Applying to Thomas Tallis 16+ for 2021-2022
Application to Thomas Tallis Post-16 Centre is via an online application form. This will become live for 2021-2022 applicants on October 21 2020. We do not usually interview applicants: we use, instead, a detailed school reference. Once you've applied, we'll ask your school for this.
The key dates for 2021-2022 applicants are:
Applications: From Wednesday October 21 2020 until Monday 11 Jan 2021. Applications made after this point are considered to be late applications.
Offers made: From February 2021.
Open Afternoon for successful applicants: Summer 2021, circumstances permitting.
Taster Days: early July 2021, circumstances permitting.
Enrolment: Students must enrol in person on GCSE Results day, Thursday 12 August 2021. We are generally full for most subjects by the end of our first day of enrolment. We may open for the morning of Friday 13 August 2021 to fill our few remaining spaces.
Please note: we are oversubscribed for 2021-2022. We use the Royal Borough of Greenwich's school oversubscription criteria to decide the applicants we can make provisional offers to. All offers depend on students meeting our academic entry criteria, which are outlined in our 'Entry Requirements' document below. In brief, we make offers to children who look set to meet our academic entry requirements in the following order: children with an EHCP nominating Tallis, looked-after children, adopted children, those in Year 11 at Tallis, those at Greenwich schools, then on the basis of distance to Tallis from home address until we have reached our maximum offer number.
Applications: From Wednesday October 21 2020 until Monday 11 Jan 2021. Applications made after this point are considered to be late applications.
Offers made: From February 2021.
Open Afternoon for successful applicants: Summer 2021, circumstances permitting.
Taster Days: early July 2021, circumstances permitting.
Enrolment: Students must enrol in person on GCSE Results day, Thursday 12 August 2021. We are generally full for most subjects by the end of our first day of enrolment. We may open for the morning of Friday 13 August 2021 to fill our few remaining spaces.
Please note: we are oversubscribed for 2021-2022. We use the Royal Borough of Greenwich's school oversubscription criteria to decide the applicants we can make provisional offers to. All offers depend on students meeting our academic entry criteria, which are outlined in our 'Entry Requirements' document below. In brief, we make offers to children who look set to meet our academic entry requirements in the following order: children with an EHCP nominating Tallis, looked-after children, adopted children, those in Year 11 at Tallis, those at Greenwich schools, then on the basis of distance to Tallis from home address until we have reached our maximum offer number.
We review our timetable, our course pathways, and our entry requirements for individual subjects from year to year. For a good idea of how we work and what we expect, see below for our present plan for the details of our 2021-2022 offer. We don't anticipate the 'small print' will change very much, although we do revise our curriculum plan during each academic year.
Level 3 courses are a significant step up from those completed at Key Stage 4. You must choose your subjects carefully. Try to choose subjects that you are good at: this is why we recommend at least a 6 at GCSE in any A-level subject desired at Key Stage 5. It can be hard to stay motivated if you are struggling with a subject. Look carefully at the subject syllabus and how it is assessed. Consider which subjects ‘fit together’ and compliment each other. Finally, make sure your subject combination prepares you for your future goal, be it the world of work or higher education. If you're unsure, ask us about this!
For entry we generally require all students to have a minimum of five 4-9 qualifications at GCSE including Maths and English at 5, but provide the option for students to retake an English or Maths GCSE if necessary. It is a general recommendation that students need a 6 in the GCSE subject they intend to continue to A-level, (see the latest information, below). Students with a majority of 4 grades will take BTEC courses; only if GCSE grades are rather stronger than this will A-levels be possible. It is also worth noting that students need to achieve a D grade / Merit or above in Year 12 if we are to recommend progression in that course to Year 13.
For entry we generally require all students to have a minimum of five 4-9 qualifications at GCSE including Maths and English at 5, but provide the option for students to retake an English or Maths GCSE if necessary. It is a general recommendation that students need a 6 in the GCSE subject they intend to continue to A-level, (see the latest information, below). Students with a majority of 4 grades will take BTEC courses; only if GCSE grades are rather stronger than this will A-levels be possible. It is also worth noting that students need to achieve a D grade / Merit or above in Year 12 if we are to recommend progression in that course to Year 13.
The following table outlines our pathways for sixth form study and gives a general sense of the entry qualifications required for each. Please note: we also set specific entry requirements for particular A-level and BTEC courses, and these are also outlined below.
Please see our Recommendations and Minimum Requirements document below for more precise details of the entry requirements we set for each course that we offer. Please also see our timetable blocking: students can pick at most one course in each column. Please also remember that our timetable may change from year to year.
The table below shows our intended timetable blocking for 2021-2022. We reserve the right to change it as we need. Only one subject can be studied in each block.
