At Sixth Form, we are committed to providing comprehensive support to ensure every student succeeds. Our dedicated team of tutors and subject teachers are here to offer guidance in both academic and personal development. We provide tailored advice on university applications, career planning, and well-being. Students also have access to a range of resources, including study skills workshops to help them thrive both in their studies and beyond. Your success is our priority, and we are here to support you every step of the way.
Pastoral Support
At Light Hall Sixth Form, our students benefit from dedicated pastoral support throughout their time with us. Our pastoral managers, Miss Morgan and Mr Masood, are non-teaching members of staff, so they are available throughout the day to support students with worries or safeguarding concerns. They will also actively monitor attendance, absence and punctuality. It is widely understood that good attendance relates directly to positive outcomes. Therefore, we are committed to promoting good attendance, and will implement support systems to improve attendance, where needed.
To contact them directly with any safeguarding concern, please email:
Miss Morgan: rmorgan@lighthall.co.uk
Mr Masood: umasoon@lighthall.co.uk
Personal Tutors
The Sixth Form personal tutors will oversee the personal welfare and academic progress of students throughout Years 12 and 13. They will not only respond to individual student needs but also follow a Sixth Form mentoring programme designed to best support students at key points throughout the year.
For example, students will benefit from mentoring conversations, individual target setting and transition and organisation support in Year 12 and UCAS advice and exam stress support in Year 13. Students will also have individual one-to-one progress reviews scheduled during their two years to allow time to reflect upon their academic progress and discuss any personal issues they may be experiencing.
Student progress and well-being are important to us here at Light Hall, and we will do everything we can to try to ensure that your time with us is as enjoyable and productive as possible.
Form | House | Form Teacher | Contact Address |
6AHBE | Atlantis | H Begum | |
6CSJA | Challenger | S Javed | |
6DCBA | Discovery | C Barbour | |
6EADU | Endeavour | A Duckworth |
Students with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities
For all students, but particularly those with additional needs, starting Sixth Form can be an exciting, but daunting step. By choosing Light Hall Sixth Form, students will either remain, or become, part of the Light Hall family, and like any family, they will be supported to feel safe at all times and to thrive in their education and wider development.
All students at Light Hall are encouraged to be active members of the school community and to be involved in all enrichment activities, clubs and opportunities available. To support this, close home-school links will either continue or be established, and all students will have equal opportunities to take part in all activities.
For enquiries about your son/daughter’s support,please email our SENDco, Miss Ali, hali@lighthall.co.uk.
Support Staff
In the Sixth Form, we work hard to promote a balance between the structure that students may have been familiar with in their Key Stage 4 studies, while increasing their independence. Students with special educational needs, disability or long-term illnesses will be given tailored support.
Included students will have the support of our Learning Support Assistants (LSAs). Based in the Hive, LSAs are on hand to support students in building good study habits, talk through queries and concerns and provide other personalised support. The Hive can also be used as a calm workspace for students during their study periods. If you have had the support from a particular LSA previously, and would like to continue working with them, they can continue to be your main contact.
You may also have weekly support meetings if this is helpful to you.
Access Arrangements
Students with special educational needs may be entitled to receive specified access arrangements during their assessments. Such arrangements can include the use of a laptop, the use of a scribe, sitting assessments in a separate room and having extra time.
Students who used arrangements in their GCSE exams will be eligible to continue with these throughout their A-Level studies. If you are a Light Hall student, this will automatically continue. If you are coming to us from another school, they will pass this information on to us. If you’re unsure if you are eligible for accessing these arrangements, please let us know.
These arrangements are intended to address the disadvantages that these students may otherwise face in their ability to perform to the best of their ability in examinations.
If you have any queries, please email sixthform@lighthall.co.uk.
Child Protection & Safeguarding
Here at Light Hall, we are committed to the highest standards of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children and young people in our care. We have robust processes and procedures in place to which all staff are trained and adhere to. We recognise that sadly, some students may be the victims of bullying, neglect, physical, sexual and emotional abuse. As a result of this, sometimes we may need to share information and work in partnership with other agencies when there are concerns about a young person’s welfare. We will ensure that our concerns are discussed with the young person and their parents/carers or young person first, as appropriate, unless we have reason to believe that such an action would be contrary to the person’s welfare. We will do everything we can to support our students and you can be assured that any action we take will be in the best interests of the young person.
Financial Support
Free School Meals
Eligible post-16 students can receive ‘Free School Meals’ through the government scheme of the same name. Students who received Free School Meals at Light Hall, in Year 11, and who are still eligible, will automatically continue on the scheme. Students will continue to use their lunch card to purchase food and drinks from the school. The allowance for students in Sixth Form reflects the slightly higher prices of food and drinks in the Sixth Form café.
Students who received Free School Meals at another Solihull-based secondary school will automatically be eligible to receive the funding with us. After you are enrolled with us, your previous school will share this information with us, so that our records can reflect your eligibility. You will be provided with a ParentPay account and a lunch card.
If you received Free School Meals at a school not in Solihull or did not receive Free School Meals in Year 11 but think you may now be eligible, you should make an application to Solihull Council. They will inform us of any successful applications.
You can access the council’s website to apply here.
16-19 Bursary
The 16-19 Bursary Fund Award offers financial support to eligible students, for them to purchase books, equipment, business-dress clothing, travel passes and more. Students who are eligible for free school meals, are in care, or whose parents are on a means-tested benefit may be eligible. For more details, please see our full Bursary Policy here.
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