A-Level Courses

Our A Level programme is individually tailored to meet the specific needs of each student. Whether you are sitting one A Level or three A Levels, we will support you with small class sizes, highly experienced teaching staff, a wide range of practice assessment tasks, detailed feedback on how to improve your marks and mock assessments in exam conditions. Our goal is to help you achieve the grades you need to progress to University and your future career.

Your personal tutor will guide you through your journey with us and we will support you both academically and personally. Every student has access to an Enrichment programme of sessions covering a wide range of topics which include: creative thinking, study skills, revision skills, life skills, time management, university fairs and visits and UCAS applications.

Resits

You may be considering retaking your A Level exams again – or GCSEs – if you have already completed these. You may have missed the required grades for your choice of University or you may have decided that you want to achieve higher grades. We are able to create a bespoke programme for you whether this is for one A Level or up to three A Levels. We can also offer you a choice of three resit options (one year, 18 months or two years).

Enrollment

You will have a wide range of study options to choose from, depending on what your plans for the future are. We can offer you the following A Level courses over 2 years, 18 months or 1 year.

Our two-year course begins in September 2024
Our 18-month course begins in January 2025
Our one-year course begins in September 2024

Programme of Study (subject to class-size)

1. Art

2. Biology

3. Business Management

4. Chemistry

5. Economics

6. English Language / English Literature

7. Film Studies

8. French

9. Geography

10. History

11. Law

12. Maths

13. Further Maths

14. Philosophy

15. Physics

16. Politics

17. Psychology

18. Religious Studies

19. Sociology

20. Spanish

We offer an AQA Art & Design course over 2 years which includes the following options:

Fine Art

Drawing, painting, mixed-media, sculpture, ceramics, installation, printmaking, moving image (video, film, animation) and photography.

Graphic Communication

Interactive media (including web, app and game design), advertising, packaging design, design for print, illustration, communication graphics, branding, multimedia, motion graphics, design for film and television.

Textile Design

Fashion design, fashion textiles, costume design, digital textiles, printed and/or dyed fabrics and materials, domestic textiles, wallpaper, interior design, constructed textiles, art textiles and installed textiles.

Photography

Portraiture, landscape photography, still life photography, documentary photography, photojournalism, fashion photography, experimental imagery, multimedia, photographic installation and moving image (video, film, animation)

We offer an AQA Biology course which will cover a wide range of topics which include:

Biological molecules
Cells
Organisms exchange substances with their environment
Genetic information, variation and relationships between organisms
Energy transfers in and between organisms
Organisms respond to changes in their internal and external environments
Genetics, populations, evolution and ecosystems
The control of gene expression

We offer an AQA Business Studies course which covers the following topics:

What is business?
Managers, leadership and decision making
Marketing management
Operational management
Financial management
Human resource management
Analysing the strategic position of a business
Choosing strategic direction
Strategic methods: how to pursue strategies
Managing strategic change

We offer an OCR Chemistry course which covers the following modules:

Module 1 – Development of practical skills in chemistry
Module 2 – Foundations in chemistry
Module 3 – Periodic table and energy
Module 4 – Core organic chemistry
Module 5 – Physical chemistry and transition elements
Module 6 – Organic chemistry and analysis

We offer an AQA Economics course which covers the following modules:

Individuals, firms, markets and market failure
Economic methodology and the economic problem
Individual economic decision making
Price determination in a competitive market
Production, costs and revenue
Perfect competition, imperfectly competitive markets and monopoly
The labour market
The distribution of income and wealth: poverty and inequality
The market mechanism, market failure and government intervention in markets
The national and international economy
The measurement of macroeconomic performance
How the macroeconomy works: the circular flow of income, AD/AS analysis, and related concepts
Economic performance
Financial markets and monetary policy
Fiscal policy and supply-side policies
The international economy

We offer an AQA English Language course which covers the following topics:

Textual variations and representations
Language diversity
Writing skills
Methods of language analysis underpin each component:
Component 1 – 3.1.2 Methods of language analysis
Component 2 – 3.2.2 Methods of language analysis

We offer an AQA English Literature course which covers the following core content and options:

Love through the ages
Texts in shared contexts
Independent critical study: Texts across time
Options include:
Option A: WW1 and its aftermath
Option B: Modern times: literature from 1945 to the present day

We offer an OCR Film Studies course which covers the following topics and students study a wide range of film forms, from the silent era to the present day. They are introduced to the contexts and concepts of film-making and how they are used to create meaning, including:

Genre
Representation
Narrative
Aesthetics
Spectatorship

They also develop a working knowledge and understanding of the micro-elements of film form:

Cinematography (including lighting)
Mise-en-scène
Editing
Sound
Performance

We offer an AQA French course which covers the following content and options:

Social issues and trends
Political and artistic culture
Grammar
Options/Works: Literary texts and films

We offer an Edexcel Geography course which includes the following topics:

Area of study 1: Dynamic Landscapes
Topic 2: Landscape Systems, Processes and Change
Topic 2: Landscape Systems, Processes and Change
Topic 3: Globalisation
Topic 4: Shaping Places

We offer an AQA History course which includes the following components:

Component 1: Breadth study
Component 2: Depth study
Component 3: Historical investigation (Personal study)

More detailed information about the course will be provided on request.

We offer an AQA Law course which includes the following topics:

The nature of law and the English legal system
Criminal law
Tort
Options include Law of contract or Human rights

We offer an Edexcel Mathematics course which includes the following themes:

Overarching theme 1: Mathematical argument, language and proof
Overarching theme 2: Mathematical problem solving
Overarching theme 3: Mathematical modelling

We offer an Edexcel Further Mathematics course which includes the following themes:

Overarching theme 1: Mathematical argument, language and proof
Overarching theme 2: Mathematical problem solving
Overarching theme 3: Mathematical modelling

We offer an AQA Philosophy course which will includes the following topics:

Epistemology
Moral philosophy
Metaphysics of God
Metaphysics of mind

We offer an AQA Psychology course which will include the following topics:

Social influence
Memory
Attachment
Approaches in Psychology
Psychopathology
Research methods

We offer an AQA Physics course which includes the following topics:

Measurements and their errors
Particles and radiation
Waves
Mechanics and materials
Electricity
Further mechanics and thermal physics
Fields and their consequences
Nuclear physics
Options include:
Astrophysics
Medical physics
Engineering physics
Turning points in physics
Electronics

We offer an Edexcel course which includes two compulsory sections: UK Politics and Core Political Ideas.There are four content areas in UK Politics:

Democracy and participation
Political parties
Electoral systems
Voting behaviour and the media

There are three content areas in Core Political Ideas:

Liberalism
Conservatism
Socialism