Admissions

Sixth Form Admissions

Sixth Form Admissions Information

2025 ENTRY:

Applications are now open and will close at 3pm on Friday 14 February 2025. No applications will be accepted after the deadline has passed.

We expect students to create their own Applicaa account and application. Parents should not apply on behalf of their children.

Existing Applicaa accounts held by parents cannot be used to make a Sixth Form application.

Once you have registered, you will be sent an email by Applicaa whereby you must click a link to confirm your email address. Upon confirmation of your email address, you will be taken to the application form. Please click the green button below to start your application.

Sixth Form Application Form

Other information:

Conditional offers are due to be sent out in mid-March 2025 by email.

All conditional offer holders will be invited to the school for an Induction Day between 2-4 July 2025 (following GCSE exams). The aim of this is to give prospective students a glimpse of life at Newstead Wood including the activities and opportunities on offer as a student in our Sixth Form. The dates will be confirmed to conditional offer holders in late Spring 2025.

Enrolment on Results Day will take place ONLINE and applicants should not come to the School. Further information and instructions will be published nearer to Results Day 2025.

Eligibility and Entry Criteria

Entry to Year 12 is on the basis of academic ability demonstrated by achievement at GCSE. Confirmed places in Year 12 can therefore only be allocated following GCSE Results Day in August. The minimum qualification for entry into Year 12 (the entry requirements) is a minimum of 4 Grade 6s and 4 Grade 7s taken from at least 8 GCSEs completed in one sitting, and:

Grade 7 or higher in subjects to be followed to Advanced Level (or related subjects) please see our full admissions criteria here.
At least a Grade 6 in English and Mathematics
Grades at 4 or lower will not be counted

All students in the current Year 11 at Newstead Wood School who meet the entry requirements and their course requirements will automatically obtain a place.

824 applications were received for entry in 2023.

910 applications were received for entry in September 2024.

In the event of oversubscription from external candidates places will be offered to students who meet the entry criteria in the order set out in our Admissions Policy and subject to maximum set sizes not being exceeded in individual subjects. It is important to note that the school may not be able to offer places to all external applicants who meet the minimum entry criteria. A waiting list will be compiled and maintained until the end of September of Year 12.

PLEASE NOTE:

Applicants must have the legal right to be resident in the United Kingdom at the start of and for the duration of their A-Level programme.

Full GCSEs are the only qualifications considered for Entry to Sixth Form. Qualifications taken in addition to GCSEs (e.g. Free Standing Maths; AQA Certificate in Further Maths; RS Short Course) are not taken into account for the minimum qualification criteria for entry into Year 12.

If you have any questions regarding applying to Newstead Wood please contact sixthformadmissions@newsteadwood.co.uk