About New Dinnington Sixth Form

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New Dinnington Sixth Form

Why New Dinnington Sixth Form?

In addition to our commitment to academic excellence, we are deeply dedicated to preparing our students for adult life, further study, and employment. We strive to empower young people to develop essential life skills, cultivate confidence, and ensure their well-being. Our sixth form boasts smaller class sizes compared to neighbouring colleges, enabling students to establish stronger working relationships with expert teachers. This allows us to offer bespoke academic support. Our comprehensive enrichment programme provides students with opportunities to engage with diverse individuals, acquire new skills, and gain insights into the world around them. We provide comprehensive support to students in their preparation for the most competitive degrees, apprenticeships, and employment opportunities. This includes valuable engagement with universities, employers, and work experience.

Progress Tutors

Your Progress Tutor will help you settle into college life when you arrive, and will support you as you adjust to the challenge of managing your workload and achieving your grades. Your relationship with your Progress Tutor will be key to ensuring you get the very best out of college life and engage with it fully. Tutorial sessions held once a week in Year 12 will be a mixture of one-to-one support sessions and important relevant topics, such as social and career related issues. In Year 13 your tutorial will be designed to support you with your UCAS application to university or apprenticeship/job application.

Assessments

We need to know how you’re performing so we can help you achieve outstanding results. Both your Progress Tutor and subject teachers will review your progress on a regular basis, focusing on your achievement and attendance in each subject. Together you will agree targets to ensure motivation, direction and a clear plan of action to keep you on track and improving. All this information will be recorded and will be accessible to both parents and students securely via our secure online portal.

Careers Advice

You will also be able to access a comprehensive programme of careers advice in the Sixth Form, including access to the careers service, expert advice about degree courses, support in organising work experience placements and assistance in applying to highly competitive universities. We will help you to make well-informed decisions about your future and to prepare high-quality applications, whether that’s to university, to apprenticeships or into the labour market.

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