Blanchelande is to suspend its sixth form

Thursday 17th February 2011, 2:29PM GMT.

Blanchelande Vice-principal Patrick Harland BLANCHELANDE COLLEGE will not be taking its current Year 10 and Year 11 students through their A-levels. It says there will not be enough students to make that viable.

The increase in students leaving the college for the Grammar School Sixth Form Centre is one of the reasons why the college has made the decision.

It says that because the numbers of pupils in the two years were smaller compared to other years, there would only be around six students who would stay on to do their A-levels.

Vice-principal Patrick Harland (pictured) said in recent years around 75% of students had left to do their final exams elsewhere.

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Dave

February 17, 2011 at 6:24 pm

This is down to a serious lack of facilities for sixth form, no other reason, fees far too high to justify doing sixth form with limited resources, we took our daughter out last year.

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Is it?

February 18, 2011 at 9:51 am

“This is down to a serious lack of facilities for sixth form”

You think? More like seriously too many schools and facilities for an Island of 60000. Something like 30+ facilities education look after, including Herm. That’s insane.

And anyway why does Guernsey pay for a private pile’s education facilities?

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Wil

February 18, 2011 at 12:53 pm

Make it co-ed.

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Buttonz

February 21, 2011 at 10:29 am

Says a lot about the school. I went to Blanchelande when I was young my parents paid a lot of money to put me there after a few years they pulled me out due to lack of resources and teaching skills. For example we had one acorn computer in the corner of the room that was rubbish we used once or twice in a year. I then went to public school and they had a computer room we used every week with good quality computers. Why pay more to get less?

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Paul Le Page

February 21, 2011 at 2:24 pm

Buttonz – it would help if we knew when you attended the school?

The only reason I ask is that Acorn computers went out with the Ark so either (a) your experience of Blanchelande is probably not too recent in which case it’s not valid or (b) by still using Acorn computers they really are living in the Dark Ages!

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buttercup

February 22, 2011 at 9:22 am

i am not surprised by this announcement – class sizes throughout the school are far too small – the reception year consists of 5 girls!

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