Cirencester College or Cokethorpe School??

[MrsWeasley]

Does anyone have any experience of Cirencester College or Cokethorpe School please?

Would like some personal views.
They are under consideration for sixth form options.

Thanks

Anyone?
If you know anything please share it with me!

I don't know anything about the school but the College has a very good reputation and tries to get sixth formers to be responsible for their own learning etc. as you might expect. Theyhave very od staff-student liasion and student nion type things, good communication for parents and I would recommend.

Depends what you are after I suppose, as with any move from an 11-18 school to a sixth form college it is a very different environment.

HTH

"Very good staff-student" and "student union", I meant

Thanks

Our local secondary school only takes children up to 16 so need to do 6th form elsewhere.

Oh right. My "baby" brother is at Ciren curently doing A-levels and he really likes it. It is not like school at all, he says. He has to work hard though and they are very hot on good attendance. Good bus services AFAIK and I can't really think of anything negative, except that they nag you a bit to make an "entirely voluntary contribution of £50" to funds at the beginning of the year.

Thank you. Its always good to hear from other who know the schools.

Got some information from Cokethorpe a couple of years ago when I was thinking about it. The University destinations from the school were not high achieving - depends what you are looking for I guess. But I felt that since the two local comps had several students going to top unis each year that it wasn't worth paying several thousand a year...

I heard from a local tutor that the school used to be popular for students who had special needs etc such as dyslexia and many parents had sent their children their on that basis because of good support in that area. Heard from her more recently that the new(ish) head was trying to change that and raise levels of achievement, but that some of the parents who had sent their kids there for that original reason weren't best pleased.

None of that direct experience from having sent a kid there though...

thank you I had heard a similar story elsewhere.

Anyone else with experience of either?

Echo Marl's comments. Cokethorpe used to be (8yrs ago) regarded as a fall back for those who didn't make it into the (very selective) Abingdon schools, and was well known for having a great SEN (dyslexia especially)team. All changed with the appointment of the new head.I know Cokethorpe now have a pre-test and that their CE pass level is around 70%. Several children from my DCs school have gone there in the past few years, as well as some friends older DCs. All seem very happy, especially the rugby players!!The message seems to be just don't think of it as an option any longer if you have Dyslexic DCs

Sorry OP just noticed you were thinking about 6th form. The advantage Cokethorpe has is that it is co-ed. Magdalen is going co-ed in the 6th form this year and is also a day school but may be too far away.
Is Abingdon too far away? Do you have a DS or a DD?

Thanks for you help.

I have both DS an DD but was looking at schools for DS.