Our students choose Rossall for the Sixth Form education because they want to have the best opportunity to secure their first choice destination, whether that is university in the UK or any number of other paths open to them.
It is no accident that the Rossall campus feels very much like an Oxford or Cambridge college. When the school was established over 170 years ago, the intention from the outset was to create an environment where pupils would embark on a seamless journey from school to the best universities in the country.
That remains the ambition for many of our pupils and, though times may have changed, our pupils still proceed to some of the most sought-after colleges and universities around the world.
A university education is not the only path and whatever our students’ goals are, Rossall is the place where they can establish themselves and learn approaches that will enable them to thrive.
A Sixth Form education at Rossall is designed to stimulate and challenge in equal measure. We want our Sixth Formers to be intellectually curious, to articulate and defend their opinions, and to work both collaboratively and independently.
We also want our sixth formers to establish great habits, which they will take forward for the rest of their lives:
Independent study skills
Engagement with healthy pursuits
Lifelong love of learning
Making social connections
Our Sixth Form pupils enjoy a wide array of extracurricular and extra-mural pursuits. The range is vast from wall-climbing and basketball, through to scuba diving and cookery skills, to the Bank of England Challenge and the Farrell Literary Society.
In addition, invited guest lecturers provide diversity of opinion and provoke debate as part of our Speaker Series programme. Students are also encouraged to get out of their comfort zone to be bold and to try new things.
This could be something as simple as starting a new sport or activity, or it could include spending 24 hours in the wild, participating in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, or signing up for the World Challenge expedition to Cambodia and Vietnam.