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Choosing between North London Sixth forms - APS or Woodhouse?

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FancyAnOlive · Today 09:42

DD has offers for both APS and Woodhouse to do History, English Lit and Classics (plus Philosophy at APS as you do a 4th A level for Y12). She is finding it hard to decide. She really liked Woodhouse on the offer holder day and likes idea of 6th form college but is very unenthused by History A Level curriculum there (Stuart kings and Cold War). OTOH History at APS looks fantastic for her - Germany from end WW1 to fall Berlin wall, Mussolini and Italian fascism and British social reform 1728 - 1920ish. But she is put off by reputation for strictness and having to do a 4th A level for a year. History content really important to her as she thinks she wants to do it at Uni, but she is also really independent and has gone to a fairly flexible school up to now. Does anyone have recent/current experience of either sixth form, particularly History at either? My own feeling is that Woodhouse seems a bit impersonal and I hear pastoral care not that great - but I also fear that APS is a bit punitive and rigid. Would love to hear from anyone with experience of either!

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EdgarAllenRaven · Today 09:46

My experience is from almost 30 years ago but yes Woodhouse was very impersonal, there were lots of free periods and they expected you to do a lot of independent study. As a result my friends and I all performed worse in our A levels than at GCSE…
I think strictness would have helped as we really didn’t do much studying!
Nobody really loved it tbh… though we did make some great friends from that time.

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