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

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Applications for September 2022 are now closed.

21 April 2022 - update - We have now responded to every applicant who completed their application and supplied a reference to support the application, as we requested. We have now reached our offer limit, and are unable to make any more offers.

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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:

February 2022 UCAS update

Offers are flooding in thick and fast for Year 13 students now.  After a brilliant round of online interviews before Christmas, Jenny J. and Alice G. both have places to read English Literature, one at Cambridge and one at Oxford, and Taslima K. has a Cambridge place for HSPS.  Kristan L. has a place to read Engineering at Imperial!  Jenny O. has a place for Law at SOAS, Harkeerat B. one for Physics at Durham - and another offer from Imperial, Eben M. one for Maths at Warwick, Lewis H. one for PPE at Manchester and Moriyike A. one for Children's Nursing at Nottingham.  Tina C. is to UCL and Jagoda Z. is heading to Brighton and Sussex medical school.

​Another 301 Tallis students have applied and already heard back.  We think we might finish the year with 320 successful university applications!

Revisions to A-level exams in summer 2022

On 7 February the government announced the promised revisions and adjustments to examination syllabi and arrangements for the summer 2022 exam session.

These are described in detail on the gov.uk website here.

A-level teachers will go over the amendments and alterations with students as apppropriate.  If students have questions about the changes to assessment arrangements, these should be directed to teaching staff.

Post-16 Results 2021

Congratulations to all our Post 16 students who picked up their results today. We are very proud of you and wish you well for the future. Stay in touch.

Pictures can be viewed and downloaded here.

UCAS 2020-2021 - Fantastic Four off to Oxbridge - and more to Med. School!

Four of our fabulous Year 13 students are to take up their places at Oxbridge.  Interviews were online just before Christmas, and shortly after we learned that Rosie D is to read Engineering, Jenny D is to read Natural Sciences, and Finley M is to read History - at Cambridge.  

Mrs Roberts observes: "We make a fuss about this not because Oxbridge is best for everyone, or training as a doctor, but because it takes a monumental effort to get comprehensive school children in. Well done to all concerned."

POST 16 ATTENDANCE
E: Mr Andy Bell

LETTERS HOME

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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!

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Thomas Tallis School 16-19 Tuition Fund Expenditure Statement 

The DFE’s 16-19 Tuition Fund for 2021-2022 is ring-fenced for the provision of small group tuition for certain groups of KS5 students whose learning was disrupted last year: students who achieved a grade 4 or below in English or Mathematics; students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), students who achieved a grade 4 or above in English and/or mathematics and are from an economically disadvantaged background and would need catch up support.
 
We are required by the DFE to publish a statement on our website explaining how we will spend this money. With this money, Thomas Tallis School intends to focus on providing small group and individual tuition in English and/or mathematics to students from the groups above who have gaps in their knowledge, or a need to improve in specific areas.

Exam Board details:

AQA
OCR
Pearson
WJEC