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.

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Click the button below to access the timetable for the Year 12 & 13 Summer Assessments:

Post 16 Assessments Timetable

Letters related to the timetable can be found on the Letters Home page.

Application Update ​

​If you have made an application to Tallis Post 16 for September 2021 admission, please be aware we are currently in the process of requesting and sorting through academic references from your current schools, then making offers. 

We have had an extremely high number of external applicants this year (c. 1200+ for what will be somewhere between 200 and 250 places) and it is going to take us a while to sort through them fairly, using Greenwich's oversubscription criteria for 16-19 admissions, which are here. 

At the time of writing - 23 April 2021 - we have been able to process all applicants who attend Royal Borough of Greenwich schools.  The list of these schools is here.  We anticipate being able to move on to applicants who attend non-RBG schools in early May 2021.
 
Thank you for your patience,
 
The Tallis Post 16 Admissions Team

Awarding Grades to Year 13 students

On 25 February 2021 the government issued instructions about how grades are to be awarded to Year 13 students this year.  

As the government instruct, we have scheduled a final assessment period just after Easter.  Curriculum areas have decided on the assessments that will take place in that time, using exam board-generated materials where appropriate. The schedule for this is above on this website, and has been given to each student along with additional details of the assessments we will set.  Teachers will then refer to the results of these assessments and other evidence available from across the course for each student in order to generate a holistic grade.  There will then be a quality assurance process before grades are submitted in June 2021.  More details about the government’s plan is here.

Masks on-site

In line with the government guidelines, we would strongly prefer all non-exempt sixth form students to wear a mask or face-covering when on site.  This means when moving around the building, and in classrooms and study areas. Students who believe themselves to be exempt may obtain a sticker for their lanyard from their Head of Year.​

Fabulous 5 off to Oxbridge - and more to Med. School!

Five of our fabulous Year 13 students have won places at Oxbridge.  Interviews were online just before Christmas, and acceptance letters came out this week.  Rosie D is to read Engineering, Jenny D is to read Natural Sciences, Finley M is to read History, and Harry S is to read Maths - at Cambridge.  At the Other Place, Morgan M is to read History.  Meanwhile, Rhianne B and Louis T are set to become doctors in due course.  Congratulations to them all!

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."

Our POST 16 OPEN EVENING (ONLINE) took place on 
WEDNESDAY 21 OCTOBER 2020.

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!

POST 16 ATTENDANCE
E: Mr Andy Bell

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Thomas Tallis School 16-19 Tuition Fund Expenditure Statement 

The DFE’s 16-19 Tuition Fund for 2020-2021 is ring-fenced for the provision of small group tuition for certain groups of KS5 students whose learning was disrupted last year: students with an Education Health Care Plan (EHCP); students who achieved a grade 4 or below in English or Mathematics; students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). 
 
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, so that they may retake their English and/or maths GCSE with a better prospect of success. ​