hey, i actually have experience of moving to a different sixth form other then my own.
Just to start off, for my gcse and prior to them, i never really depended on teachers much, my learning was upto me.
I am currently in first year of sixth form, and at the start of the year i started off at the same school id been at since year 7. Teachers were beyond awful, facilities were to the bear minimum and i didnt enjoy it much, however many of my friends were there.
After about a week of attending, i was sitting in my free period, pretty unhappy and decided to email the admissinos teacher of a nearby grammar school which had a good reputation. Within a couple of hours i got a reply asking for grades etc. Once i sent these i got a phone call, and the teacher was making sure i was serious as she was very impressed with my grades and then asked me which subjects i wanted to take and soon after it got sorted, and i got asked to start school tmrw.
Lets pause here for a while.
This moment was hands down, one of the weirest times of my life, i was happy yet confused. Had this really just happened? Had i just decided to leave all my friends? It was really confusing.
That night was hard, i had to explain to all my mates why i was leaving and apart from a couple who didnt want me to leave at all, the rest were understadning of the situation and wished me best luck.
So the next day i was off to my new school.
In short:
this school was very good, facilities very good etc.
Teachers - this was dissipionting, they were not good enough, a couple were good, but rest were really bad.
i knew about 5/6 people from this school and only one of them was in some of my lessons. I persoanlly think im quite sociable, im very confident and im happy with who i am. However making freidns was very hard, very hard. Why? becuase it is a sixth form, in a sixth fomr people have formed frienships groups from year 7 and onwards. I did end up amking a few freinds in first few dasy, all of which were externals.
Here is the twist, on the foruth day which was a friday i had little intention of leaving, i wasnt extremly happy but hopeufl things would become better. ON this fourth day i went back to my old school before school finisedh as i had a free last, i was supposed to meet up with friends and eat out. I also thought it would be a good chance to return some of the school textbooks i was given, so i went to the office about 25 minutes beofre the end of the school dya for them, and there i saw the headteacher, i tried my best not to be seen, not sure why, but he saw me. He politely asked me to come to his office, and so i did, afterall he was a great headteacher. He had about a 30 minute converstions about how he was dissipionted in me and that he really wants me to come back. The truth was i left becuase of the teachers, however i couldnt say this to him, so i said i had to leave due to personal reasons, he insisted i come back, and expalining how i was one of the birghtest students he had seen during his time as teacher ( buttering me up , ahah), but i said i wouldnt be coming back, the convo ended with him saying, ' whenever you want to come back, wether its next week, next month or next year, the years of this school will always be open for you' , over this weekedn i talked to my freidns and family about many things and came to the ocnlcudion i should come back.
I came back, things were bakc to normal.
Jump to now.
Looking back at my decision....
im not sure wether it was the right one, i am 100% if i styaed at other school i woudlve started revsiiong before chritmas, and would have been much more focused. At this shcool i am relaxed, in fact i have my AS exams in a montha nd only started revsiiong last night.
hope you make the right choice.