Admissions - Sixth Form 2025

We hope that many of our current Year 11 students stay and join our Sixth Form and we look forward to welcoming lots of new students to experience our vibrant Sixth Form.

Applying for Great Baddow High School Sixth Form

Our Sixth Form Open Evening will take place on Wednesday 23^rd October 2024.

Registration for the evening will be in our diner.

External Students: There will be an introductory talk to external students at 5.30pm followed by a short tour.

Current GBHS Year 11 Students: There will be an introductory talk to current GBHS students at 6.15pm.

We would ask people to register in the diner 15 minutes prior to the start of the talks. The talks will provide information about the application process as well as a brief outline about our sixth form. We would ask all students new to our school to try to attend the first talk as this will give you a much greater understanding of our school and our ethos.

Subject areas will then open when the talks have finished. The evening will finish at 8.00 p.m.

The Sixth Form brochure below provides information about studying at Great Baddow High School Sixth Form.

Great Baddow High School Sixth Form Brochure

Great Baddow High School Sixth Form Course Guide

Sixth Form Virtual Tour

Application Form

Applications to apply for a place in Great Baddow High School Sixth Form for September 2025 will be available from Thursday 24^th October 2024. Applications will close on Friday 13^th December.

Application Process

Course Information

We are constantly responding to changes in education as the courses we offer reflect this. There is an option in the online application form to let us know of a subject you might be interested in.

Academic Study

All students have the opportunity to study either A Levels, vocational courses or a combination of both. We have three pathway opportunities open to students. The pathway they can chose will be based on their 'best 8 scores at GCSEs, including maths and the best English grade'. If a student has not passed GCSE maths or English, they will be required to resit this when they join the Sixth Form.

For A Levels, we recommend a minimum of a Grade 6 if you have taken a GCSE in that subject. For some subjects, e.g. Chemistry and Physics, a Grade 7 is required. For more details of the requirements needed for each subject, please see the course guide.

Option Block Choices

Once our applications have closed in December, we then work hard to create option blocks that allow for as many people as possible to access the choices they want. The option blocks for September 2025 will be available on the website once the Sixth Form team have spoken to students and finalised these.

We are also happy to provide Sixth Form tours to students wanting to join us from other schools. These take place following our Open Evening. Please email sixthformenquiries@gbhs.co.uk for more details.