Q & A - FAQs

Which Centres are part of the Stevenage 14-19 Partnership?

All six 11-19 community schools, plus The Valley, Lonsdale School, the ESC and North Hertfordshire College: each institution is known as a Centre.

The following Centres are working together at Post 16: Barclay, Barnwell, Heathcote, Lonsdale, Marriotts, Nobel, North Hertfordshire College and Thomas Alleyne.

Terminology

Home Centre – this is the Centre where a student is officially enrolled. For example, if you stay on at Post 16 in the school where you take your GCSEs in Year 11 that school is your Home Centre. If you leave the school at 16 and enrol at North Hertfordshire College then the College becomes your Home Centre.

Teaching Centre – this is the Centre where a course you study is taught. Often this will be in your Home Centre: however, if you travel to another Centre to take a course you are moving to a different Teaching Centre.

Guest students – guest students are those students taking a course at a Teaching Centre that is not their Home Centre. If you travel to another Centre to take a course you are a guest student in that Teaching Centre.

How does the Partnership work?

The Post 16 courses are organised across five columns. Each column occupies up to 5 hours each week, and around 9 – 10 hours a fortnight. An AS, for example, will fit into one column; a 6 unit Applied AS fits into two; and a Diploma fits into two. All the columns are timetabled at the same time in each Centre: each one occupies a single day. This means that students can take a course at another Centre without missing time from a course in their own Centre.