SIXTH FORM LIFE

Welcome to Trinity

Dear Students,

We are delighted that you will be joining Trinity for the next phase of your education.

I thought that you might be interested in getting to know the school a little better before you arrive.

I am very much looking forward to meeting those of you who are attending the induction days in July but am aware that some of you will not be here for those events.

For that reason I am sending you out this PowerPoint so that you can get a flavour of your new school.

With every good wish for success in your G.C.S.E exams

Yours sincerely,

Miss Keegan

Meet

our

Head, Dr

Doherty OBE, BA (Hons),

DPhil (Oxon), FRSA

Above he is pictured receiving his OBE from

Her Majesty the Queen

Students’ Comments

Every A level requires a consistent amount of work throughout the year, biology is no exception. Most students, including myself, originally worried about the amount of content in the course. However the solution to memorising biology content is just like any other subject, engagement in lessons and revision. Steady revision throughout the year is both encouraged and assisted by a network of support available to students either through the teachers themselves or their resources. This makes the course itself more enjoyable as you know you’re being supported by both your peers and your teachers”

Biology

Media When I first selected this subject I didn’t know what to expect, I hadn’t studied the subject at GCSE like

most students on the course and this was one of my biggest worries about the subject. However, after

the first couple of lessons my worries had disappeared because there are introduction lessons to the

subject that taught you everything you needed to know to study the subject at A Level. I enjoyed

studying this subject; my favourite part of the course was the coursework. For media you’ll have to

produce a video in groups of 3, everyone must take an individual role in the group. Making the video can

very fun especially when working in a group with your friends. My best advice for anyone that takes this

subject is to put effort into your homework because in this subject it will be mainly exams questions and

getting teachers feedback on it will help you to improve your work.

Business Studies I started at Trinity with no background in business as I had not done it for GCSE. I was a little nervous to

start as I was worried everyone else in the class would know a lot more than I did. However with the first

lesson I could tell that this would not be a problem! Business as a subject is very broad, from

management styles to the operations in a large company so you will never be bored with repeating

topics. At Trinity business is taught with an extremely open approach, which I enjoyed the most as it

includes discussions about relevant issues within the world and shows the impact that all of large

businesses would have on your life. If you do decide to pick Business I would highly advise you to make

revision materials as you go along, this will save you lots of time and leave you more time to do revision

at the end of the year!

Hope this is okay, have a lovely break,

It goes from the very big to the very small. Subatomic to galaxies and that is the reason why I chose it because I was keen on learning the nature and properties of matter and energy. It allows us to understand the fundamental reasons for how things work and why things move due to forces or charge. At first I thought the content might be a bit much to take on due to how much of it there is but,

with amazing teachers that explained it clearly and offer more help to you if you didn't understand something, the content was easy to learn. If you are to take physics I highly recommend that you have a strong understanding of maths because learning the equations and how to use them is half the subject. It is considered to be one of the hardest subjects however the teachers are excellent and will definitely help you every step of the way.

Physics

English Literature Compared to the GCSE English Literature course, the

AS course is much more intense as you will need to

study two plays (in my case Othello and Death of a

Salesman), one novel and one section from the

Literature B poetry textbook (in my case Tess Of the

D'Urbervilles and Tragedy by Thomas Hardy

respectively). Also the AS course does not include any

type of coursework or controlled assessment therefore

your grade will only depend on your finals in May/June.

I think the most enjoyable thing about the course as a

whole were the open debates on different

interpretations of the texts, which is probably what

make English classes completely different from other

classes like mathematics or science. Finally, it is very

important that you keep up with all your class work as

AS teachers do expect you to complete a lot of work

every week, and you won't have as much time at the

end of the year to revise as a class.

I wasn't quite sure what to expect at the beginning the A-Level course, it has been quite a step up from GCSE, whilst still

building on what I had already learnt. I found the course was sometimes quite challenging to understand but by spending a few extra hours on it became intuitive. I would definitely recommend taking a couple extra hours a week recapping what you have learnt and

making some revision resources, so that when the test comes up it is easy to look at what you need to know. Something I liked about the course is how the topics are connected making it easy to relate them to each other. It also gave me a better understanding to how the world around

you works, particularly when looking at many real world applications and problems.

Chemistry

Product DesignIn product design you will create a piece of coursework. This coursework requires product investigation, designing and making skills. At the end of the

school year you will sit an exam. My first worry of the course was how much coursework there is. The coursework is something that is challenging though is achievable as long as you work on it regularly. I enjoyed the

making processes most as you get to make a travel games set, in which you design and make each piece and the packaging- and holding it in the end is an amazing feeling. If you do pick this course my advice is to try to finish the

coursework early (which is not too hard in that the time you get is rather large), so that you can get advice on how to improve it- also for the exam, I recommend doing past papers.

Before the course started I was concerned about the level of commitment required to be successful in the subject and the amount of content there will be. But as the course began I felt that the majority of the content was fun to learn and not too hard to understand. I've enjoyed the practical lessons most as there's usually competition between the genders but also the teachers in lessons as most of the time they're happy to have a laugh with the class. The best advice I could give is to begin to revise the content as early as possible

and to apply yourself 100% to the mocks that the department do frequently, as well as the homework set as it can help a lot.

P.E.

St John’s Christmas Party

Every December, the students in Trinity Sixth Form host a Christmas Party for approximately 30 special needs pupils from St John’s RC School. Will you be our next Father Christmas?

Duke of Edinburgh Silver AwardSome of our Year 12 students embark on the challenging

D of E Silver Award.

Hooray for Hollywood…..

Past Students

Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Provision

Year 12 – Pastoral provision

To foster in students the self-awareness

and self-confidence that they need to face challenges,

both academic and personal

To create a caring

environment where

students are valued

and feel safe

To provide

opportunities for and

encourage students

to exercise individual

and social

responsibility

To ensure that each student has access

to personal, academic and

vocational guidance and support

To enable each student to fulfil their own potential both academically and

socially.

Pastoral care in

year 12 reflects

the transition

from children

to adults. Guardian Angels

Office duties

Registration Tutors

Career advisers

Chaplains

Academic monitoring

Silver DofE

MOOCS online courses

Induction days

Zero tolerance policy

Teaching, Learning and Curriculum Provision

Year 12 – Pastoral provision

Year 12

students

getting involved

Subject / Area

A team from NCS challenge came to talk to the

Yr12 about the opportunity to take part in the

summer and gain valuable skills and

experience to help their CV stand out.

Sixth Form students were offered the

opportunity to attend Mock interviews

conducted by members of the Rotary Club

Loughton

A number of Yr12 students have secured

places at top Universities to attend taster

courses such as “Medicine” at Bath University

HistoryExtra-curricular Activities

Holocaust Memorial Day

In January

Year 12 students

participate in Holocaust

studies at King Solomon

High School

Hampton Court

Every summer students

visit this Renaissance

palace to complement

their Tudor studies

Auschwitz-Birkenau

Concentration Camp

Every November two

students visit to

remember the

Holocaust

MusicExtra-curricular opportunities in Music

Our school ensembles provide music for the community as well as giving performances at school:

Students provide music to 3 nursing homes at Christmas.

Students from the Windband provide music

at the St Thomas of Canterbury Summer fete in June.

At least 120 students have been involved in a school concert at Christmas, Rock & Pop and in the Summer.

Rock & Pop Concert

Students sing at theRoyal Albert Hall for the Redbridge Schools Choral Festival

Gifted and Talented

An extensive range of Masterclasses has again been provided this academic year to add breadth and depth to

curriculum provision and stretch and challenge the able students.

These sessions have been delivered by both Trinity staff and external speakers.

Provision has included:

Science: Antimatter, Special Relativity, Medicine and Bioethics.

Maths: Year 7 Masterclasses: Engaging with Mathematics series. Students from Years 10, 11 and Sixth Form were

invited to help support the activities. Topics included work on Archimedes, Galileo and Isaac Newton.

English: Creative Writing, The Outsider in Comedy from Shakespeare to the Present Day, First World War Poetry,

Tackling Unseen Texts, American Dream & Literature and the Doppelganger and Victorian Literature.

History: The Reign of Mary Tudor, and Nazi Germany.

Other sessions include Law, Microbiology, Medicine, Geography, MFL and Public Relations.

Students’ response to these sessions have been extremely positive, some examples are below:

“It was beneficial as it went

into lots of details on the

outsiders in comedies,

with great examples,

which has helped my

understanding.”

“I really enjoyed finding

out about post humans

and cybrids. Also the idea

that there is the potential

for organs to be grown

from cells in labs, really

caught my interest.”

“The masterclass

unravelled

throughout, and by

the end my opinion

about Mary had

changed.”

“It was good to learn

new techniques to

change my writing and

improve it……….. It has

made me feel more

confident.”

Careers Information and Guidance

We are committed to providing our students with a programme of careers education, information, advice and guidance for all students in Year 8-13.

Learn through work by providing opportunities for students to learn through work experience or part time jobs and through enterprise activities in school.

Learn about work by providing opportunities for students to develop knowledge and understanding of work and enterprise through, trips and visits, interviews, courses and careers education, coaching, monitoring, and mock interviews.

Learning for work by developing skills for enterprise and employability through undertaking problem-solving activities, advocacy and debating.