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Sixth Form
It was lovely to welcome the Sixth Form to Ramshill this year, as always, marked by blistering sunshine after a late holiday period of cloud and rain. It was weather to match the optimism and ambition of our students.
The new Lower Sixth arrived in Ramshill to be welcomed by the Sixth Form Team and it was great to see how welcoming the students were to those who had arrived from other schools. It was far from a gentle ‘easing in’ to the new school year however, as they were put through their paces confirming their subject choices and listening to a lecture on study skills from Elevate Education. Much was done to help the new Sixth Form students settle in, such as the Captains’ Mexican lunch, the dodgeball tournament and the annual trip to Calshot, which has added some exciting new activities since last year.
The Upper Sixth returned to what is probably the toughest term of their school life, where the workload steps up once again at the same time as UCAS applications need completing. I must thank the Personal Tutors, who work so hard to ensure the students’ UCAS applications are the very best that they can be, and the hard work paid off with some fantastic university offers. The students really do continue to impress year after year, and it is a truism to say that often our busiest students achieve the best academically, too. It is impressive to see how they balance their increasingly challenging academic work with all of their extra-curricular activities. Of course, the usual end of year was taken away from the class of 2020, and alongside missing the exams they were also denied the London Dinner, Prefects’ Dinner, Leavers’ Day and, most notably, the Sixth Form Ball. They were hugely impressive in the way they kept going with the Churcher’s to Campus courses, and the way they endured the four days between results day on 13 August and the government U-turn on 17 August with such fortitude. Although the passage of some to university may have been delayed, we wish all of the students, wherever life may take them, all the very best for a successful future; after all they have been through, they deserve it.
The Upper Sixth were not the only ones who suffered with the closure of the school. Tribute must also be paid to the Lower Sixth who continued working through their syllabuses remotely, and who did exceptionally well to adjust to a new way of working, as did the staff. We hope that the end of their time at school will enable them to enjoy the usual end of year festivities, and of course a normal exam season! Holly Milner and Ben Williams proved excellent Captains of College and were ably supported by Kirsty Foreman and Alec Murray.
Mr B Baker
