Cardiff Sixth Form College
Year Established: 2004 Boarding School Type: Co-Educational |
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Location: City: Cardiff and Cambridge Nearest Airport: Students will use Heathrow Airport Nearest Station: Cardiff Central and Cambridge Central |
Number of Students: Age Range: 14-19 Age Range of Boarders: 14-19 Approx Number of Students: 450 Approx Number of Boarders: 390 Number of International Students: 80% |
Tuition plus Boarding Fees for Year: (per term/per year) £ 53,300 per annum |
Name of Headmaster/Principal: Gareth Collier |
About
Cardiff Sixth Form College is the top school in the UK and has topped the league tables over the past 12 years. Key subject choices include medicine, engineering, law, natural sciences, computer science, architecture, business and economics with students going onto the top G5 universities in the UK. The original school is situated in the middle of Cardiff, the lively capital city of Wales. In 2022 the college also opened a second STEM A Level campus in the stunning university city of Cambridge. The campus has in addition to excellent teaching, a wide range of work placement opportunities with the local technological, medical, pharmaceutical and research companies locally and enjoys excellent links with Cambridge University with a mentoring scheme of undergraduate students mentoring the students at Cardiff Sixth Form College.
Students can join Cardiff Sixth Form College for two or one year GCSE courses (aged 14 or 15 years) or A levels (aged 16-17 years). A full super-curricular programme of careers, work placement – both internationally and in the UK, skills development, online courses, critical thinking and research projects supplements the excellent academic programme. All students at Cardiff are ambitious and are aiming for top universities so the college excels in giving students the edge. There is a year-long, one to one university preparation programme in place to help students navigate the UCAS system, the differences in courses, provide guidance on interviews and personal statements and tutor for top university admissions tests as well as many visits from external speakers and university admissions advisors.
Over 40 nationalities are at Cardiff Sixth Form College and top students join the prestigious college from all over the world. Part of the largest educational organisation in the UK, Dukes Education, students also take advantage of the Oxbridge, Medical, US and work placement opportunities run by Dukes Consultancy arm.
Academic (information that is not outdated quickly)
A*-A grades – 95%
A*-B grades – 99%
83% to QS top 100 universities worldwide
67% to Russell Group
Wellbeing
The school is award winning for its pastoral care winning pupil development, wellbeing and pupil personal development awards from the Independent Schools Association. A system called CREATE (community, respect, enrich, active, thrive, engage) has been put in place to ensure all students feel supported and in turn support the Cardiff community. Heads of House, pastoral care staff, wellbeing officers, student peer mentors, guardians, Heads of Year and Heads of Subject all surround each student to ensure they are happy, engaged and have any issues addressed immediately. Parents are given the contact details of the Head of House to discuss their child at any time.
Boarding
Boarding is excellent - all single ensuite at Cardiff and staff are on every floor of the boarding house. Both boarding houses are modern, clean and fresh with common rooms, music practice rooms, art rooms and a full Medical Centre. Both campuses have their own canteen serving a variety of international dishes and special diets are accommodated.
Extra-curricular
There is a wide range of extra-curricular activities on offer including a range of sports (basketball, badminton, football, volleyball, swimming, yoga, dance, netball etc), drama with a full scale musical production every year, music, groups, the opportunity to play in the Cardiff Youth Orchestra and to perform at the Talent Show in the Millennium Theatre, a professional venue, art and photography clubs, Duke of Edinburgh, MUN, debating, Young Enterprise as well as a range of clubs including robotics, film, futurology, journalism, strategic games, philosophy, table tennis, volunteering and charity and the Young Scholars Cup.
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