London Academy of Excellence (LAE) Stratford

1) Don't do lit so can't help there but I'm pretty sure we have the texts we study on the website?
2) Yes we do, food is really cheap (~2.40 for a full meal) and tastes great
3) You don't get frees until you drop a subject in january, once you do you get 6 50 minute sessions of frees throughout the week
4) You can leave at break and lunch, otherwise the time we finish varies everyday, you can check the website for more info on this
5) Yep always free seats
Bare in mind for 2 and 5 by the time you enrol in the school we'll be in an entirely new state of the art building so all of the facilities will be greatly improved. For general advice I'll just copy paste what I've said in a previous thread:
Honestly (trying to minimise my bias here), I think LAES is the best sixth form in the country. In terms of grades, we're second only to Brampton (barely), and beyond that we have some of the best extracurricular opportunities (e.g. I travelled to Eton with my form class, I'm already on a few Oxbridge programs etc). Additionally, the people here are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet, and there's a lot of support in terms of mental health. The school focuses on making sure that you push yourself, but always keeps your wellbeing in mind (for example, if we ever spend more than a few hours on homework they'll tell us to stop and take a break, and the teacher will try to reduce the amount that they set). Moreover, while they focus on pushing you academically, there's a lot of support outside of the curriculum to make sure that you're informed on where you want to go post-sixth form, and what career you want to pursue. A great example of this is our futures assemblies we have once a week, where we have companies like Meta (Facebook) and VLK (Banking firm) come in to give talks about what it is they do and what a career at their company would entail. They also have great partnerships with lots of firms (e.g. Law) to get students work experience in Year 12. There's infinitely more I could say but I feel like you get the point.

Hi, I'm a year 11 who's thinking of going to LAE Stratford and I have some questions for any students that went/goes there.
- For english lit what books/poems/plays are studied and what is the coursework like?
-Is there a canteen with hot meals, and what sort of food is there and the costs of it ?
-How many frees do you get?
-What time are you allowed to leave the school?
-Are there always free seats in the library?
Thank you and also if anyone has any general comments or advice about this school, outside of my questions please give me any info you can, thanks !!

Thank you so much this is really helpful !! Also, going back to 3, if you choose not to drop a subject,does this mean you get no frees? I want to do maths,english,physchology and then either FM or philosophy, so if you do any of these subjects, how hard would you say they are in terms of content,workload and exam questions, and just any other info about them.

Hi. I can answer your English question. The texts we do are the post 2000s poetry anthrology (year 12), the modernism anthology (year 13), the importance of being earnest (year 12), othello (year 13) and we compare a thousand splendid suns to tess of the d'urbervilles (year 12). For coursework, we do the great gatsby and have an option of texts like a streetcar named desire or you can propose a text of your own (as long as you can make a valid comparison). In my coursework, i'm comparing Gatsby to Streetcar on the topic of "patriarchy and gender politics," and I really love my coursework, considering you can choose your question. The English department is really lovely here, just saying!

Thanks !! And since the exams are open book, does this mean you can have an annotated copy, or does it have to be plain text. Also would you say its better to read the books/plays before hand like in the summer before yr12, or just read it for the first time in class.