Dd1 has asked me to post to get your thoughts on her dilemma about where to go for 6th form.
She currently goes to a Welsh-medium comp (ie everything taught in the medium of Welsh) and has been predicted 6A* and 7A at GCSE. She is very ambitious, and has her sights set on a top university, and has even set her sights on going to the US for uni. All of this has come from her - we are not pushy parents in any sense.
We have always assumed that she will carry on in the 6th form of her school - all of her friends will be, and they offer all of the subjects she wants to do.
However, over the past weeks, I have been wondering whether it would be more beneficial for her to go somewhere that is more "focussed" on pushing the bright children and where they have the knowledge and experience of pupils going to Oxbridge etc and can offer support in applications etc.
We live near enough for her to go to Hereford Sixth Form College which is ranked as one of the best sixth form colleges in the UK. They offer an extension programme for pupils hoping to get into Oxbridge or similar and she would be able to do more than the 3 A levels plus Welsh Bac that she will do in her current school (ie could do another A level instead of the Welsh Bac)
We have never had an issue with her current school, and (as her results, hopefully, will show), the school has served her well & she has been very happy there. However, I was a bit perturbed when she had a careers meeting where she told the teacher she was interested in finding out about going to uni in America and the teacher said "oooh, no-one's ever asked me that before" and that was the end of it. They don't have many pupils go to Oxbridge (about 2 per year I think), and I don't know whether they will be able to push dd to achieve everything I think she's capable of.
Having discussed this with dd, she is now feeling quite confused. She has been very happy where she is, and of course, being in the 6th form at a school you been at since year 7 is an appealing prospect, with all of the kudos it brings. Her friends are all staying on, and she has been friends with most of them since reception class. However, she can see the value of what the 6th form college could offer her.
As I say, she has asked me to post on here to get the thoughts of mumsnet on this dilemma - what would you do?
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emsiewill · 10/05/2013 22:46
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