About the Sixth Form

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We have a large and lively Sixth Form of up to 200 girls. They have their own base in a specially-built block which provides a spacious common room for each year group, a well-equipped kitchen, seminar teaching rooms, a workroom with computers, a language laboratory and a lecture theatre with seating for 200. Year 13 have their own private garden courtyard.

The Sixth Form at JAGS is organised so that you can combine the excitement of new challenges with the reassurance of what is familiar. You will be in a tutor group of about sixteen Year 12 and 13 girls, who are studying your subject area. You will find that girls in Year 13 will offer advice and encouragement and you will absorb the pattern of the year and the choices that lie ahead of you. Your tutor will usually teach one of your subjects and be able to offer academic guidance as well as personal support. You will get to know each other well; it is your tutor who will help you first with all your decisions. Extended form-time twice a week is often used to address issues of common interest, but you can make an appointment to see your tutor for individual discussion. The tutors work with the Head of Sixth Form as a close-knit team; you will be able to draw on a wide range of expertise and have detailed advice to help you towards the best experience of life in the Sixth Form at JAGS.

Sixth Formers do not wear uniform and formal rules are kept to a minimum in keeping with the adult ethos in this section of the school. The twelve tutor groups, each containing Year 13 and Year 12 girls, meet with their tutor daily. The members of each group generally have one subject in common which is taught by their tutor. This shared academic core gives support and coherence to the group. Great importance is given to individual pastoral care and academic guidance.

The Sixth Form curriculum is very much a preparation for university, with much teaching in small seminar and tutorial groups. Girls are expected to pursue their own study and manage their workloads. New subjects are introduced at this stage, including: Art History; Politics; Further Mathematics; Philosophy, Critical Thinking and Economics. Most girls choose to do four or five AS subjects in Year 12: many will drop one of those for A2 in Year 13. A programme of visiting speakers including JAGS Old Girls covers a range of post-university career options.

The Liberal Studies programme in Year 13 is shared with the boys of Dulwich College. The involvement of both schools allows us to offer a vast range of cultural and recreational courses. Girls are encouraged to develop their modern language skills in addition to their A level subjects and to engage in sport or fitness training. They have a lively interest in current social and political issues which is encouraged by fortnightly lectures given by eminent speakers on a wide variety of topics. The many societies supported and often founded by Sixth Formers cater for diverse cultural and political interests, for example: Amnesty International, Poetry Discussion, History Society, Political Society, Medical Society, Geography Society, English Seminar Group.

Sixth Form girls often establish and run clubs and societies for younger girls and head the school Houses, organising and directing their many charitable activities. Sixth formers give generously of their time to community work outside school as volunteers in literacy schemes, schools, residential homes, visiting the elderly, hospitals, holiday play projects, and work camps.  Many of these projects are set up and run by the girls themselves.

We welcome new girls into Year 12 each autumn. The warm and friendly atmosphere of the Sixth Form common room and the close personal interest in each individual shown by the teaching and tutorial staff ensure that the transition to JAGS is happy and successful.

For admission to the Sixth Form, please contact the Registrar.