The Sixth Form College Farnborough

Overview

The report describes a college where students “greatly enjoy their time” and benefit from “very high levels of mutual respect.” Leaders maintain a “highly aspirational” vision, ensuring students succeed academically and flourish personally through expert teaching and robust support systems.

Strengths

• Students “concentrate hard in lessons” and are “enthused by the high levels of passion that teachers have for their subjects.”
• The curriculum is carefully designed so students “rapidly develop connections across different topics” and fill learning gaps effectively.
• Staff provide “precise and timely feedback,” enabling students to understand their strengths and improve work quality.
• There is “very high levels of support” for students with high needs, who participate fully and make “good, and often excellent progress.”
• Students receive “clear, useful and impartial advice” for careers and university applications, proceeding to courses of their choosing with confidence.

Areas to improve

• The report states leaders focus on improving “the very small number of courses that underperform,” but identifies no significant systemic areas for improvement.

Safeguarding

The arrangements for safeguarding are effective, with staff recording concerns in detail and following them up “assiduously” while actively addressing issues such as sexual harassment.