Vision and Ethos
From day one, students at The UCL Academy Sixth Form experience an inspirational world class education built on a culture of academic excellence, social responsibility and a transformational curriculum, developed in partnership with our sponsor, University College London. Here you can find out more about the ethos that drives teaching and learning at The UCL Academy.
Our students leave The Academy with the tools, experiences, values, knowledge, and skills to reach their potential and participate as global citizens in the 21st century.
Our staff are committed to exploring, testing, and reviewing the most effective teaching and learning to ensure that our pedagogy is as impactful, innovative, and transformational as possible, and that our curriculum offers breadth, depth, and balance for all our learners to go out into the work and make a difference.
Our community is inclusive, supportive, open-minded, and engaged, making the most of support from our sponsor, parent and local community associations, and global and national school partners and networks.
The Vision and Ethos of our Sixth Form is embedded in your experience from the moment you apply. Our rich programme of transition studies, partnerships with exceptional organisations beyond the Academy, master-classes, seminars and summer schools are all part of our commitment to provide Encounters with Excellence. This is best exemplified by our day-to-day relationship with our sponsor, UCL, one of the world’s leading Universities, where we can use its library, laboratories, teaching facilities, and staff. UCL students provide mentoring to support the academic and personal journey and these experiences build on and extend learning beyond the classroom and support the transition from Sixth Form to University teaching.
We are committed to the development of the whole person; our students not only leave with exceptional academic results but also with the attributes we consider essential to being global citizens. We monitor these as part of our assessment of student progress and attainment and our rigorous tutoring programme and mentoring support ensures this is an enriching experience. The two years in our Sixth Form are pivotal in our students’ lives; our ambition is that all students leave with the cultural capital to benefit them throughout their lives. They will have life-enhancing experiences that facilitate social change. We provide our students with opportunities they can refer to in the future, enabling them to stand out and develop as cultured, well-qualified, internationally minded, proactive, autonomous, and ethical citizens, ready to make a positive difference in the world.
