The College’s A Level pass rate of 98.5% (grades A*-E) continues to be significantly higher than the national average (97.6%). This is the 17th year running that it has been above the national average. The percentage of Worcester Sixth Form College A Level entries resulting in A* - C grades also continues to be above the [...]
My week volunteering at St Richard’s Hospice has been brilliant! I’ve loved every bit of it. I started on Monday; the first thing I did was to get a tour of the hospice. It’s a lovely building, everything looks so new. There is a whole project underway, it’s called ‘Build 2020’. Thanks to the public’s donations [...]
Worcester Sixth Form College is celebrating the success of its first year as the as the HE Plus Hub Centre for Worcestershire. The University of Cambridge works with groups of state schools and colleges in 20 different regions of the UK on the HE Plus Programme. More than 130 schools and colleges across the country participate. [...]
Congratulations to Worcester Sixth Form College A Level student, Mia Stevens, who has been presented with the Worcester Civic Society’s Professor Michael Clarke Award for the Best Extended Project. Mia’s exemplary project focused on the extent to which Henrik Ibsen challenges 19th-century Women’s roles in his plays “A Doll’s House” and “Hedda Gabler”, looking specifically at [...]
I went for a week of work experience at Malvern Panalytical, a science and business oriented company that makes extremely precise measuring devices. I was walked through the process of a research and development project in a team of three, which took me from product design and an evaluation cycle, through designing circuitry and soldering circuit [...]
When helping with the production of the ‘A Day in a Life’ college film, I absolutely loved capturing the essence of what life as a student at Worcester Sixth Form College is truly like with the endless possibilities that can be had there. Filming the film helped with my experience of producing as I helped with [...]
Good luck to first year student Wiktoria Tucholska who will travel to Italy and compete in an MMA Cage Fight on 20th July. Wiktoria is the current World, European and National Brazilian Jujitsu Champion in her category. Amazingly, Wiktoria only started Jujitsu training a year ago so her successes are even more outstanding!
Worcester Sixth Form College Access to Higher Education students celebrated the completion of their course with a presentation ceremony this afternoon. The event was an opportunity to celebrate the students’ achievements and thank both staff and students for their hard work during the year. Fourteen students completed the year-long Diploma in total with 12 completing the [...]
In April 2019 Worcester Sixth Form College became a 16-19 Academy and joined with Hereford Sixth Form College to form the Heart of Mercia Multi-academy Trust. This will ensure that we can continue to provide an excellent range and standard of education for young people from Worcestershire and beyond in their sixth form studies. However, in [...]
On Friday 15th March teenagers across the UK came together to protest against Climate Change. I went to Birmingham to join in. Me and my friend hopped on the train at Foragate Street and took the 45-minute trip to Birmingham city centre. We were both a bit nervous on train journey there as we had never [...]
