Applications for 2025 entry
Applications for 2025 entry
The deadline for applications for 2025 entry has now passed. For more information or if you have any questions, please contact our admissions team at [email protected] or 01743 280552.
Sixth Form (Year 12)
Shrewsbury’s Sixth Form offers girls and boys two years of rich intellectual stimulus in the classroom, a wealth of experience and opportunity outside it, and an ideal preparation for life beyond.
Within this new intellectual landscape, the range of academic disciplines is broad, the teaching of a very high standard, and the results excellent. The facilities for teaching, sports, music, arts and performing arts are first class.
Shrewsbury is a school of great breadth but of high achievement; our Oxbridge entry record, averaging around 15 places a year, our concert and dramatic performances in London and Edinburgh, and the results of our sporting teams at national and international levels endorse that.
We are looking for boys and girls who may already have strong and marked interests and abilities, but who also want to explore the breadth and variety of Sixth Form life at Shrewsbury and make a fine contribution to school life before proceeding to university and their chosen career.
Applications for 2026 and beyond
Applications for 2026 and beyond
Open Days
In the first instance, families are encouraged to attend one of our Sixth Form Open Days. These include talks about the admissions process (including the Sixth Form Assessment Weekend) and a tour of the site and a boarding or day house. There are also opportunities to speak to the Headmaster, Housemasters/Housemistresses, current pupils and representatives from each of our academic Faculties. Places can be booked online via our Open Days and Booking Form page.
Individual Family Visits
If you would like to arrange an individual family visit, please email the Admissions Office at [email protected]. This will usually include a tour of the School, a meeting with the Sixth Form Admissions Tutor and a visit to one of our houses. If you would like to see the Headmaster during your visit, please do let us know.
Registration
Following your visit, and if you have not already done so, you will be invited to register your son or daughter by filling in a Registration Form and returning it to us with the Registration Fee of £150.
Sixth Form Assessments
We will write to you in the August 13 months ahead of entry to confirm that your child intends to take our entrance exams and to enclose our application form.
On the application form, candidates will nominate three subjects for assessment. Ideally, these should be the subjects that they intend to take for A Level. However, we recognise that some applicants will not yet have firm plans for their A Levels and we suggest that they offer three of their strongest GCSE subjects. [Candidates for whom English is not their first language will additionally be required to offer English as an Additional Language as a fourth paper.]
Exam papers will be set in accordance with GCSE specifications, albeit in the knowledge that candidates will not yet have finished their GCSE courses. Papers will be one hour in length. Our Specimen Papers section contains past papers.
Candidates will also undertake an interview with a senior member of staff. This will be informed by the Personal Statement that is part of the Application Form and in which candidates can tell us more about their interests and achievements. We will also ask for permission to write to the applicant’s current headteacher for a reference.
The Entrance Examinations will be held at the beginning of November the year before entry. International candidates will be able to take the written papers either at an Examination Centre in their home country or at the offices of Academic Asia and UK Boarding Schools. We would anticipate that international candidates will take the exams at the beginning of November.
We will be offering approximately 8 academic scholarships and 12 other specialist scholarships that include Art, Drama, Music and Sport. Academic scholarships will be awarded as a result of exceptional performance in the entrance examination. The other specialist scholarships will be assessed at the same time as the November entrance examinations, through practical assessment and interview.
The key parts of the Application Pack are the Registration Form (for candidates who have not yet registered as prospective students at Shrewsbury), Academic Application form and the Personal Statement. Also included are our Specialist Scholarship forms.
In addition, we offer two sporting scholarships: The Margaret Cassidy Sports Scholarship is for an outstanding sportsman (worth up to 100% of fees, subject to means testing); and the Alex Wilson Scholarship is awarded every year to a local sportsperson of exceptional talent (worth up to 100% of day fees, subject to means testing).
Offers of a Place
We will aim to have made our decisions by 1st December, and will then offer successful candidates a place in our Sixth Form, conditional on them achieving at least three GCSEs at Grade 7 and three GCSEs at Grade 5 (or three A and three B grades).
You will be sent an offer letter including an Acceptance of a Conditional Place form which needs to be completed and returned with the relevant deposit. For families living in the UK, the deposit is 10% of a term’s fee; for families whose normal residence is outside the UK, there is an additional deposit which is 90% of the current fee for one term.
Applications from mainland China
All applicants from mainland China should contact our official representative: UK Boarding Schools Admissions Service
Tel: +86 (0)21 31651368
Address: Floor 3, BLDG 5, No.258, West Fuxing Road, Shanghai, 200031, China
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.ukboardingschools.org.uk
WeChat: 英国私校入学中心UKBS
所有中国大陆的申请者请联系我们官方代表: UK Boarding Schools Admissions Service
电话：+86 (0)21 31651368（上海办公室）
地址：上海市复兴西路258号5号楼三层，邮编200031
网址： www.ukboardingschools.org.uk
微信：英国私校入学中心UKBS
Specimen Papers - Sixth Form
Specimen Papers - Sixth Form
Notes on Academic Assessment
These notes give a full list of approved subjects for testing in our Sixth Form Academic Assessment, and should be downloaded and read in conjunction with any of our specimen papers:
Sixth Form Entrance Notes on Academic Assessment (2025 Entry)
Specimen Papers
Our specimen papers for the Sixth Form Academic Assessment are the examinations that were taken by candidates who joined us in September 2023.
Key Dates
Key Dates
| July | Application forms are sent out to all parents of pupils registered to join our co-educational Sixth Form the following September. |
| October | Application forms to be returned to us, generally by the beginning of October. |
| November | The first Friday and Saturday of the month - Entrance Examinations take place. |
| December | December 1st - Applicants will be informed whether or not they have received an offer of a place. This is normally conditional on them achieving at least three GCSEs at Grade 7 and three GCSEs at Grade 5 (or three A and three B grades). We also ask for a Guarantee Deposit to confirm the place in our Sixth Form for that September. |
Should there be any places that remain unfilled following the entrance examinations in November, late applicants will follow a similar assessment procedure and places will be offered on a 'first come, first served' basis. Please contact our Admissions Office to discuss alternative arrangements as soon as possible.
A Level Options Fair
A Level Options Fair
The A Level Options Fair is held on a Saturday morning each January - generally the last Saturday in the month - and is an opportunity for all pupils due to start in the Sixth Form (Year 12) the following September to learn a bit more about their chosen Sixth Form subjects. All Fifth Formers and all new entrants into the Sixth Form are invited to attend, with their parents.
Click here to read our Sixth Form and Beyond document in full or use the flipbook below.
If you require further information, please do not hesitate to contact our Sixth Form Tutor, Mr Matthew Clark, by e-mail [email protected].
