Birkenhead Sixth Form College

The Sixth Form College, Birkenhead
College logo since 2013
Type	Sixth form college
Established	1988
Principal	Kathryn Podmore
Location	Park Road West, Claughton Village, Birkenhead, CH43 8SQ England
Website	http://www.bsfc.ac.uk

The Sixth Form College, Birkenhead is a Centre of Academic Excellence for sixth form studies and is the number one sixth form choice for young people in Wirral. It is Wirral’s specialist Sixth Form College and is one of just 94 specialist sixth form colleges across England. It is also the only sixth form college in Wirral with teachers that are specialists in A-Level provision.

The college specialises in A Level, BTEC, CACHE and GCSE education for 16- to 19-year-olds across Wirral.^[1]^[2] The college offers the widest range of A Level programmes in the Wirral area which can be studied in any combination.

Location

The Sixth Form College is located in Claughton Village next to Birkenhead Park approximately one mile from the centre of Birkenhead. Birkenhead is in Wirral within the county of Merseyside. The college is easily reached by road and rail, Birkenhead Park railway station is situated nearby and a variety of local bus routes serve the area.

Facilities

The Sixth Form College underwent a £3.5 million refurbishment which was completed in 2014. ^[3]^[4] This saw the addition of:

New School of Art and Design
New Humanities building
New Science Laboratories
New Learning Support area
8SQ Student Common Room area
New Reception and frontage

The refurbishment was led by former student of The Sixth Form College, Rachel Clegg who is now a practising Architect.

Celebrating 25 Years

In 2013, The Sixth Form College, Birkenhead celebrated its 25th year as Wirral’s specialist Sixth Form College.^[5]^[6] The college was first founded in 1988.

References

↑ http://www.bsfc.ac.uk
↑ Sixth Form College, Birkenhead. "BSFC".
↑ http://www.sixthformcolleges.org/college/birkenhead-sixth-form-college#zoom=15&lat=56.97802&lon=-0.96012&layers=BTT
↑ "The Sixth form College Association". Governing body of Sixth Form Colleges.
↑ http://www.bsfc.ac.uk/news/latest/2012-09-17-25th-anniversary-gala-celebration
↑ "Gala Celebration for 25th Year".

External links

Birkenhead Sixth Form College homepage

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University colleges	Royal Northern College of Music

Further Education colleges	Accrington & Rossendale Blackburn Blackpool & The Fylde Bolton Burnley Bury Carlisle Furness Hopwood Hall Hugh Baird Kendal Knowsley Lakes Lancaster & Morecambe Liverpool Macclesfield Manchester Mid Cheshire Myerscough Nelson & Colne Oldham Preston's Reaseheath Riverside Runshaw St Helens Salford South Cheshire Southport Stockport Tameside Trafford Warrington West Cheshire West Lancashire Wigan & Leigh Wirral Metropolitan

Sixth form colleges	Aquinas Ashton Barrow-in-Furness Birkenhead Blackpool Bolton Bolton Wanderers Cardinal Newman Carmel Cheadle & Marple Connell Holy Cross Hyde Clarendon King George V Loreto Oldham Priestley Rainford Rochdale Sir John Deane's St John Rigby St Mary's South Sefton Thomas Whitham Winstanley Xaverian

Schools in Wirral

Primary schools	Birkenhead High School Academy New Brighton Primary School

Non-selective secondary schools	Bebington High Sports College Birkenhead High School Academy Birkenhead Park School Hilbre High School The Kingsway Academy The Mosslands School The Oldershaw Academy Pensby High School for Boys Pensby High School for Girls Prenton High School for Girls Ridgeway High School St John Plessington Catholic College St Mary's College South Wirral High School Weatherhead High School Woodchurch High School

Grammar schools	Calday Grange Grammar School St Anselm's College Upton Hall School FCJ West Kirby Grammar School Wirral Grammar School for Boys Wirral Grammar School for Girls

Independent schools	Birkenhead School Kingsmead School Redcourt St Anselm's

FE & sixth form colleges	Birkenhead Sixth Form College Wirral Metropolitan College

Closed schools	Rock Ferry High School Wellington School

Coordinates: 53°23′42″N 3°03′17″W / 53.3949°N 3.0547°W / 53.3949; -3.0547

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