Y13 Tutor2u Grade Booster Workshop
On Tuesday 11th March, our Year 13 Economics students had the exciting opportunity to attend the Tutor2u Grade Booster Workshop in Manchester. They were privileged to meet Geoff Riley, the co-founder of Tutor2u, who shared 30 invaluable tips to help them enhance their A-Level grades. All students showed some brilliant engagement, and represented Wickersley Sixth […]
A-Level Physics Olympiad Online Challenge Success
Recently, Y12 A-Level Physics Students experienced success with the British Physics Olympiad’s Senior Physics Online Challenge. The competition consists of two 30-minute sets of multiple choice questions which are largely about physics ideas, but also encouraging some wider reading and interest in the subject. It is an opportunity for students to take part in a national physics […]
Wickersley Sixth Form Records Strong A Level Improvement
Wickersley Sixth Form’s Value Added (VA) results – the key performance measure for Post-16 education – have been officially published on the Government website. Our 2024 VA results are the first to be published since 2019, making them the first opportunity to truly assess our progress since before the pandemic. 2024 WSSC Academic VA = […]
Y13 British Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad
Recently, two of our Y13 Physics students took part in the British Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad Round 1. Mark and Korben joined 267 students from schools across the country to compete in the 2 hour Astro Olympiad Challenge. This paper is designed to give students further exposure to problem solving in astronomy and astrophysics, beyond that […]
Y13 British Physics Olympiad
All Y13 Physics students took part in the Physics Challenge from the British Physics Olympiad. This paper is designed to stretch thinking into the applications and ideas, rather than to keep to the narrow content of the syllabus, preparing students for further work, or for interview practice. A smaller group of the Y13 Physics students […]
WPT Y11 Careers Fair
We had a great day on Friday, exhibiting at Wickersley Partnership Trust’s Y11 Careers Fair, getting to speak to lots of students from across the Trust’s secondary schools about the Post-16 opportunities we have available at Wickersley Sixth Form. If you were one of the students interested in applying to Wickersley Sixth Form for September […]
WPT is 10 Showcase!
We would like to say a huge congratulations to the Wickersley Sixth Form students who took part in the WPT is 10 Showcase. The event, which was Wickersley Partnership Trust’s (WPT) biggest cross-Trust collaboration ever, was to celebrate 10 years since Wickersley School and Sports College academised and WPT was formed. The Showcase took place […]
A Level Drama London Theatre Trip
Sixth Form and Y11 Drama students recently enjoyed a two-day trip to London’s West End and South Bank. The students saw two shows – the revenge tragedy, The Duchess (of Malfi), starring Jodie Whittaker at the Trafalgar Theatre, and the celebrated stage musical, Operation Mincemeat, at the Fortune Theatre. The students took part in a practical workshop at Pineapple […]
Y12 Peak District Trip!
Y12 Geography students enjoyed time in the Peak District this week, working alongside the Peak District Moorland Discovery Centre. Students conducted numerous fieldwork methods to understand the importance of peatland nogs in storing Carbon, linking nicely to their Physical Geography work on the water and Carbon Cycle. Well done everyone! #WeWorkHard
A-Level Students Triumph in Physics Challenge!
Two of our Y13 A-Level Physics students entered themselves in the Computational Challenge by The British Physics Olympiad and were awarded a Gold Award for their hard work. Mark and Tom signed up for the challenge, which consisted of attending a series of 10 weekly online talks on Computational Physics given by Dr Andrew French […]
