A-level MoiraHouse
Moving into the Sixth Form is a significant stage in a young woman’s life. It is in the Sixth Form that the first chance to study…
Earlscliffe is a small, residential college where each student will find support and encouragement all as they at first settle in and then proceed to make their own mark on the college.
As students progress through A-Level studies and, with their guidance, make university applications in their final year and then push on to attain their academic aims and objectives, they will forge lasting friendships and lead gloriously busy lives as self- motivated young men and women.
Earlscliffe offers a personalised education like no other college of its kind. It is a unique experience, drawing on the traditions and methods of Oxbridge colleges, top public schools, Ivy League universities and government-led best practice.
A Levels are completed over two years with a ‘whole’ A Level comprising As Level units normally taken in the first year and A2 units taken in the second year. These units are externally examined. The A Level teaching is rigorous: the school allocates nine lessons (6hrs 45 mins) to each main subject per week.
All Earlscliffe students will ordinarily choose four subjects at As Level and continue these same four to A2. One of these four subjects would usually be a student’s own language. Almost all of the subjects on offer at Earlscliffe are seen as ‘traditional’ subjects and therefore readily accepted by the UK’s best universities. Students choose one subject from each of the option blocks A, B, C & E and may take an extra subject from D:
Block A: Geography or History or Mathematics or Photography
Block B: Art or Business Studies or Chemistry or Economics
Block C: Biology or Government and Politics or Physics or Mathematics
Block D: English Literature or Further Mathematics
Block E: Arabic or Chinese or French or German or Japanese or Persian or Portuguese or Russian or Spanish or Turkish or another language on request
Block F: IELTS Tuition
Homework is completed in the evenings and at weekends. While many students do less homework on Saturdays, almost all use Sundays to do some serious, extended study in their own time.
Each A-Level subject has an extended reading section, with books and texts recommended as additional reference material. Students have access to daily newspapers and weekly journals like ‘The Economist’, ‘The New Scientist’ and ‘The Spectator’ – titles they should be reading in their free time to improve their understanding of the wider issues relating to their academic subjects.
