We don’t take students at the start of Year 7, like most secondary schools, which means you can choose to join a bit later on, when you’ve decided it’s the right time for you to pick a more focused option.

Not having students in year 7 or 8 at our school means we can be more grown up in our approach. It makes the building feel very different to what you might have experienced before. And most importantly, we can offer a more focused curriculum.

The Studio School is an incredible, innovative computing, technology and creative secondary school and college. If you love your maths, your computing or your graphics and arts type subjects, this is a great option to explore.

Join us in Year 9 for our Ignite programme. This accelerator programme is designed to spark your passion for learning and help you accelerate your learning and skills ahead of starting your GCSEs in Year 10.

You will have a core focus on Maths, English and Science and will also take History, Geography and a modern foreign language to make sure you have a broad skill set in preparation for KS4. And then you’ll also select pathway projects that allow you to experiment and prepare to specialise in areas.

Choose two options from:

• Creative – including Art, Graphics and Photography
• Health – including Health, Social Care and Childcare
• STEAM – including Engineering and Design
• Entrepreneurship – including Business, Finance and Entrepreneurship
• Social Sciences – including Criminology, Sociology and Psychology
• Technology – including Coding, Computer Programming and Design
• Humanities – including History, Geography and World Study

You will also benefit from a coaching programme, enrichment activities and wellbeing which will help you become a rounded learner and in great shape for your GCSEs at Year 10.

If your interested send an email to [email protected] to arrange a call from a member of the Senior Team. 

If you choose The Studio School, you will most likely be thinking about a career in a creative area – so being able to take a combination of photography/ art/ creative media/ graphics/ film GCSEs could sound appealing.

Or you might be one of our budding tech tribe and be looking for things like Maths, Computer Science, Digital Information Technology.

You’ll also benefit from project-based learning, a coaching programme, enrichment, wellbeing and careers education. You will benefit from shared experiences, work with a wide range of businesses and local universities to help you prepare for the future.

See the full list here, listen to audio from our subject lead and come along to an open evening to see if The Studio is right for you.

If your interested send an email to  [email protected] to arrange a call from a member of the Senior Team. 

Year 12 is the first time you get to home in on your area of expertise. Our sixth form curriculums are specifically designed to help you towards your next step. We make a promise to all our students: If you successfully complete your programme of study with us, we guarantee you a job, apprenticeship or university place.

We have incredible programmes that will help your journey to university, support you to secure a highly competitive apprenticeship or a job. Every single Studio/ UTC student who’s completed their programme of study has achieved this.

You’ll:

• work on projects that help you towards an EPQ and give you great experiences to talk about on an application
• have opportunities to complete work experience programmes and other meaningful engagements with our employer partners.
• get unprecedented access to our University partners too, which will help you prepare for undergraduate studies.
• build a strong network across the sector you have chosen by the time you finish with us.

Click here to download a Sixth Form Prospectus

Appeals

The Studio will act in accordance with, and will ensure that an Independent Appeal Panel is trained to act in accordance with, all relevant provisions of the School Admissions Code and the School Admissions Appeals Code published by the Department for Education (“the Codes”), as they apply at any given time to academies; and with equalities law and the law on admissions as they apply to academies. For this purpose, reference in the Codes or legislation to “admission authorities” shall be deemed to be references to the governing body of The Studio.

Parents may submit an appeal to the independent appeal panel for unsuccessful applications. At KS5 both the parent and pupil have a separate right of appeal.

Parents/Carers may submit an appeal if their child’s application is unsuccessful.  The appeals should be on the Appeal Form and should be submitted by 7^th July 2023. Appeals hearings will take place on 12^th July 2023. If an appeal is lodged after the 7^th July 2023, the hearing will take place within 30 school days of the date on which it was lodged.

Sixth form appeals, where the offer of a place would have been conditional upon exam results, will be heard within 30 school days of the confirmation of the results.

For full information on the process, click here for our admissions policy