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Free access to newsletters, events and some resources as well as helpful updates and information to help you manage your sixth form. Anyone can book our national conferences. Become a member and use our CPD zone, all the tutorial resources and half-termly management webinars.​
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Overview

Tutorial programme, leadership resources & CPD zone

Getting the Grades Video Tutorial Scheme
  • Entire skills-based tutorial scheme from transition to sixth form to final exams, results day.
  • Featuring post-16 students sharing unscripted, genuione advice on how to make a success of sixth form
  • 2-year scheme. 80+ videos. Optional workbooks.
  • Each 5-6 mins video features two discussion activities to help engage students and get them talking about skills, mindset and behaviours for academic success.
  • Use in tutor time once per week or in assembly.
Leadership webinars, support & CPD zone
  • Webinar Briefings - Each half term we host member-only webinars to keep you updated on key themes pertinent to the moment e.g. census, recruitment, curriculum changes.
  • Extended webinars - longer sessions to go into greater depth eg. copying under a cyber attack, using AI in your sixth form. Invite a wider range of staff for these sessions as they often require a team approach.
  • Weekly email - members receive a weekly email with remidners of resources to use and key updates.
Conference discount and free 2nd delegate
  • Discount - member rates for our national conferences so you sve money on your membership.
  • Free extra delegate place - for our popular online conferences in November and June, after booking an initial place, members get a free second delegate from your membership centre, so you can involve another member of your managament team.

Getting the Grades Video Tutorial Scheme

Getting the Grades Video Tutorial Scheme

Our tutorial scheme delivers on the skills for academic success

Skills, behaviours and mindset for academic success
  • Central to our tutorial resources is Getting the Grades Video Tutorial Scheme
  • Being academically successful in the sixth form to deliver on student grades for their progression and value-add for school performance measures.
  • Entire skills-based tutorial scheme from transition to sixth form to final exams, results day.
  • Featuring post-16 students sharing unscripted, genuione advice on how to make a success of sixth form
  • 2-year scheme. 80+ videos. Optional workbooks.
  • Each 5-6 mins video features two discussion activities to help engage students and get them talking about skills, mindset and behaviours for academic success.
  • Use in tutor time once per week or in assembly.
Complete ready-made scheme
  • All tutors need to do is click on the relevant video, play in tutor time.
  • Pause in the middle of each video to engage in the discusison activity.
  • Pause at the end of the video for the plenary discussioin activity.
  • Your students will be learning from former post-16 students, all from state schools, across the ability range but with many who are highly aspirational.
  • Each student featured in the video also shows their final destination (course, university or apprenticeship).
Additional workbooks provided (optional)
  • If you are not into workbooks, don't worry: each video is a complete resource in itself.
  • Each video is 5-6 mins in length plus discussion, so can easily run from 10 mins to however long the tutorial discussion lasts.
  • Longer tutorial sessions? Use our Individual workbooks. One per student with extension tasks related to each video.
  • Need some way of gauging the progress through the scheme in each tutor group? Use our Class workbooks, One per tutor group. One student records the outcome form the class discussion.
  • Want to create your own scheme using the videos and workbook activities? Use our Bespoke workbooks (class or individual) which allow you to print off only the pages you want and arrnage into any order.
  • Workbooks cover Year 12/Lower and Year 13/Upper.

Add KS4 Getting the Grades Tutorial Scheme

Getting the Grades: GCSE

Help Year 10 & 11 get the best grades possible

Video tutorial scheme for GCSE
  • GCSE students were filmed 4 weeks fater completing their summer exams
  • A range of students who went on to a range of post-16 pathways, so that a mixed ability cohort will find voices with whom to identify
  • 40+ videos from choosing GCSEs, making a good
Help student gets the grades they need

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Two discussion activities feature in each 3 mins video

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