The two final years at school for students between the ages of 16 and 18 who are preparing for A or AS levels.
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In schools such as Sutton Grammar, where a dress code operates in the sixth form, everyone knows where they stand.
Girls are topping the sixth form league tables in Greater Manchester.
Students in the sixth form hope to raise even more by staging an event like a rock concert at the school.
My son is making choices about the subjects he will study in the sixth form.
Interactive white boards have replaced the old blackboards and a new sixth form area has been created for older students.
I am very relieved for her sake that there is still time for the new sixth form curriculum to be sorted out.
I used to know a teacher who took a couple of her sixth form students out in the car at lunchtime for a sly cigarette.
The sixth form was a joint one with the local boys grammar school and suddenly our classes were filled with males!
For many students sixth form study and university application is a bit of a conveyor belt.
It is claimed that as students don't wear uniform in the sixth form it is hard to identify intruders.
In his Lancashire blazer he looks more like a sixth form student than a county cricketer.
I went to a modest-sized grammar school with a sixth form rather than a huge, impersonal comprehensive.
The money will go towards the sixth form graduation ball in June.
He said she left the sixth form at the school at Christmas to pursue a career in the Army.
My sixth form tutor gave me days off to help on rescue excavations.
Now, reports the Times & Citizen, a sixth form student was jailed for six years on Monday.
As well as teaching history and careers he was also head of the sixth form.
In the sixth form, the close group of school-friends began to fragment as their A Level subjects diverged.
In the sixth form I attended it was patently obvious that the majority of girls were considerably more mature than the boys.
Teaching overall is now rated unsatisfactory for Years 7 to 11 but good in the sixth form.
Derivatives
sixth-former
nounˈsɪksθfɔːmə
British
The school achieved record A-Level results last year, and 11 of its sixth-formers went to Oxford or Cambridge.
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Year 6 pupils at Hayes Primary School in Bromley attended sessions run by Hayes Secondary School sixth-formers, preparing them for transfer to secondary school.
The sixth-formers at Allerton High School, Leeds, say their university careers could be threatened because of a printing error in a further maths AS level set by the exam board
More than a quarter of sixth-formers in the leading independent girls' schools take A-level maths and almost 12% take physics.
More than a third of people affected came from Yorkshire and the North East, mainly sixth-formers and university students.
It was hoped that sixth-formers would study four or five AS-levels, mixing the arts, humanities, languages and sciences before narrowing down their choices in the upper-sixth.
More than 1,200 questionnaires were distributed by 20 sixth-formers from Fulford Comprehensive School.
After a sixth-former at Easingwold School was confirmed to have the illness in April last year, all staff and everyone in the sixth form were offered screening.
Miss Wilson, a former sixth-former at Pickering's Lady Lumley's School worked behind the sandwich counter of their business Fine Foods in Pickering market place.
Judy Turner, leading the research at Manchester University, has been conducting psychometric tests on hundreds of university students and sixth-formers at local schools and colleges.
State grammar schools fear that their A-grade A - level students are losing out to less well-qualified sixth-formers from comprehensive schools as universities try to broaden their social mix.
Around 400 sixth-formers would be taught in mixed classes there.
‘My life was completely ripped apart on that night in May,’ said the former sixth-former at Gumley Convent School.
There is a well-established gradual decline in the numbers of sixth-formers opting for A-Level history.
It was Dallam School sixth-former Tom Salter who stole the show with three excellent wins over experienced opponents.
The eight girls, who are all sixth-formers at the school, have beaten some tough teams in the past few years.
He is to address 180 sixth-formers at Oundle School
A Swindon education leader has criticised a scheme to pay sixth-formers £30-a-week to stay on at school.
Anita, a sixth-former from Pimlico school in west London, said: ‘Kids want to be heard.’
A sixth-former from a York school has been selected from thousands of applicants from 36 countries to take part in a major student conference in the USA.