About our Sixth Form

The Pinnacle of St George’s School: Sixth Form

Our Sixth Form provides a world of new opportunities, both intellectual and personal. It’s why so many students describe the final two years as their very best.

Within our Sixth Form you’ll receive outstanding teaching, achieve exceptional Higher and Advanced Higher results, and quickly feel at home in a place that buzzes with energy and fun.

The best view in school is enjoyed from the Sixth Form hub. Our serene and sophisticated common room and study areas look across the Edinburgh skyline to the iconic Edinburgh Castle. Within this supportive haven, our Sixth Form and Careers team offers sage advice and good humour (as well as the occasional chocolate biscuit) to help you successfully navigate Sixth Form life.

We’re particularly proud that regularly over 95% of our leavers reach their first-choice destination each year, thanks to the sense of ambition, strong role models, and personalised approach to education that characterise St George’s.

Sixth Form: Paving Future Opportunity

We’ll support you in designing a curriculum pathway that builds on your strengths and passions and opens doors for the future. And don’t miss a myriad of opportunities to connect with the world beyond St George’s: international exchanges with schools and colleges; joint activities with Merchiston Castle school; sporting, musical or subject-based competitions; public speaking events like St George's TEDxYouth or Model United Nations; and exciting work experience placements.

Student Voice

Our Sixth Formers have a strong voice and care deeply about their school, playing a key role as leaders and change-makers in the school: from prefects to student council reps, House Captains, student-led society chairs or the Student Leadership Team.

This all helps to create a unique spirit of pride within our loyal, longstanding school community.

Subject Choice and Range

We pride ourselves on our breadth and flexibility of academic course s which enable you to pursue the widest choice of university courses or careers: Marine Biology, Medicine, Mathematics, Modern Languages, Music, Aeronautical Engineering, English, Anthropology, Art, International Relations, Business Management, Chemical Engineering, Classics, Physics with Astrophysics, Foundation courses in Art and Textiles… These are just some of the diverse range of courses that our girls have gone on to study at universities across the UK and the world. You may choose to follow in their footsteps or tread a different path.

"Nurturing and supportive. I can’t thank St George’s enough for sculpting the ﬁrst 18 years of my life and helping me develop the skills I need to become an independent woman."

Sixth Form student

Welcome

“I enjoy working alongside young people as they develop an exciting vision of themselves and what their place in the world might be and helping to support them in preparing for this.

Our education at St George’s, and in the Sixth Form in particular, is bespoke and individual! Over the next two years, you will be supported by a variety of staff to ensure that you choose the most appropriate pathway. Our dedicated Sixth Form team will explore your aspirations with you and help you with your decisions and plans. They will help you to understand and develop your strengths, areas of interest and skills. It is great to work alongside a wonderfully talented body of teachers who go the extra mile to offer opportunities that enable our students to thrive in their chosen pathways.

Working alongside the Heads of School and prefect teams each year has been a real highlight for me. From coaching them through the university application process to supporting them as they develop their projects within the school community, I am always so proud of how they rise to the challenge and make a difference in our school."

Jo Mushat

Head of Sixth Form

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Welcome

“I enjoy working alongside young people as they develop an exciting vision of themselves and what their place in the world might be and helping to support them in preparing for this.

Jo Mushat

Head of Sixth Form

More about Jo

Why Sixth Form at St George’s?

Academic flexibility, bespoke pathways, competitive university programme, academic enrichment, individual attention.

Find out more about our academic curriculum

Charity work, volunteering, student leadership, boarding community and sixth form community, debating, presentation skills, CCF and Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards.

Find out more about our co-curriculum

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Student mentoring, teamwork, life skills, work skills, sport and enrichment within the curriculum, skills for life, individual wellbeing, flexi, weekly/full boarding

Find out more about our academic enrichment

Activities and clubs, expeditions and tours, International Student Exchange

Find out more about our co-curriculum

Find out more about our international student exchanges

Bespoke careers, university and college support, lecture programme, work experience . Regularly over 95% of our students each year leave St George's to attend their first-choice university places.

The Sixth Form and Careers Team pride themselves on the quality of advice and time taken with each individual student to ensure that students apply for courses in institutions that are right for them, ensuring positive destinations at the end of the students' school careers, whether this be university, college, degree apprenticeship or in the workplace.

Students use the Unifrog website to research and explore courses and universities and apprenticeships of interest as well as using it as a tool to write Personal Statements and CVs ready for application. The Careers Department prepares students for interviews that may be face-to-face, online or in a group, as well as preparing students for skills assessments if applying for degree apprenticeships.

The Team is all about getting it right for each individual student and their next steps after school.

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The Sixth Form common rooms are on the upper school's top floor with views of Edinburgh Castle.

Housed around the Upper School library to give easy access to the library and the computer area, the girls have flexible open-plan workspaces, private study areas and individual workstations.

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Sixth Form leaflet

"St George's has transformed my daughter. She had been adrift and unhappy in a large co-ed school that had very little expectation of its pupils. With the focus and support of the caring but demanding staff at St George's, she is flourishing socially and academically, and developing her interests in STEM subjects. She comes home every evening full of news and very cheerful."

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