Supporting Sixth Form Leaders

Free access to newsletters, events and some resources as well as helpful updates and information to help you manage your sixth form.

750+

resources available

1,000+

train with us each year

11,000+

leaders / tutors use our resources

4000+

centres in our community

Resources

Free access to newsletters, events and some resources as well as helpful updates and information to help you manage your sixth form. Access our flagship Getting the Grades Tutorial Scheme to use over two years. Plus a members' CPD zone and half-termly management webinars.

Conferences

In-person and online conferences. Autumn & Summer packed full of practical advice and essential updates. Our online events feature 20+ intense and varied sessions to make sure you go away with plenty of ideas and feeling 'in-the-know' in just one day. Member and non-member rates..

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Resources

Search for free resources to use with students as well as use in your leadership role.

Events & Conferences

Support

Free weekly newsletter

By signing up to our free newsletter, you will gain access to weekly updates to support you in your role.

Useful Organisations

Find organisations that support post-16. Search our growing database of organisation centres use.

University Spotlights

Bespoke information from universities aimed at tutors and careers advisors includes new and overlooked courses to help when advising students.

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Member Benefits

Overview

Tutorial programme, leadership resources & CPD zone

Getting the Grades Video Tutorial Scheme

Entire skills-based tutorial scheme from transition to sixth form to final exams, results day.
Featuring post-16 students sharing unscripted, genuione advice on how to make a success of sixth form
2-year scheme. 80+ videos. Optional workbooks.
Each 5-6 mins video features two discussion activities to help engage students and get them talking about skills, mindset and behaviours for academic success.
Use in tutor time once per week or in assembly.

Leadership webinars, support & CPD zone

Webinar Briefings - Each half term we host member-only webinars to keep you updated on key themes pertinent to the moment e.g. census, recruitment, curriculum changes.
Extended webinars - longer sessions to go into greater depth eg. copying under a cyber attack, using AI in your sixth form. Invite a wider range of staff for these sessions as they often require a team approach.
Weekly email - members receive a weekly email with remidners of resources to use and key updates.

Conference discount and free 2nd delegate

Discount - member rates for our national conferences so you sve money on your membership.

Free extra delegate place - for our popular online conferences in November and June, after booking an initial place, members get a free second delegate from your membership centre, so you can involve another member of your managament team.

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Getting the Grades Video Tutorial Scheme

Our tutorial scheme delivers on the skills for academic success

Skills, behaviours and mindset for academic success

Central to our tutorial resources is Getting the Grades Video Tutorial Scheme
Being academically successful in the sixth form to deliver on student grades for their progression and value-add for school performance measures.
Entire skills-based tutorial scheme from transition to sixth form to final exams, results day.
Featuring post-16 students sharing unscripted, genuione advice on how to make a success of sixth form
2-year scheme. 80+ videos. Optional workbooks.
Each 5-6 mins video features two discussion activities to help engage students and get them talking about skills, mindset and behaviours for academic success.
Use in tutor time once per week or in assembly.

Complete ready-made scheme

All tutors need to do is click on the relevant video, play in tutor time.
Pause in the middle of each video to engage in the discusison activity.
Pause at the end of the video for the plenary discussioin activity.
Your students will be learning from former post-16 students, all from state schools, across the ability range but with many who are highly aspirational.
Each student featured in the video also shows their final destination (course, university or apprenticeship).

Additional workbooks provided (optional)

If you are not into workbooks, don't worry: each video is a complete resource in itself.
Each video is 5-6 mins in length plus discussion, so can easily run from 10 mins to however long the tutorial discussion lasts.
Longer tutorial sessions? Use our Individual workbooks. One per student with extension tasks related to each video.
Need some way of gauging the progress through the scheme in each tutor group? Use our Class workbooks, One per tutor group. One student records the outcome form the class discussion.
Want to create your own scheme using the videos and workbook activities? Use our Bespoke workbooks (class or individual) which allow you to print off only the pages you want and arrnage into any order.
Workbooks cover Year 12/Lower and Year 13/Upper.

Tutorial Scheme Optional workbooks

Weekly Email with Tips & Resources

Members receive a weekly email with helpful reminders, tips and resources to use that week with tutors. Simply cut and paste the tutor briefing and email to your tutors. That’s it!

Half-termly Management Webinars

Sign up for our half-termly webinars to support sixth form leaders: funding, census, inspection, UCAS reforms, recruitment – any area that members feel is timely and helpful. Recorded for catch up if you can’t make the live event.

Members' rates and additional free delegates

Members receive a discount when booking our national conferences plus an additional free delegate at our online events, so you can involve wider members of your team for free.

CPD Zone

Dip into our CPD bank of recorded conference and webinar sessions on topics including PSHE, RSE, inspection, funding, census, teaching and learning, behaviour management, leadership.

Add KS4 Getting the Grades Tutorial Scheme

Getting the Grades: GCSE

Help Year 10 & 11 get the best grades possible

Video tutorial scheme for GCSE

GCSE students were filmed 4 weeks fater completing their summer exams
A range of students who went on to a range of post-16 pathways, so that a mixed ability cohort will find voices with whom to identify
40+ videos from choosing GCSEs, making a good

Help student gets the grades they need

KEY THEMES IN THE VIDEOS

Choosing GCSEs (everyone requires hard work, go with your strengths, combined sciences vs triple).
Starting GCSEs (make notes, take lessons seriously, revise as you go).
Finding it hard (strategies for English, Maths, sciences).
Top grades (trategies for English, Maths, sciences).
Looking after yourself (sleep, exercise, diet, mental welfare).
Exam anxiety (avoid getting overwhelmed, confidence, get help, work step by step, learn to manage stress).
Lots on work ethic, study skills, mindset.
Friendship (positive, distractions, social media, phones).
Mock exams, bouncing back, seeking help, seizing intervention when offered.
Why stay on to sixth form?
Choosing post16 courses (go with strengths, don't choose based on expected teachers and friendship choices).

Two discussion activities feature in each 3 mins video

Each video features students offering their experiences and advice
Middle activity about just over a minute in - discussion to engage in content
End of video - plenary discussion activity to reflect on student's own action from listening to the advice
Tutors simply play and pause
Suitable for sessions 5-10 mins duration.
Optional bespoke workbook - for each student to complete to help engage with the content and provide a record of what took place in the tutorial session. Free to use by all members. Suitable for sessions 10+ mins.
Bespoke workbook - create your own sequence of using the videos to suit your centre. Free to use by all members.

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