1. Richard Billings Principal of The Towers School

2. Finland Broad curriculum Local Comprehensive (No selection)
No formal Examinations in Year 11
No Private education
Unions?
Central commissioning of Places post 16
Academic and Vocational (Highly selective)
Employer engagement to the highest level
Specialist 6th Form centres

3. Lessons learned from Finland
Restructuring of Towers 6th Form
New curriculum structure
IBCP
New timings for the day
Expectations of Students- All day every day
Focus Study and resit time
Progression manager employed
New head of 6th Form
No common Room
Full use of 25 hours
No wasted time

4. Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
8:45 -9:00
Tutor Time
09:00-10:00 D
Enrichment Day
Resit/ Supervised Study Day
10:00-11:00 B
11:00-12:00 C
12:30-13:30
13:30-14:30 Ac
14:30-15:30
15:30-16:30

5. Inclusion No Permanent Exclusions No Fixed Term Exclusions BUT…..
Inclusion comes at a cost…
Progress 8 statistically incorrect (Outliers)
Students off roll
Ofsted are now listening?

6. Jordan Savegar Age 17 Towers School 6th Form Student