Sixth Form
WELCOME TO RH6
Sixth form admissions 2025
Sixth Form Open Evening was held on Thursday 7th November 2024, 5.30pm - 8.30pm.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for a brilliant evening - we hope you found it informative and enjoyable.
If you have any questions following Open Evening, please email us.
The evening formally began at 5.30pm, with the first subject talks at 5.40pm and the main presentation held at 7pm.
There were talks on all A Level subjects, with most taking place three or more times. Here is the schedule of subject talks for Open Evening, to show you how the evening is planned: Open Evening schedule.
Application to RH6
Application for entry into Rugby High School Sixth Form is now open!
Download your RH6 Application Form
Your completed application form is due by Friday 20th December 2024, 5pm.
Guidance Meetings
After application, individual guidance meetings are held for external students to discuss their option choices. The discussion is intended to ensure that all students make informed choices.
Year 12 Orientation Day
Students who have applied to RH6 will be invited to come to their RH6 Orientation Day in July 2025. We will be sharing more of what RH6 life is like.
The day enables students to enjoy some A Level taster lessons, meet some of their teachers and gain insight into Sixth Form life.
Confirmed places in RH6
Provisional offers of places are made subject to the entry requirements being met. Confirmed places will be allocated following GCSE results day in August 2024. The entry requirement for the Sixth Form is normally a minimum of 6 grade 6s. In addition, there are specific GCSE requirements for individual subjects.
A Level Results Day: Thursday 14th August 2025
We look forward to seeing our Year 13 students on results day on Thursday, 14th August 2025, to collect their A Level results.
Students will be able to collect their results between 8.30am – 11.00 a.m. They should come to the main reception at school. Parents / Carers you are welcome to accompany them if you wish. If our students have any queries following the receipt of results there will be help, guidance and advice on hand in school.
Please see this previous letter from 2024 with some information from UCAS, detailing what happens on results day.
Invitation to Year 13 Parents/Carers
Option blocks
The option blocks for students who started their A Levels to start in September 2024 can be viewed here.
Our Vision for RH6
At Rugby High School Sixth Form, we set heights in our heart.
In Year 12 and 13 we continue to strive for excellence for all, in all its forms. We retain all the values and highest standards of our school, whilst encouraging and enabling greater independence. Our aim as a Sixth Form is to encourage our students to be ambitious and creative thinkers, to face challenges, to work together, to learn to apply and adapt their knowledge and understanding as a co-educational Sixth Form so that they are prepared and excited for the future, whatever it may bring.
Our aspiration is that all our students understand what it is to show compassion and empathy and to take responsibility as brave, independent global citizens. We welcome RHS students and joiners alike, and encourage all our Sixth formers to take on leadership and responsibility, and to get involved in all aspects of school life.
Our Sixth Formers will move on from Rugby High School knowing how to be Resilient, Healthy and Successful, ready for the next stage in their lives and educational journeys.
Our RH6 philosophy is to “stay curious” and we strive to nurture a love of learning so that our students will leave us with a confident voice and open mind, ready to take their place, knowing that their actions have the potential to change the world.
Senior Student leadership team 2024
Head girl: Joanna Sathyaseelan
Head boy: Yousef Alawi
Senior prefects: Ariana Boga, Jack Cooke, Eva Diaz-Aliste, Kim Oyugi
Updated Dress Code for Sixth Form
Our Sixth Form dress code is designed to enable students to have more autonomy, compared to wearing a uniform, whilst promoting a positive and professional image that enables students to be role models for the rest of the school, and feel smart and ready to work.
Our aim is to make the dress code gender and culturally inclusive, practical and affordable. We want to prepare our Sixth Formers for the working world, and as such, adherence to a dress code is good preparation for many professional roles. Looking smart and wearing appropriate clothing is one way in which our students show care, kindness and respect and feel confident. Crucially, they are school leaders and role models for the rest of the school and this needs to be shown through their appearance.
At RH6 we do recognise that many workplaces are increasingly flexible towards dress codes. In keeping with this we have updated our dress code and you can read it here.
Watch a quick tour of RH6 from our Senior Student Leadership Team 2021 :
To find out more about life at RH6:
Click here to access our archive of Virtual Open Evening Videos and A Level Course Information
Rugby High Sixth Form
Why choose Rugby High School?
"It's the best decision I've made for my education."
“I genuinely love going to my lessons and I'm lucky to have the teachers I have.”
- One of the best state schools in the UK
- A Levels in 2024 :
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37.7% of grades awarded to students this year were an A* - A Grade.
64.9% of grades awarded to students this year were an A* - B Grade.
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Academic Excellence
We are a school that achieves grades well above the national averages at every grade.
The focussed academic challenge and pastoral support, the responsibility and independence offered ensures you leave Rugby High School with all the skill, qualifications and resilience necessary to be successful.
Students normally need 6 grade 6s (or the equivalent) at GCSE. We expect students to take three full A Levels over the two years in Sixth Form and if you have gained at least 5A*/grade 8s at GCSE, you may do four subjects. The staff at Rugby High are highly committed and experienced in teaching both boys and girls; we have the skills, expertise and track record to assure continued success.
We acknowledge that there is a world of difference between studying for GCSEs and the more focused and academic rigour required of A Level study - we don’t want that to be a leap, but more a sequence of supported steps. So we provide individual study skills support to ensure you complete the full 2 year A Level qualifications with confidence.
Support and Guidance
We offer superb pastoral support and guidance. Key staff in the 6th Form Leadership Team are:
The Head of Sixth Form – Mrs Olga Dermott-Bond: dbondo@rugbyhighschool.co.uk
Assistant Head of Sixth Form - Dr Patrick Carr: p.carr@rugbyhighschool.co.uk
Sixth Form Administrator - Mrs Claire Billington: c.billington@rugbyhighschool.co.uk
Assistant Pastoral Manager - Mrs Louise Thompson: l.thompson@rugbyhighschool.co.uk
Learning Mentor – Lara Hutton: l.hutton@rugbyhighschool.co.uk
The team is also supported by an experienced team of tutors who see students on a daily basis.
There is also a team of experienced PSHE teachers who provide support and information on a wide range of relevant topics; driving, sex education, drugs awareness and global issues. A large part of the guidance for Year 12 and Year 13 is based on their future plans. The school guides students through the UCAS process with advice on personal statements, talks from different universities and information on apprenticeships and gap years. Specialist help is also available for Oxbridge, medicine and veterinary science applications. In the summer term, the school takes all of Year 12 to the UCAS convention and a whole day off timetable is dedicated to different career options called Next Steps Day.
Enrichment
Sport and Fitness: Students will be able to take part in up to 3 periods of fitness activities a week
Extended Project Qualification (EPQ)
Example Lunchtime Co-Curricular Activities:
| Monday | Dodgeball, Creative Writing, Med Bio Soc |
| Tuesday | Debate Soc, EDT Industrial Cadets Gold |
| Wednesday | Climate Coalition, Philosophy club, EDT Industrial Cadets Gold, Psych Soc |
| Thursday | Production Rehearsal |
| Friday | Basketball, Classics, Production Band, Computer Science Club |
Wednesday afternoons: PE in Sports Hall
Personal Development Opportunities
We also recognise that to be successful in today’s world, students need much more than just academic qualifications, therefore we offer a range of opportunities for students to develop skills which are highly regarded and valued by employers and universities. These include;
- Young Enterprise
- Duke of Edinburgh
- Student Council
- Work Experience
- Volunteering
- Posts of responsibility- Senior Student Leadership Team
- House Captains
- Sports Captains
- Form Liaison Officers
- Reading and Spelling mentors
- Subject mentors
Results and Beyond
Academically, we are a hugely successful school. We are equally very proud of those students who take gap years and work in communities across the globe as well as those who secure apprenticeships in companies such as Jaguar Land Rover, Deloitte and the BBC.
We trust that our students will leave Rugby High emotionally and academically ready to move on to the next stage of their lives. We hope that our students will carry with them fond memories of book character fancy dress day, raising money for local charities, taking part in the Sixth Form Entertainment production or attending various balls, and that they will realise just how special a place Rugby High School is.
We hope that you will come and join us too.
*** Just 11 minutes from Coventry/22 minutes from Northampton by train***
*** Dedicated Sixth Form Parking***
E-mail: sixthformadmissions@rugbyhighschool.co.uk
