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Key Stage 5 Curriculum

Key Stage 5 Curriculum

Key Stage 5 – Preparing for Your Destination

Engineering Your Future, Today.

Welcome to the Sixth Form at WMG Academy. Whether you are continuing your journey with us or joining our community for the first time, you are entering an environment designed to bridge the gap between education and the professional world.

At WMG Academy, we are more than just a school; we are a hub of innovation. Partnered with the University of Warwick and industry giants like Jaguar Land Rover, National Grid, and Rolls-Royce, we provide a unique “business-like, business-led” experience. Our students don’t just learn from textbooks they solve real-world problems using £2M of world-class equipment and work alongside the very experts who are shaping the future of global industry.

A Message from our Head of Sixth Form

“In our Sixth Form, we don’t just aim for academic excellence; we aim for professional readiness. My goal is to ensure every student leaves us not only with top-tier qualifications but with the confidence, resilience, and technical expertise to lead the next generation of engineers and innovators. We treat you as the professionals you are becoming.”

– Mrs Jasvir Kaur, Head of Sixth Form and Teacher of Business

Sixth Form at WMG Academy is designed to bridge the gap between education and the professional world.

Students join a mature, specialist STEM environment where academic study sits alongside technical learning, employer engagement and outstanding careers and destinations support. Our curriculum is designed around students’ aspirations, with guidance to help each young person choose a programme that supports their future career, university or apprenticeship plans.

Flexible Pathways

Most students follow a programme equivalent to at least three Level 3 qualifications, choosing an appropriate pathway from A Levels, technical and vocational qualifications or a T Level.

Key Stage 5 Curriculum Pathways 2026

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The current Sixth Form curriculum includes subjects and pathways such as:

A Levels

Technical, vocational and alternative academic qualifications

T Levels

Students can also choose to complete an Extended Project Qualification (EPQ), allowing them to explore an area of personal interest through independent research, design or practical project work.

The breadth of the current Post-16 offer reflects the Academy’s commitment to combining traditional STEM study with specialist technical routes.

Teaching and Learning in Sixth Form

Sixth Form students are treated as the young professionals they are becoming.

Teaching develops advanced subject knowledge while expecting students to become increasingly independent, organised and confident. Depending on their programme, learning may include lectures and classroom teaching, laboratory and practical work, independent research, technical projects, coursework and employer-set challenges.

Our industry links are particularly important at Key Stage 5. Students benefit from opportunities for employer and university engagement, careers activities, projects, work experience and industry placements.

T Levels take this relationship even further, combining substantial technical study with extended industry placements and employer-designed learning.

All Year 12 students also participate in a pastoral and enrichment programme, incorporating employer and university engagement alongside careers and destinations guidance.

Assessment in Years 12 and 13

Assessment reflects the qualification being studied and can include:

Progress is normally reported as a working-at grade, with targets based primarily on students’ GCSE outcomes.

Teachers use assessment continuously to identify strengths, address gaps and prepare students for the specific requirements of their qualifications. As students approach Year 13 examinations and assessments, there is an increasing focus on mastery, examination technique, independent study and preparation for progression.

Google Classroom supports communication, resources, assignments and feedback, while students are expected to manage their time, meet deadlines and take responsibility for completing independent work.

Learning With a Destination in Mind

Every element of the Sixth Form experience is designed with progression in mind. Students are supported to explore university, higher and degree apprenticeships and employment, with the curriculum, employer experiences and careers programme working together to help them make informed and ambitious decisions.

WMG Academy’s employer-backed approach is designed to ensure students leave with more than a set of qualifications: they leave with knowledge, technical expertise, professional experience and a clear understanding of where their skills can take them.

STEM Curriculum

 

Key Stage 5 (Sixth Form)

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In the sixth form (Key Stage 5) options include A-levels, technical qualifications or a combination of both.
Find full details of our Year 12 curriculum.

Download full details of our Key Stage 5 curriculum here.