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Personal Learning is at the heart of the programme of study at Post 16. Students have an opportunity to develop interests in the subjects they are studying by completing an AQA Extended Project. The Project will be on a topic that the student chooses with the help of a dedicated supervisor. This is an integral and important part of the personal learning programme. Those students on level 2 courses will complete the project, which is equivalent to half a GCSE.
Personal Learning will build towards developing key skills. This has been integrated with the development of citizenship activities and skills, focusing particularly on the wider key skills (working with others, problem solving and improving learning and performance). Students will have the opportunity to become involved in a number of different optional personal challenge activities. These activities will include the ‘Year Council’, supporting and mentoring younger students, visits to local universities, producing a Post 16 magazine, and completing a sports leadership award as well as many other opportunities.
Students can also among other things, participate in school drama productions and sports events, and run clubs and organise trips and visits. All these activities form a part of a students’ personalised route through their personal learning. Some Post-16 students have the opportunity to engage in a modern foreign language experience. A wide choice of languages are available with some working towards an AS/A2 level qualification. Some students with a strong language background complete a Level 3 award as part of their enrichment programme. There have been a number of International visits in recent years; destinations have included Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, Florence, Alençon, New York, Auschwitz and Bremen.
"Students will have the opportunity to become involved in a number of different optional personal challenge activities... ...supporting and mentoring younger students, visits to local universities, producing a Post 16 magazine, and completing a sports leadership award."