Welcome to Loreto Sixth Form
Welcome to the Sixth Form at Loreto Grammar School. The two years that you will spend in our care will be two of the busiest, the most important and I hope, the most enjoyable in your school career. As you specialise in your favourite subjects, you will develop the knowledge and skills which we see as the first steps in your future career, whatever that may be.
News
Future Leaders of the World Unite!
On October 9th Girls from the Sixth Form took part in MUNCH- Model United Nations- at Cheadle Hulme School. Model United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, effective communication, and multilateral diplomacy.
Beyond The Curriculum...
Bank of England and The Times Interest Rate Challenge 2010/2011…
Prospects for the UK economy remain at the centre of public debate with enormous interest shown in the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee and its monthly decisions. The challenge the Committee itself faces, given the uncertainty over the strength of the recovery, made this year’s eleventh annual Bank of England and The Times Interest Rate Challenge an even more exciting proposition for the thousand-plus school and college students who participated in the Challenge’s regional heats in November.
Curriculum
Our Sixth Form Curriculum is exceptionally rich. We offer some 30 subjects at AS/A2 Level. Students may opt to continue with subjects with which they are familiar, or they may opt to take up a new subject, such as Economics, English Language, Government and Politics, Physical Education, Psychology, Sociology or Theatre Studies. It is usual to study at least 4 subjects to AS Level, and at least 3 to A2 Level. We advise students to opt for no more than 2 new subjects. Our Curriculum provision is extremely flexible: we construct our option blocks around the students’ choices and 99% of girls are successful in studying all the options they desire. We also offer a highly individualised Curriculum, so that for an increasing number of Year 13 students their academic Curriculum is “tailor-made”, with a mix of A2 and additional AS subjects.
Committee & Charity
The Sixth Form Committee plays an active role in ensuring that Loreto sustains its ties within the wider community. During the Christmas Term, members of the Sixth Form Committee, along with a class of Year 7’s, went to the Manchester homeless shelter, Cornerstones, to sing carols and share food and clothes which had been collected over the previous months. The Sixth Form is also actively involved in the NSPCC’s Child Voice Appeal, which aims to raise several million pounds nation wide over the next three years.
