Solihull Sixth Form College

Enrichment Update #4: Cricket. This is a summer activity, which provides the opportunity for students to play within an organised College T20 league. This enrichment gives you the opportunity to develop yourself physically, socially and emotionally, as you develop your teamwork and communication skills along with the organisation needed to balance training, game preparation and academic work. Trials take place following enrolment if you wish to be selected.

Enrichment Update #3: Creative Writing. This enrichment offers a workshop-style approach to improving and exercising your creative writing talents in a supportive group environment. There will be opportunities to enter creative writing competitions, hear from visiting speakers and publish your work. If this interests you, make sure you sign up at enrolment.

Enrichment Update #2: Core Maths. This is a Level 3 qualification and it is designed to prepare students for the mathematical demands of study, work and life. There is a focus on applying the mathematics to real life contexts, such as tax and national insurance, percentages, critical analysis of graphs, correlation and data analysis. This content is aimed at building students’ confidence with mathematical ideas and applications in their professional and academic life. If you think this will boost your career progression, sign up at enrolment.

A level Photography students Flora Astbury, Orla McGarry and Tess Dennis had their work selected to be part of the SFCA online exhibition this year. Congratulations! Check out their artwork at www.sixthformcolleges.org/2174/sfca-art-exhibition-2026-artistes-sans-frontieres.

Enrichment Update #1: Basketball. The Basketball Academy is a high-performance squad playing in National Level competition. The Academy team is coached by experienced staff from the City of Birmingham Rockets, who provide opportunities for students to train and play within their U18 structure outside of college. Fixtures are played in the College Basketball League and take place on Wednesday afternoons. Trials take place following enrolment and attendance is compulsory for those students wishing to be selected.

Year 12 Chemistry students have been completing the first of their preparation of organic molecules practical. In this lesson, students produced impure Aspirin and then change it's physical state using temperature to filter out soluble and insoluble impurities. They will go on and check impurities using the product melting point.

Through June and July, we’ll be highlighting the exciting enrichment activities that students can sign up to when they enrol. From academic options that can boost your Higher Education chances to societies and clubs to help you settle in at college and make friends, we have a great range of extra-curricular activities to make your time at college truly memorable. Students who attend Welcome to College Day on 2 July will get a guide to help them choose their enrichment.

Pre-Medical School enrichment students visited Keele University last week for a day aimed at preparing them for further study of Medicine. They reviewed a problem-based learning activity they had completed in which they diagnosed a fictitious patient and attended a lecture on active listening and interaction with patients. They also completed an anatomy practical and undertook a session on Microbiology and choosing the most appropriate antibiotics. Huge thanks to Dr Andrew Morris, Dr Gordon Dent and Dr Rebecca MacKenzie for their time. Our relationship with Keele, which has been going since 2014, keeps going from strength to strength!

Our Stretch and Challenge Summer School 2026 takes place on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 June, when learners will have the opportunity to attend sessions that will stretch them beyond the A level, BTEC or T level curriculum. Students in the Stretch and Challenge cohort have until Wednesday 10 June to sign up for these sessions (further details sent to those students by email).

Tomorrow is D-Day and we have displays in College raising awareness of the day in 1944 when Allied forces launched the largest amphibious invasion in history on the coast of Normandy in France, to liberate Western Europe from N**i Germany.