We are here to support you
There is a wide range of support available at Barton Peveril and students are encouraged to seek help whenever necessary. The student support at Barton Peveril received a grade 1 (Outstanding) at the last Ofsted inspection.
All students participate in a high quality tutorial programme which caters for students needs and includes many different topics including settling into College, health and welfare, finance, and preparation for university or employment. Students are also given extensive support with applying to university and writing personal statements.
The tutor system also keeps students informed about events and opportunities at College or in the wider community, and tutors carry out regular reviews to ensure that students are achieving their potential.
Personal Tutors
You will be allocated a Personal Tutor once your subject choices and timetable have been finalised in September. As far as possible, you will be assigned to a Tutor who will also teach you so he or she will get to know your academic needs well. He or she will agree targets with you regularly, advise you regarding your career and personal development and keep you informed about College events and procedures. Your meetings with your tutor will be a mixture of one-to-one meetings and as a tutor group of about 20 students.
Heads of Faculty and Student Progress Managers
The College is divided into four faculties (Art subjects, Science, Humanities and Business). Each faculty is led by a Head of Faculty assisted by a Student Progress Manager. In addition to ensuring quality of teaching, they are responsible for the Personal Tutors and their students who work in that faculty. The Student Progress Manager has overall responsibility for your welfare and progress while you are at College and can refer you to specialist educational and welfare services when required.
They are always pleased to answer queries from parents and will contact parents whenever they consider it necessary.
Gifted & Talented Tutorial Programme
Barton Peveril is committed to providing a tutorial programme with activities that suit the needs of each and every student that enrols with us. In doing so we recognise that our most able students need a programme that meets their specific needs and in many cases builds on the extension work that they have been involved in whilst at school.
The sessions within the programme are designed to give students the opportunity to explore knowledge beyond the curriculum and give them the confidence and skills to apply to the top Universities.
Disability Equality Scheme.
The Disability Discrimination Act 2005 introduced a new duty to promote disability equality and requires organisations to become proactive agents of change.
You will find details of the scheme here
Student Health and Wellbeing
We believe strongly in our responsibilities to promote student wellbeing, happiness and good health so have employed a qualified nurse as our Health and Wellbeing Advisor to run specialist services for students. Our healthy College ethos is strongly based on the national framework “Every Child Matters” which states that every child, whatever their background or circumstances, should have the support they need to: be healthy, stay safe, enjoy and achieve, make a positive contribution and achieve economic wellbeing.
We arrange regular health promotion events during the year and have close links with outside agencies who offer support to our students. The service we offer includes help with a range of health related issues including smoking, diet and fitness or advice on relationships and emotional wellbeing.
The wellbeing team consists of our Health and Wellbeing Advisor, two British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) accredited Counsellors, two Youth Workers and Connexions Advisers.
Learning Support
An initial diagnostic test is undertaken by all full-time students to access study skills. This is designed to identify any shortfall so that we can help all students prepare for advanced level study and achieve the best possible grades in their chosen course. If a shortfall is detected, students are put on a carefully designed programme, usually timetabled for one lesson per week, to help them improve on their specific area for development.
Applications from students with learning differences such as dyslexia are welcome, as are students with any type of mobility, visual or hearing impairment or mental health issues. Students are at liberty to choose and will be supported on any subject that they have the academic qualifications to pursue.
Additional support is designed to suit the individual and can take the form of additional teaching one to one or in small groups, as well as a drop-in facility, in-class support, and/or provision of specialist equipment, as well as access arrangements for examinations. The College is physically very accessible with excellent facilities. We also have sign language interpreters for deaf students. Links are maintained with schools and outside agencies as well as students themselves and their parents/guardians to ensure that strategies that have been successful in the past are continued at College, and close liaison is maintained with course tutors.
For further details, please contact the College for a copy of the ‘Meeting Individual Needs’ brochure or please click here to view a PDF of the brochure.
Your progress towards career and university choices will be monitored and supported by staff at the college and forms a central part of the tutorial programme.
Careers Advice and Opportunities
You will have access to a wide range of careers information and guidance in College. Your progress towards careers and university choices will be monitored and supported by your Tutor and will be a central part of the tutorial programme.
The Careers Resource Centre is well stocked, containing a range of information on higher education, employment and training. The Careers Department organises a comprehensive number of events including an Arts Fair, Higher Education Fair when more than 60 universities come to Barton Peveril and the annual ‘Futures Day’ when students meet university admissions tutors from over 40 of the most popular degree subjects as well as meeting local employers and Gap year organisations.
In addition, careers and Higher Education talks are held on a variety of topics, for example, interviewing techniques and personal statement writing. There is also an extensive Oxbridge Support Programme conducted throughout the year for interested students.
The College is very well supported by independent Personal Advisors from Hampshire Connexions Service who provide specialist careers advice to all students on an individual basis.
Preparing Our Students For Study At The Top Universities
The College has a dedicated Oxbridge programme of enrichment and support that not only assists those applying to Oxford and Cambridge, but any student aiming for a place on a competitive course at a selective university.
Early on in their college careers students will be contacted on the basis of their GCSE grades to suggest they should be aiming high in their choice of course and university. A series of meetings follows to demystify the process, encourage attendance at open day events and invite guest speakers to contribute.
A specific programme is offered to those intending to apply to Oxford and Cambridge, including help with application and mock interviews. The College has an excellent record of success in this area, with one in three of applicants gaining a place (compared to the national average of one in five).
