When second year student, Luke Weller, joined Worcester Sixth Form College, he enrolled on the Junior Internship Programme (JIP) and saw the benefits of being able to gain valuable work experience in a local STEM company. Luke knew he wanted to pursue a career in engineering and was successful in securing a placements at Malvern Panalytical Ltd. [...]
Darian Murray-Griffiths, who completed his A Levels in Classical Civilisation, English Literature, History and Politics in 2020, was invited to Downing Street in early October to discuss race relations in the UK, following the success of his speech at the Worcester Black Lives Matter rally last June. As a result of the coverage of Darian’s speech, [...]
The HE+ 2021 Programme got off to a flying start this week with a series of on-line launch events. In normal times Worcester Sixth Form College (as the hub centre for Worcestershire) would be the venue for most of the HE+ events in our region but this year it is all happening on-line. 250 Year 12 [...]
Worcester Sixth Form College has successfully introduced its programme of onsite testing. Weekly testing of staff who are working at College commenced on Monday, 11th January and has now been extended to include the small number of students who are on site during the current lockdown. Ed Senior, Principal, said: "I am pleased that [...]
First year student, Laura Brown, has just completed her second stint in the England Under 18’s football training camp. On this particular training camp, Laura played against Blackburn Women and beat them 2-1 and Leicester City Women's team and beat them 3-1! So all in all, had a very successful time! Laura has been part of [...]
Second year Health and Social Care students are sending Christmas messages to older adults who are socially isolated and experiencing loneliness in support of the charity MHA Communities. In many cases they are living with dementia or are visually/aurally impaired. MHA Communities train volunteer befrienders to pay weekly visits to the homes of these vulnerable people, [...]
We were pleased to share the news back in November that second year student, Cerys McAdam, had an article published in the Worcester News. The article entitled ‘Football must be about both genders’ can be read in full here: https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/18864585.football-must-genders-says-student-cerys-mcadam/ Cerys, who is studying A Levels in English Language, English Literature and Sociology, explains why she [...]
Worcester Sixth Form College is excited to launch the ‘LINK’ scheme which aims to help students to meet new friends and form social links with their peers resulting in greater confidence and self-esteem. LINK is available to all new and existing students and it is hoped it will be of interest particularly to those students who [...]
Congratulations to first year student, Charlie Turley, who has been promoted to Advanced Level in Equestrian Endurance riding after being named Top Young Rider at the Golden Horseshoe and Red Dragon events in 2019 successfully completing a total of 350km. Charlie and her horse Safiya only began endurance riding in 2018 as a novice participating in long-distance [...]
The cat is finally out of the bag....! https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/18722863.worcestershire-music-teacher-will-compete-great-british-bake-off-2020/ We are so excited to watch our very own Rowan every week on the Great British Bake Off from Tuesday!
