LAE (london academy of excellence) Stratford

-Food is great, relatively cheap (~2.40 for a full meal), and for examples I can tell you last week we had chicken katsu curry, kebabs, jacket potato, etc
-Yes
-Varies wildly depending on the day, check the website
-Literally 0 punishment for being late except it affects your attendance record, other than that they don't *really* care
-You get study periods after your December mocks if you drop a subject, if so it's six 50 minute sessions of frees per week
-Each lesson is 50 minutes long, with lots of doubles throughout your timetable
-This is a really subjective question since anyone answering only does 4 out of the many many A-levels offered, however in my own personal opinion the teaching is great and not fast-paced, instead focusing on understanding
-Again, homework depends on your subjects, but they'll never set too much and if you are being set too much you can always discuss it with your teachers and they'll likely set less so that you aren't swamped
-No amount of independent study is *required* (other than homework), just like at any school
-If you want more specifics about extracurriculars here you can reply to this message and specifically ask because there's a lot to say, but just know they're *really* good
-I take maths and philosophy, not much to really say about maths since, I mean, it's maths, not much can really change from GCSEs, but for philosophy I will say I really like the teaching department and the content is great. There are websites online where you can go through the content for philosophy, and if you like reading through the content you'll love the subject.
-EPQs start in the spring term I believe so you'll likely have dropped a subject, can't comment on the workload though since I haven't begun mine
-Most top sixth forms (NCS, LAE) don't offer CS at A-level since it isn't required for university admission, and the course itself isn't designed very well. We have societies centred around computer science, like the data analysis society, but for the most part you probably don't need to do any independent study anyways, since most unis assume you haven't taken the A-level. Don't take my word as fact though as I only took the GCSE and I'm not interested in studying it any further.
Hope this helped!

Thank you so much for your reply ! Can you tell me a bit more about philosophy and maths, like what the content is like and if there is a lot of content to remember, specifically dates/ names for philosophy and if philosophy has an essay style similar to gcse RE or different. What is the teaching like for maths and philosophy specifically? and is there anything bad or stuff you don't like about the school.

Thanks ! Are the assemblies compulsory? Also how often do you finish at around 12-3 or do you not?