Sixth Form Prospectus

Jesmond Park Academy Sixth Form offers you a comprehensive range of choices, specialised support and outstanding opportunities.

On offer, we have 30 A Level / BTEC options to ensure we can accommodate all student abilities and most course/subject combinations and lead them onto their chosen progression routes. Course entry requirements can be found on page 59 of the prospectus. Below you can find out more about our comprehensive choices and the course types we offer.

Our Bridging Courses, held in June 2024, are designed to give you a taster of your chosen subjects, so you can be confident you have made the right choice and will enjoy your time in our Sixth Form.

Our prospectus contains a range of useful information about our facilities, student life, enrichment, courses, and entry requirements. However, we would encourage you to register your interest with us and if you haven't already, arrange a personal tour of our Sixth Form facilities and meet our team. We'd love to meet you in person.

Sixth Form Open Evening, Wednesday 6th December 2023, 5:30pm to 8:00pm

Comprehensive Choices

We offer a great choice of A Level and BTEC options to ensure we can accommodate all student abilities and most course/subject combinations and lead them onto their chosen progression routes. You can view our course entry requirements on page 59 in the prospectus.

Our Bridging Courses, held in June 2024, are designed to give you a taster of your chosen subjects, so you can be confident you have made the right choice and will enjoy your time in our Sixth Form.

A Levels

You will choose three A Levels to study across a two year period, leading up to final examination assessment.

There is no coursework for most subjects and this won’t count towards your A Level. AS level exams are no longer available. It is all about what you achieve at the end of the two years. Only students who have an average grade of A (or equivalent) at GCSE, or those doing Further Maths, may be allowed to take four A Levels.

BTEC Level 3

In addition to, or as an alternative to A Level courses, students can select from a range of BTEC subjects that are either academically or vocationally focussed.

We offer BTEC courses in Level 3 Business, IT, Creative Digital Media Production, Travel and Tourism, Health and Social Care and Applied Science.

EPQ

The Level 3 Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) is a  standalone qualification designed to extend and develop students' abilities beyond the A Level syllabus and prepare for university or their future career. The EPQ is worth half an A Level and is a qualification which many universities look at when giving offers.

The EPQ allows students to lead their own projects. Students plan and carry out research on a topic that they've chosen and isn't covered by their other qualifications. They can take inspiration from something touched on in class or something personal and unrelated to their studies. They then use this research to produce a written report and, in the case of practical projects, an artefact or a production. Students are required to spend 120 hours on their project, 30 hours of which is taught.