Academic Support
At Banbury Aspirations Campus Sixth Form we are focused on ensuring all students receive clear monitoring and support through their time in Sixth Form, to ensure they achieve their very best. All students’ termly assessments are tracked with input from subject teachers to ensure students keep on track with their predicted grades.
Support plans and Interventions will be put in place if needed and monitored by the Head of Sixth Form and parents.
All students are part of a mentor group, where students will build relationships with other students across the sixth form and involve themselves in a variety of activities such as discussions and debates. Mentor time is where the students will receive important information, receive support with applications and in addition receive pastoral support from their mentor, alongside the Personal Development programme.
Student Support
The Campus offers support for students with SEN through the learning development department. Students also have full access to seek advice/guidance/counsel from the school welfare manager and school nurse.
Our Community
All students contribute to the Banbury Aspirations Campus community and wider community in two ways: through engaging in a committee and taking on a leadership role. Students engage with the pupils in the lower school through supporting in KS3 and KS4 lessons and running extracurricular clubs. There are also opportunities for a wider impact on the community through assisting with our feeder primary schools.
Sixth Form Leadership
We have a Sixth Form Student Leadership team, who work collaboratively to raise money for Sixth Form and wider school causes, as well as supporting the lower school in arranging and running events for charities and other causes, such as Culture Day. Students in the Leadership team also provide mentoring in various forms to the lower school, from Year 7 up to Year 11.
Principal Students
Each year, we elect Principal Students to work with staff and students to represent the student population. This programme gives students the opportunity to develop their leadership and team working skills. These are important skills needed in their future endeavours. The Principal Students go to Primary Schools to support Year 6 students with their transition to Secondary School, as well as representing the school at Open Evenings.
Volunteering
In 2018, Banbury Aspirations Campus Sixth Form started a volunteering in the community week. It has been such a rewarding experience for the students. To date the students have worked with local schools, parks, allotments and took on a large community project that involved clearing the educational gardens at People’s Park. Alongside this, students have gone into care homes and worked with vulnerable adults in educational settings.
Trips and Visits
Throughout your time in Sixth Form there will be a number of opportunities to attend trips organised by the Sixth Form, to career fairs or local employers. We really encourage all students to attend the trips as much as possible as they have been selected to benefit you and help you with making choices about your future. We try to make trips as inexpensive as possible but we need all student participation to do this.
Our sixth form is also proud to offer students the chance to further develop their skills through various residentials & longer trips. From taking on The DofE award and the Camps International Expeditions to a journey across the Atlantic to NASA’s most cutting-edge and iconic sites (see our NASA Trips page), our trips represent an invaluable opportunity to expand learning beyond the classroom.
UCAS Application
Students are invited to several personal statement workshops and webinars throughout the year. Your Personal Statement will go through a series of checking to ensure your statement is the best that it can be. Parents will also be invited into school in order to find out more about the UCAS process and work closely with the sixth form team to support students’ applications.
Guest speakers and Careers Advice
Banbury Aspirations Campus has many fantastic links with Universities, including Oxford and Oxford Brookes. We regularly welcome guest speakers in to discuss further education, UCAS applications, applying for Oxford or Cambridge University and apprenticeship events. Students will also have a meeting booked with a Careers Advisor to discuss different career opportunities and options.
Work Experience
Banbury Aspirations Campus fully supports students finding working placements during their time at Sixth Form. Year 12 students source their own placements with support from the sixth form team. We also keep a stringent record of skills developed and opportunities taken. These documents prove invaluable when it comes to apprenticeship and university applications in Year 13.