Lady Lumley’s Sixth Form open evening: The place where students can thrive
Staff and students at Lady Lumley’s Sixth Form are collectively striving to “be our best”. Alex Carter, Head of Sixth Form of Lady Lumley’s, and Donna Hugill, the Sixth Form Pastoral Manager, explain more about the school’s ethos ahead of its open evening.
The school is ambitious for our students, support them in their progress towards career and life goals and truly value personal as well as academic development.
In 2024 OFSTED described it as a place where “students in the sixth form are proud to be at Lady Lumley’s. They value the positive relationships that they have with staff.
“One student told the inspectors ‘it is like being part of a family’. This comment was typical of many others.”
Our outcomes give our students life chances
Lucy Tingay, one of the Headteacher’s Ambassadors says: “The main reason I chose to study at Lady Lumley’s sixth form is the personal relationship with my teachers, and their investment in my aspirations.
“While reading psychology, biology and sociology, with the hope of studying psychology at Cambridge, I constantly feel supported and encouraged to do the best I can while my teachers go out of their way to help me reach my goals.
I find the size of the sixth form is a great fit for me and believe that the sense of community we have is unusual and wouldn't be possible without this.
Our outcomes give our students life chances, the product of an environment that supports and challenges students to truly thrive.
A total of 85% of students in 2024 achieved their first-choice university place, against a national average of 76%.
Students make rapid progress
Through high-quality teaching and learning and student commitment, opportunities exist for students to flourish.
We are very much looking forward to Year 11 students joining us in Year 12 and then preparing for two years to take the next step of employment, university, or higher-level apprenticeships.
Through a personal development curriculum, sixth form students are supported to develop as people and academics.
Across tutor time, life lessons and assemblies, skills and mindsets are focused on to ensure students make rapid progress and become outstanding members of the local, national, and global community.
Having a Sixth Form at Lady Lumley’s is a real asset
Our enriched learning environment includes our Aspire group for higher level critical thinking; the excellent Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award; trips abroad to Paris and Berlin for our Art and MFL students; outdoor education visits to the local North York Moors; careers conventions across the region; the Extended Project for students to really dive intellectually into an area they are highly interested in; a London trip for all; subject visits to university workshops where our students get to work with university professors and lots more!
All the sixth form students are positive role models to the younger students in the school.
‘Being our best’ is an ethos carried throughout the school and into the sixth form and is embedded in everything we do.
How and when to join the open evening
In Sixth Form there are some great opportunities for our sixth formers, being part of the headteacher’s ambassadors’ scheme, opportunities to take part in mentoring younger students and taking part in the work experience week.
We are looking forward to meeting the next cohort to make their way through our Sixth Form.
The school community is looking forward to you visiting us on Wednesday, November 6, 2024 between 6pm-7.30pm.
Lady Lumley’s Sixth Form is at Swainsea Lane, Pickering, YO18 8NG. Phone 01751 472846 or email [email protected]
Find out more at the Lady Lumley’s website