Students in the Sixth Form are considered to be young adults and are expected to set a model of good behaviour and a positive attitude to learning for students in younger years. The attached document ‘Expectations of a Year 12 student’ outlines the conduct required for every student.
Should a student be considered as underperforming or failing to meet the school’s expectations the referral procedure below will be invoked.
The structure of the referral procedure is as follows:
| Stage | Actions | |
| 1 | Failure to meet expectations in class e.g. mobile phone out, home learning not carried out, work not handed in by the deadline. | Subject teacher to meet with student to reinforce expectations and make concerns clear. Log concern as 1 on the register with note. Tutor to be informed to enable discussion/ offer support. |
| 2 | More than 2 occurrences of failure to meet expectations within a 2 week cycle | Log concern as 1 on the register with note. Subject teacher to meet with student to agree ‘Subject Action Plan’ copied to tutor and year office. Subject teacher to make phone call home. |
| 3 | Persistent failure to meet expectations over 4 week period | Log concern as 0 on the register with blog and alert Sixth form office. Parents to attend meeting with tutor and HOD to discuss the way forward and student contract drawn up. This may include going on report or attendance report |
| 4 | No improvement in student attitude to learning | Parents invited in to see Head of Sixth Form to discuss whether the students should be asked to leave the Sixth form and seek support to arrange alternative educational provision. |