Welcome to our Sixth Form

Registration with your tutor. You have daily contact time with your tutor who provides helpful advice on your work and life at Highgate. Your tutor will monitor your academic progress and provide guidance on looking ahead to higher education and careers.

Your first lesson of the day begins. When starting in our Sixth Form, you take four academic subjects and your timetable will also include PSHE, critical method, and sport and exercise periods. You will have 12 lessons per fortnight allocated to each academic subject. Each lesson lasts 50 minutes, with a five-minute changeover between lessons.

The first break of the day. You will have two tutor slots, one year group assembly, one house meeting, and one religious assembly per week. In the other half of your breaktime slot, you will have the opportunity to relax with your peers in one of our Sixth Form common rooms, go into Highgate Village, or catch up on some work in the Library.

Lessons resume. In Year 12, you will have three to four periods of private study each fortnight. During these periods, you work unsupervised, so you need to be self-motivated! You can also make use of our common rooms, reading room and Sixth Form study space in our Library.

You can take a short walk with friends to our nearby Dining Hall, which serves a range of hot and cold food. There is also time for lunchtime clubs, talks and debates, plus music lessons and rehearsals. From January in Year 12, departments begin extensive classes and all Sixth Formers are expected to attend at least one per week to help with preparation for future study at university.

Your next lesson begins. For Year 12, this could include our one-year Critical Methods course or in Year 13, this could include our one-term course in Critical Independence. On Wednesday afternoons, you’ll take one of  many options in sport and exercise.

After two more lessons, school ends and after-school activities take place until 5.30pm on certain days. Our Library remains open until 6pm if Sixth Formers wish to study or collect books.