i am on year 11 & i am starting to think about good sixth forms to go to in london , i live in north london and don’t mind travelling. i want to study biology, chemistry, politics & sociology does anybody have any recommendations pls ?
The Henrietta Barnett School in Hampstead is very good academically and has a sixth form - I have a friend who goes there. Edit - it's a grammar school.
i am on year 11 & i am starting to think about good sixth forms to go to in london , i live in north london and don’t mind travelling. i want to study biology, chemistry, politics & sociology does anybody have any recommendations pls ?
The Henrietta Barnett School in Hampstead is very good academically and has a sixth form - I have a friend who goes there. Edit - it's a grammar school.
Went there for a Model UN debate weekend once and found it pretty decent
Wait. So you don't go there, but on the basis of visiting it for an event, you're going to recommend it?
I definitely wouldn't say Woodhouse is bad. Far from it. I would say it is average to good. What you have to bear in mind is that Barnet has a lot of very middle class people and a lot of high performing schools. This leads to generally good students being in the cohorts at a place like Woodhouse - and historically (and I mean 25+ years ago) it was really highly rated. This is no longer the case, and when people say Woodhouse is excellent, this is generally a result of believing everything that Woodhouse says about itself.
The results are not really reflective of their boasts of being one of the best VI Forms in the country - and they do use a lot of snakey words and phrases when it comes to their results. Their average grade is a B-, bear that in mind given that they ask for 6s and 7s in the subjects you want to do to get in in the first place. They also have -ve value added scores which is kind of borne out in that they generally take in middle class kids with good GCSEs and turn out middle class kids with ok-to-good A levels. As far as VI Forms go, it isn't appreciably better than some rather more challenged schools in the area.
The main selling point of Woodhouse is that it is a VI College rather than a school in an upscale area, generally quite safe and with a student body that is fairly crime and trouble-averse. If you're a decent student, you should get more or less what you expect - just don't go in thinking it's a grades machine.
Wait. So you don't go there, but on the basis of visiting it for an event, you're going to recommend it?
I definitely wouldn't say Woodhouse is bad. Far from it. I would say it is average to good. What you have to bear in mind is that Barnet has a lot of very middle class people and a lot of high performing schools. This leads to generally good students being in the cohorts at a place like Woodhouse - and historically (and I mean 25+ years ago) it was really highly rated. This is no longer the case, and when people say Woodhouse is excellent, this is generally a result of believing everything that Woodhouse says about itself.
The results are not really reflective of their boasts of being one of the best VI Forms in the country - and they do use a lot of snakey words and phrases when it comes to their results. Their average grade is a B-, bear that in mind given that they ask for 6s and 7s in the subjects you want to do to get in in the first place. They also have -ve value added scores which is kind of borne out in that they generally take in middle class kids with good GCSEs and turn out middle class kids with ok-to-good A levels. As far as VI Forms go, it isn't appreciably better than some rather more challenged schools in the area.
The main selling point of Woodhouse is that it is a VI College rather than a school in an upscale area, generally quite safe and with a student body that is fairly crime and trouble-averse. If you're a decent student, you should get more or less what you expect - just don't go in thinking it's a grades machine.
someones got a bit of a chip on their shoulder hahahaha