Designed to be focused on technical education in a smaller and more personal environment than a college, SBU Sixth offers high quality, education and support for students aged 16-19.
We have an amazing amount of diversity in our Sixth Form and this is something we are extremely proud of. We also recognise that our diversity brings with it a range of needs, which we are fully prepared to support. Pastoral care, well-being and good mental health is central in our considerations when supporting our students.
We offer a timetable that includes classroom learning, practicals and structured independent study, with mentoring from staff and industry co-sponsors built into the curriculum. We ensure all of our students are able to benefit from our information, advice and guidance structure, which has been built around the needs of each cohort. This includes workshops to support students writing their UCAS personal statements and professional counselling.
Many strands of support are on offer to students, in order to facilitate excellent progress and attainment, and these include regular intervention activities, enrichment, and further tailored support. We focus this support on developing students around our values:
Innovation, Integrity and Intent.
Pastoral Support
We offer support to students through our support team, which works to build strong, positive and impactful relationships with students and parents and carers.
Every student is assigned a coach (Form Tutor) and this is a vital strand of our pastoral care system. Students attend a daily coaching session (Form group) each morning. Coaches form a close, productive relationship with the students, also working closely with parents and carers. The Coach is a parent/carer’s main link with SBUSixth as they have pastoral responsibility which includes attendance, punctuality and behaviour. We make sure our students have good mental health through education, care, advice and a zero tolerance in regards to bullying. All our students can confidentially report bullying through our monitored email service safeguarding@sbusixth.ac.uk
We aim to ensure that students are receiving high quality, personalised and responsive care to support their learning and personal development. This comprises elements of SMSC, personal development, careers, work-related learning, sex and relationships education and religious studies.
An important element of our pastoral care service is to monitor attendance and timekeeping. To ensure our students are employable professionals of the future, this process is stringent and we have high expectations of our students but will always treat people fairly, equitably and with dignity and showing integrity throughout. Our culture is always positive.
Careers information advice and guidance is a key strand of our work – we aim to offer high quality, unbiased and personalised advice and guidance. More information here