EDUCATION TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD
​& CHANGE IT FOR THE BETTER

Welcome to our Post 16 website. We are a highly successful sixth form centre, one of the best in Greenwich. We aim for all our students to be the best they can be academically, whilst developing morally, socially and emotionally too. A good education is about a lot more than simply getting excellent grades: it is about forming the character of a person in such a way that they excel in whatever they choose to do professionally in the future, and flourish also in their personal life. It is education to understand the world and change it for the better.

LATEST NEWS:

Awarding of Grades: Information for A-level students

OFQUAL letter to students about summer exams and assessment

Awarding of Grades: Information for BTEC students

​The announcement made on Friday 3 April by Ofqual about how GCSE and A-level grades will be awarded this year does not cover BTEC subjects. Please, keep working on BTEC coursework. We will inform you in person if the situation changes.

Information for Year 11 students who hold a Provisional Offer from Tallis Post-16 for 2020-2021

If we've made you a Provisional Offer of a place in Thomas Tallis's sixth form, it's dependent on particular GCSE grades being achieved. On April 3 2020 Ofqual explained exactly how your GCSE grades are to be calculated.  Please see their letter to students (link above) which explains how this will work. You will still need to meet our entry qualifications to be able to take up your place with us. Our entry qualifications for each of our courses can be found here.
 
We are still working on our Enrolment procedures and we will contact successful applicants to us in due course when these are finalised. In the meantime, please visit our Reading and Research page and start reading ahead about the courses you are looking to study.

Events update: all school events are cancelled

​The Post 16 Yorkshire Trip in June is now cancelled. We will refund the payment you have made to us. We have (very) provisionally moved our booking to Mon 21 Sept - Wed 23 Sept 2020. Please do ‘bookmark’ these dates for your (presently) Year 12 child. 

The Music Concert scheduled for 21 April has been cancelled.

The Year 13 Graduation Ceremony scheduled for Friday 3 July has been cancelled.  We will reschedule when we can.

School work during the period of school closure.

EDUCATION AT HOME RESOURCES

Our instructions to Year 13 students are:

1. You are fantastic and we will celebrate your passage into adulthood properly in due course when we can.  You are physically leaving school on Friday 20 March instead of rather later and so the customary well-deserved ballyhoo, jamboree and alarums and excursions cannot now go ahead.  But!  Watch this space!
2. UCAS: UCAS are presently saying that no-one will be disadvantaged by what has happened. So, reply to your UCAS offers in the normal way. We can offer advice in person until Friday 20 and Mr Wilks, Ms Lumsden and Ms McGowan will work now and into the future. Get advice before you respond about which to choose as your Firm and which to choose as your Insurance offer.  Remember: your Insurance offer must be lower than your Firm offer.
3. Exam Results. On 20 March 2020 initial guidance about how these are to be calculated was published.  As expected, teacher assessment checked against prior achievement and other statistical information will be used.  We will update again as we know more about the detail of how this will work.
4. Student Finance - complete this in the usual way.  The deadline is the 25 May for new applicants.  The link is here.
5. Continue working as directed by your teachers. Their instructions to you are posted on Insight and/or MS Teams. Although exams are cancelled this year you will receive appropriate results in the usual way on Results Day. The Government has confirmed - see 2., above - that moderated teacher assessment will be used to determine your grades and therefore we must have your best work coming in to us to be able to form a fair view of your grade. 
6. Start your reading for university - get onto the Reading Lists that your desired university course specifies and get stuck in! Get hold of the university itself if you need! They'll be impressed!
7. ​Consider extending yourself with an online course - The Open University is an outstanding place to start and their free university-level courses are here. Interested in a course from Harvard, Stanford, Imperial etc?  They're here. Stretch your head!
8. Remember the Wider Reading page - it's here.  Stuff for each subject.
9. Coursework for A-level students - for the reasons above you must complete your A-level coursework and email it to teachers. If you need feedback on it prior to submission, email it to teachers and ask for feedback electronically.
10. Coursework for BTEC students - detailed instructions about this have or will be emailed to you by BTEC staff.  You must adhere to the deadlines specified by your teachers. As with A-level coursework, if you need help or advice, contact your teachers via email and they will help insofar as they can.
11. Visual and Media Arts students - your amazing teachers are thinking hard about you. They have directed you about what to do. Please follow their advice.
12. All subjects: Do not dispose of marked exam work returned to you by your teachers. It is possible that this may be called as evidence to support the award of a grade.
13. Performance-based subjects: - we are awaiting guidance from the government about how to proceed and as soon as we have it we will let you know.
14. Art College Applicants - please contact Mr Nicholls if you have any queries.
15. World of Work students - please contact Maria Elia.

​Our instructions to Year 12 students are:

1. You are fantastic and have made a great start to sixth form study so far. We will see you soon and are already looking forward to it.
2. Continue working as directed by your teachers. Their instructions to you are posted on Insight and/or MS Teams. 
3. Work broadly in accordance with your usual timetable. Remember: good students in Year 12 work for between 30 and 35 hours a week.
4. Remember the Wider Reading page - it's here. Stuff for each subject.

Please click the button below to access resources to support education at home:​

EDUCATION AT HOME RESOURCES

POST 16 ATTENDANCE
E: Mr Andy Bell

LETTERS HOME

Exam Board details 2019-20
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​Tallis Post-16 judged Outstanding by OFSTED

Tallis Post-16 was inspected in December 2018 and the OFSTED report was published in January 2019.  See the extract from our inspection report – we think it is honest and fair. It’s also glowing! OFSTED say we offer outstanding teaching, meticulous advice about university and art colleges, are generally very well organised, are highly inclusive, are competently led – high praise! - and much else that is lovely to hear. Sometimes it’s nice to be told what you already know!