Bustling Information Evening

On Thursday 7 February, The Sixth Form College, Solihull held its final recruitment event of this academic year, when Information Evening took place. My sore feet today indicate only one thing – that the event was a success!

Thanks to everyone who visited us. We had visitors from 67 different schools! We hope you got all the information you wanted and had all your questions answered. We had staff from all subject areas working, as well as quite a few current students, all there to talk about what studying their subjects is really like.

Rather than open up the whole campus – which we do for our Open Day in October – this event was concentrated in our Sports Centre. In effect, it had a careers fair “feel” to the event – giving prospective students and parents the chance to see all that we offer in one place. Our Sports Hall was packed with 33 stands for different subjects and College services. With the Principal Paul Ashdown also giving talks to packed audiences in our Dance Studio, there was no shortage of things to see and people to talk to.

Praise must go to our dedicated teachers and the students who worked at the event, talking with enthusiasm and knowledge about the subjects they study. Praise too must go to those that braved the cold and rain to attend this event! It really was a filthy night to be out, but visitors came in their hundreds.

It was gratifying to see the Information Evening bustling with so many visitors – so much hard work goes into setting it up, not least from our Site staff, who had more than 100 tables and 200 chairs to put out and then pack away after the event finished at 8.00pm.

The attendance at this event is yet another indication of the interest in The Sixth Form College, Solihull. Attendance at Open Day back in October was a record-breaker and we have had more applications this year than ever before. Those applications are still coming in – the deadline for applying is Friday 29 March 2013.

If you did not get a chance to visit us or you just have other questions that you forget to ask or which have occurred to you since, don’t forget there are plenty of ways to get in touch. Our Admissions Office is happy to take queries on 0121 709 7803. You can also post a question on our Admissions Facebook page at www.facebook.com/SFCSAdmissions or tweet us @sfcsapply.

We are currently working our way through all the applications we have received. We have already made many offers to students, but we have lots more applications to process. If students have not yet heard about a date for their interview, they should not worry – we will definitely be in touch. If you meet our entry requirements and complete your application before the end of March, we promise you will get an interview and places are not offered on a first come, first served basis. We have interview evenings taking place in February, March, April and May, so there is plenty of time for your application to be processed and offers made.

If you have applied, we look forward to welcoming you to the College for your interview. If you also get an offer, we will also invite you to attend a Summer Induction Day on either Thursday 27 or Friday 28 June, so look out for our communication to you about that later in the year.