Harrogate Grammar students have made an information video to focus on Sixth Form life and learning ahead of an Open Afternoon on Saturday, January 27, 2024, 2pm - 4pm.
To book your place please visit www.harrogategrammar.co.uk
HGS Head Student Tess Easthaugh interviewed students with the most frequently asked questions about life in the Sixth Form.
She said: "I hope the video helps any future students thinking of applying to get an insight into sixth form life and that it helps answer any questions they might have before making their decisions.’
To book your place please visit www.harrogategrammar.co.uk
HGS Head Student Tess Easthaugh interviewed students with the most frequently asked questions about life in the Sixth Form.
She said: "I hope the video helps any future students thinking of applying to get an insight into sixth form life and that it helps answer any questions they might have before making their decisions.’
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00:00 How do you find settling in as a new student to Harrogate Grammar School coming from another
00:07 school? I find it quite easy, all the teachers were
00:11 really helpful, everyone was really approachable and nice.
00:16 Do you get the right support through your lessons and through your teachers to help
00:20 you be more dependent? Yes, they've given us a study folder and
00:24 from there we go to study lessons. We have lots of resources to revise and look back
00:28 at what we may have missed. How do you find iPads for learning here at
00:31 SIGFORM? I joined the school anew and so I wasn't
00:34 used to using an iPad at all, so when I joined they taught me how to use it, they set everything
00:39 up for me and it's just much better than using pen and paper for everything.
00:43 How do you find the support here at SIGFORM outside of your lessons?
00:47 I find the support really helpful, there's the LRC and all the learning support staff,
00:52 I struggle with dyslexia and I find that really helpful moving here from another school.
00:57 The support is so amazing, they're so approachable, the office is right next to our studies so
01:02 whenever you need any help you can just pop straight in. You can talk to them about anything,
01:07 school, UCAS, uni, apprenticeships, they've got so much knowledge but you can also talk
01:11 to them about personal things. So how do you find the extracurricular opportunities
01:17 here at SIGFORM? Yeah, they're really good, there's loads
01:19 of opportunities like within music, drama, sports, to pick something you like and have
01:24 fun with it. It gives you a breather after school when you've done your homework, when
01:30 you need studies and just want to get off some fun.
01:36 So I take part in the Netball Sports Academy which is built into my timetable which is
01:40 great and we have a coach who comes in to do that from the Toronto Netball so it's quite
01:44 high standard. How do you find the facilities here at school?
01:49 They're great if you do any kind of sport or extracurricular because they've got indoor
01:53 and outdoor facilities. They've also got separate spaces in SIGFORM to main school which I think
01:58 brings a lot of independence and they've got separate study spaces for Year 13 and Year
02:04 12 which really helps when you're trying to do work.
02:08 So what was the application process like when you were coming into SIGFORM?
02:12 So in about February of Year 11 we applied for our subject choices that we wanted to
02:16 do and when you applied you got given required grades you needed to do to do those courses
02:21 and then on results day we found out if you got those grades or not and if you didn't
02:25 you just had to set up a meeting with the teachers the next day to figure out what your
02:28 next steps were going to be.
02:33 How do you find the course options here at SIGFORM? Could you take anything that you
02:37 wanted to?
02:38 Yeah, quite literally there's a great variety of different things so there's for example
02:42 BTECs, there's A levels, there's AS, there's even EPQ which is really beneficial when it
02:48 comes to applying to university and then also there's more practical ones as well if you're
02:53 more of a hands on person.
02:57 How do you find that school supports you through the university application process?
03:01 So throughout Year 12 you do university visits, well for me I found it really inspiring because
03:06 you actually get to see first hand what the universities are like.
03:10 Is SIGFORM what you expected it to be?
03:12 Yeah, I think there's a lot more independence than I was expecting and there's a lot more
03:17 time one on one with your teacher that helps develop your knowledge on the subject.
03:21 Do you find that you got the right support when you were moving into SIGFORM to gain
03:25 that independence?
03:26 Yeah, I mean there's study sessions at lunch and after school and if you want your teachers
03:31 will spend a break for lunch with you to help you go through things if you don't understand.
03:36 Great, thank you very much.
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