Hetton School Sixth Form

Hetton School in partnership with Seaham School of Technology and City of Sunderland College has established a brand new shared sixth form, named Headways, located at the City of Sunderland College campus called the Bede Centre.  All of our young people who join Hetton School will now get a seamless education from 11 to 18.  The Head Teachers of the two Secondary Schools, Mr Keay for Hetton School and Mr Shield for Seaham School are Associate Principals of the Sixth Form and have appointed John Rushworth as the Head of Sixth Form.

Headways Sixth Form offers both an academic route via A-levels and also a vocational route via BTEC Diplomas.  For A-levels, there are 35 subjects available including:

Biology	Business Studies	Chemistry	Classical Civilisation
Computing	Dance	Drama and Theatre Studies	English Language and English Literature
English Language	English Literature	Film Studies	Fine Art
French	General Studies	Geography	German
Government and Politics	Graphics	History	Information Technology Applied
Law	Mathematics Further	Mathematics	Media Studies
Music	Photography	Physical Education	Physics
Product Design	Psychology	Religious Studies	Science (Applied)
Sociology	Spanish	Textiles

For the vocational route, the sixth form offers BTEC Diplomas, at a range of levels, in the following:

Applied Medical Science	Business	Customer Service and Retail
Childcare	Health and Social Care	ICT
Sport Studies

The achievement of students’ in 2009/10 was outstanding as demonstrated by

• 99% average pass rate in both A-level subjects and Vocational Courses
• 883 students to University in October 2010, a 24% increase from the previous year
• an outstanding OFSTED Report in March 2010 where the Inspectors stated that the “quality of teaching was excellent”
• top of the City of Sunderland A-level league table 2009 as shown on the DFE Website

 

Hetton School is proud of the contribution it has made to these outstanding achievements.