Admission to Sixth Form
Sixth Form Enrolments
Enrolment Day for External Students 2025
The GMS external enrolment day is on Friday August 22nd from 9am, the day after the GCSE results are published. We are unable to enrol any external students on Thursday 21st August.
How to enrol:
If you attain the required entry grades for the courses at GMS and you wish to join GMS Sixth Form, please attend the enrolment day in the summer. When arriving at the main gates on the morning of Friday August 22nd, there will be signage to direct you to the relevant location.
No appointment is required, but depending on the number of applicants on the day, please be prepared to wait.
Please refer to our 6th Form Prospectus to ensure that you have all the relevant information about entry requirements. For a quick enrolment, it is essential that all grade entry criteria is met.
Please bring a paper copy of your exam results and a form of photo ID. We will not be able to enrol you fully if you do not provide this documentation. You will also be required to complete admissions forms to finalise enrolment.
GMS’s Year 11 students have enrolment priority on courses, in previous years capacity has been an issue for the more popular subjects such as Law, Psychology and Business Studies. It is important, therefore, to re-iterate that attainment of the required grades, for each course, will give you a far better chance of being enrolled onto the courses that you want.
However, should you very narrowly miss the grade requirement for a subjec, we ask that you bring evidence from your school or exam board of how close you were to the next grade boundary. Whilst we are still unable to guarantee a place on any course, it will help ensure our discussions and potential decisions are accurate.
Year 12 Option Blocks 2025
Please note, candidates may only select one subject from three different vertical columns.
Candidates may combine BTEC subjects with A-level subjects, but the T-level Childcare course is a standalone course and may not be combined with other subjects.
Please note that whilst Further Maths is situated in column C, there is some flexibility with how this may be timetabled as a fourth subject.
Option Blocks 2025-26
| A | B | C | D | E | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business | Maths | Business | Art | Drama | ||||
| Chemistry | BTEC Creative Media | History | Biology | Ancient History | ||||
| Fashion & Textiles | English Literature | Physics | Geography | Product Design | ||||
| Law | Geography | Psychology | Law | BTEC Sport | ||||
| Media Studies | Politics | BTEC Travel & Tourism | Media Studies | Psychology | ||||
| Music | English Lit/Lang | Spanish | Statistics | |||||
| PE | Further Maths | BTEC UPS | French | |||||
| T-level Qualification – Childcare and Education | ||||||||
Sixth Form Admissions Criteria
Students will need to attain a GCSE Grade 4 in English Language and Mathematics and meet the entry criteria for each of the subject areas in A-level, BTEC and T-level.
Sixth Form Options Evening and Application Procedure for 2026
For details regarding the application process, and application timetable, please contact the school. A Sixth Form Options’ Evening is held each year in the late autumn or early spring term.
Application forms for external candidates can be accessed using the link at the top of this page in the autumn term.
Where a Sixth Form applicant has been refused a place at the school, parents and carers will be advised of their right of appeal against the decision of the Governing Body to an Independent Appeals Panel.
The right of appeal will apply equally to students currently attending the school and seeking entry to the Sixth Form and to external applicants. A waiting list for the Sixth Form will be maintained, in line with the school’s over-subscription criteria, until the end of September. Students are not admitted to Sixth Form courses after that date.
Equal Opportunities, Disability Discrimination, Race Relations
In dealing with applications for admissions governors will have full regard to the Sex Discrimination Act 1975; Race Relations Act 1976 and 2000; Human Rights Act 1998; Disability Discrimination Acts 1995 and 2005; and Equality Act 2010.
School Transport
For students who are 16, 17 or 18 years of age before 1 September in any academic year the council operates a travel scheme (The 16+ Scheme). Further details of the scheme are available from the Passenger Transport Section at Buckinghamshire County Council.
Named Contact
All initial enquiries regarding admission to the Sixth Form should be made to Mr O Hollyman, Head of Sixth Form at Great Marlow School – Tel No: 01628 483752.