pre-university environment, but on a small enough scale to make sure no-one goes under the radar.  

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