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A good compromise between school and a sixth form college, with an extraordinary range of subjects on offer. Tends to suit the motivated and the self-starter, but not ideal for those who will be distracted by studying on a number of sites or who require the disciplined parameters of a school sixth form to function at their peak.
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Headteacher
Co-directors
Ella Schlesinger & Mayo Ogunlabi - co directors
Since 2019, Ella Schlesinger and Mayo Ogunlabi. They have their job cut out as working across four schools is complicated. Ensuring consistency across four large comprehensive sixth forms is, in particular, no mean feat, especially when the wellbeing
Entrance
LaSWAP has some 1,000 pupils. The number has slightly declined over the past few years because of other schools across London who have opened sixth forms. New entrants make up approximately 40 per cent of year 12. The entrance procedure is intricate,
- Open days
- January and November
Exit
Destinations are ‘outstanding’, and LaSWAP has a significantly above national average success rates to university in general, and Russell Group specifically – the most popular choices are Sussex and London universities, but across a wide range of
Latest results
School won't release results for 2022. In 2019 (the last pre-pandemic results), 17 per cent A*/A at A level (44 per cent A*-B).
Teaching & learning
These four comprehensives, geographically within a few hundred metres of each other, created an amalgamated sixth form to provide the widest possible subject variety and range of qualifications. Lucky sixth formers here have a choice of a remarkable
- Qualifications taken in 2024
- A level
- BTEC
- EPQ
- VRQ
Arts & extracurricular
The extracurricular here is a significant part of what LaSWAP has to offer, being as varied and extensive as the academic range. The activities, which largely take place on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, provide 35 options, from ballet and
Sport
Sport is a biggie here and students with an interest in sports coaching and working with young people can enrol on the sports education and training programme which consists of level 1, 2 and 3 qualifications. If successful, students can progress
Ethos & heritage
The four schools (La Sainte Union, an all-girls Catholic school, William Ellis, an all-boys former grammar school, Acland Burghley, a co-ed comprehensive, and Parliament Hill, an all-girls comprehensive) decided to unite their sixth form offering
Pastoral care, inclusivity & discipline
All students register at their base school, where they take most of their lessons. Here they have a head of year and a tutor who monitors their work and wellbeing, with regular interviews to discuss problems and set appropriate targets. Also a
Pupils & parents
Students from a huge range of ethnic and social backgrounds apply from a vast swathe of north London. Despite the consortium’s leafy surroundings on the eastern edge of Hampstead Heath, all four schools are inner-city comprehensives with a
The last word
A good compromise between school and a sixth form college, with an extraordinary range of subjects on offer. Tends to suit the motivated and the self-starter, but not ideal for those who will be distracted by studying on a number of sites or who
