SENIOR SCHOOL &
SIXTH FORM
Creating young people who are well equipped for university life and adulthood.
Senior School
Inspiring Excellence
Rockport Senior School offers day and boarding pupils from 11-16 a chance to study a wide-ranging curriculum in small class sizes, enhancing the learning experience. In addition to traditional core subjects like English, Maths, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics, we also teach subjects including Politics, Digital Technology, Performing Arts, LFLW, Spanish and French.
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Sport is an important element of the Rockport school experience, and as such, pupils are offered the unique opportunity to participate in Games everyday, and all have access to our Golf Academy. Our pupils also have access to an extensive programme of sports, music, drama and Duke of Edinburgh Awards.
Sixth Form
Stand out from the crowd
The Sixth Form experience at Rockport is about exploring a new intellectual landscape and offers pupils two years of rich stimulus in the classroom, a wealth of experience and opportunity outside it, and an ideal preparation for life after school. The range of academic disciplines is broad and the curriculum is designed so that every pupil will be able to follow their own interests and to move onto whichever chosen path of Higher Education they wish to follow.
Over 17 different A Level subject options​
International travel and exchange opportunities​
Enrichment opportunities to enhance career prospects
All schools have Sixth Forms but there is no doubt in my mind that Rockport’s is something special, something unique.
Excerpt from Head Girls' Speeches on Speech Day, 2023
Through my eventful 10 years at Rockport, I am so thankful for the efforts of my teachers, helping me with not just learning the required content but growing my curiosity and passion for my subjects as well as always understanding the students. The teachers always turn learning from a chore into an activity, even during lockdown when everything was changing and normalcy wasn't possible for most. Thanks to their hard work and continuous support, our lives remained structured and we had the ability to socialise every day when other schools were limited to purely worksheets. I want to take this opportunity to thank all of the teachers for giving us a friendly face willing to provide support through the days of COVID when the weight on our backs began to drag us down. I am glad that Rockport has prepared me with a new set of tools to face challenges head on with as I leave to begin my next chapter. I will now hand over to Emma, who would also like to say a few words. Tabitha Allen, Head Girl.
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When you approach teachers here, they will never turn you away, whether you are asking them for help with a topic you struggle with or just telling them about your weekend of watching grey's anatomy and eating salted pretzels. I would like to thank Mrs Walker, Mrs Hobson, and Miss Bridges in particular for always being a shoulder to cry on, metaphorically and literally, but that was just one time. No matter how trivial an issue, such as a year 10 breakup, they have always made me feel seen and heard and it is because of them that I intend to continue English as a hobby alongside my degree next year. I would like to thank our lovely sixth form supervisors, Mrs Gordon and Mrs Vance, for actively taking interest in our lives as well as our studies. I think Mrs Gordon was more excited than me when I finally passed my driving test after a year of my horror stories from in the car. Mrs Vance always brought in our 'Friday treats' every week at break, and I must admit that it was always my hand in the bowl first. When I speak to my friends at other schools, their teachers don't even know their last names. Now, I can't imagine being at a school where you're just a name on a sheet because the teachers here know you personally, just because they care. I would also like to thank Mr Corcos, who taught me that whilst my grades are important they don't define me or dictate what the future holds for me.
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I would never have been able to achieve what I have without Rockport academically, but I would also never have been able to experience what I have either, from Round Square trips and Sports Tours to eating home-made cakes on Wednesdays in English. Without a doubt, going to Rockport shaped me into who I am today and I owe my achievements to Rockport and also to my parents, who never doubted me and always ensured I put my all into everything I did. They taught me the value of hard work, determination, and never giving up on what you want to achieve. To finish, I would like to reiterate a phrase of Mr Vance's that I have felt to the fullest recently. You may leave Rockport, but Rockport will never leave you. Emma Yeaman, Head Girl.