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Teaching & Learning
The Sixth Form
Increasingly, our Year 11 Students are choosing to remain members of our community
beyond the age of 16 by joining the Sixth Form at Holy Family
Technology College.
The main advantages of this system are that the students remain in a Christian environment and that their education is not interrupted by changing institutions part way through. Also students may be sitting their first module examinations in January, and it is easier for them to prepare without having to settle in elsewhere. A recent and steadily increasing trend is the recruitment of students from other schools to our Sixth Form.
Our Sixth Form is a comprehensive one. We provide a wide range of courses,
including 20 at A level, which will further develop students’ talents,
skills and
understanding.
Our A Level point scores continue to rise each year. The vast majority of our A Level Sixth Form students go on to gain good University Places.
Advanced Level qualifications:
These are two-year courses leading to ‘A’ Level examinations.
The first year students study Advanced subsidiary courses and are examined.
The second year students study A2 courses and are examined. The scores from
the two levels are added together to form A Level qualifications.
Applied GCSEs:
A package of three subjects – Business, ICT and Leisure and Tourism
– are studied along with English and Mathematics to give students the
opportunity to gain 8 GCSEs at the end of the year to enable them to proceed
to Applied A Level or other Level 3 courses.
The range of Applied GCSE courses is expanding and the College will continue to increase the choice of courses on offer to students.
Details of the Examination Board and syllabuses are available from the Sixth Form Prospectus.
Religious Education
All students follow a Religious Education Programme throughout their time
in the College and spend 10% of their curriculum time at worship or studying
R.E., in line with the advice of the Bishops’ Conference. At 16, students
will be able to take the GCSE examination. In the Sixth Form students choose
between further examination courses, and a more reflective or discussion-based
approach.
Collective Worship
Worship is at the heart of our College and is very important to our distinctive
Catholic nature.We are fortunate to have our own Chapel, which was opened
in the summer of 1995. Every day begins with an Act of Worship for all students
and teachers. This takes the form of a Site Assembly, or one in
a Year Group or Tutor Group - some of which students will be encouraged and
helped to plan and lead themselves.
Various other Acts of Worship will be held each term, for example Year Masses
for Holy Days, and services of Reconciliation at Lent.
Sex Education
The Sex Education Programme can only succeed if responsibility for it is shared
between parents/guardians and the Holy
Family Technology College. The College recognises that parents and guardians
are the key people in helping their
children cope with the physical and emotional aspects of growing up and preparing
them for the challenges and
responsibilities which sexual maturity brings. The Holy Family Technology
College will support parents/guardians by
providing a planned programme of sex education.
Parents and guardians can make a valuable contribution to teaching and learning
through their knowledge, skills and
experience gained in their families and other work. All parents and guardians
should be encouraged to build on the
programme offered by the College by supporting it at home. The College will
clearly explain the programme in order
that they can do this.
For the students, the Sex Education Programme will include: gaining a body
of knowledge, developing their personal
attitudes and values; thinking about relationships, and learning about skills
which will help to form and maintain
relationships.
Sex education will take place specifically in PSD lessons, Religious Education
and
Science lessons. All teaching will be based firmly in the context of caring
relationships. The programmes will be appropriate to the ages of the students,
sensitive to their cultural backgrounds and take full account of any special
needs. The planning group will work with the main feeder Primary Schools to
plan programmes which take account of pupils’ development. They will
also
take account of those programmes of Study and Attainment Targets in the
Science National Curriculum which include some sex education.
