EN- Initial research

 EN- Initial Research 

East Norfolk Sixth Form 

Mission 

“Excellence and Care: the College is working for its Community” 

The college strives to give their students the best opportunities that they can offer so they can fulfil their potential through high quality teaching. They provide a supportive environment, catering to individual needs, and serve the local and national community by adapting to their students’ and stakeholders’ needs.  

Core Values 

• Excellence: This is promoted in order to provide students with the best opportunities, encouraging them to have high aspirations, high standards and high achievement 
• Care: They value their students, staff and governors and their talent, supporting each student so they can achieve their personal potential  
• Diversity: This is embraced, and equal opportunities are promoted for all within a framework of mutual respect 
• Integrity: They adhere to ethical and professional standards in all aspects of their work, committed to working hard and promoting equality and fairness 

Impressive facts 

• 25 subjects of the 37 A levels offered achieved 100% pass rate 
• 56% of students that progress to Russell Group universities achieve a First-Class degree, over 20% higher than the national average for State and Independent sectors 
• 9 students secured their places at Oxford and Cambridge in 2020, a record-breaking number for EN 

Number of courses 

There are 87 different courses currently running at East Norfolk, including A levels, BTECs and T-levels. 

Futures Team 

The Futures Team is committed to supporting students in making informed decisions about their future career pathways and encourage all students to be aspirational with their choices, whether they plan to apply for an apprenticeship, job or university place. They ensure that our students have a wide range of work placements to choose from and organise a programme of guest speakers from a variety of different industries to engage students in thinking about their future career paths.  

ExtENd 

The Extend Programme is for students who are aiming to get into a highly competitive university and typically where the application process includes some form of admissions process. The programme challenges students to think ambitiously about where they see themselves progressing onto after Sixth Form studies. They provide extra support for those intending to go to Oxbridge or Russell Group Universities as they’re typically more demanding than other universities and applications are much more competitive.  

 

Competitor- Lowestoft Sixth Form College 

Mission 

Lowestoft’s mission is to ‘enable our students to excel and progress beyond expectation in an outstanding learning environment in the heart of Lowestoft’. 

Core Values 

• Aspirational – Being supportive, exploring potential and challenging ourselves daily.
• Respectful – Acting with compassion, being inclusive, and welcoming others in our learning community and to our environment.
• Professional – Putting team first, acting with integrity, developing our expertise and having a focused work ethic.
• Successful – Determining our ambition, achieving excellence and continually raising standards.

Impressive facts 

• In 2020, 100% of their A-Level students passed their exams, with 96.1% achieving A*- C grades. The BTEC students did equally well with 100% passing their Diploma course 
• Lowestoft Sixth Form College is a £25 million purpose-built college 
• They have full WIFI coverage 

Number of courses 

There are 37 courses currently available, including A levels, BTECs, CTECs and Level 2 courses (BTEC and GCSEs). 

Additional support 

At LSFC, they support for those with special education needs and disabilities. The support includes assistive technology, wellbeing and counselling, exam access arrangements, and independent careers advice and guidance.  

They also have the Happy Balance wellbeing programme which helps students to achieve their ideal mental, social and physical state. The student wellbeing team run a host of talks and workshops throughout the year to protect and advise those who need help. 

 

Why you picked EN 

I picked EN because of the enormous range of courses that are on offer, many of which I was intrigued by. I had never heard of so many of them and I wanted to try out new experiences. My intrigue was further extended when I found out you could select 4 courses to do as it appealed to my indecisive nature. Furthermore, I liked the sound of the various ENhance activities available, such as the DofE award. I greatly enjoy doing as many extracurricular activities as I can, so found interest in how many activities I could pick from. EN is also only a 10-to-15-minute drive from my house, which was an advantage when I was considering my options. Though East Coast college is closer, I found EN to be the better choice for me because I wanted to be able to do multiple courses.  

What subjects are you interested in? 

Aside from the courses I am already doing (performing arts (acting), creative media (TV and film), psychology and fine art), the subjects which interest me, and I would like to find out more about are:  

• Criminology 
• Dance 
• Photography 
• Fashion & textiles