Admissions: 6th Form

6th Form criteria    

Students need to be:

• Have an EHCP.

• Be motivated, keen to learn and willing to take direction.

• Be able to manage their own behaviour the vast majority of the time, and be accessing the vast majority of their lessons.

• Be ready to learn work skills rather than needing to further develop their basic life skills.

• Be working within or above Entry Level 1 and below level 2 in English and maths.

• Want to become an independent adult who is keen to embrace opportunities in the wider community and world of work.

• Be able to access public transport independently, be working towards independent travel, or have a desire to be able to travel independently in the future.

• Have what is considered to be good attendance by the school/college SENCO (given the students individual needs), for the last full academic year.

Admissions procedure

Students need to apply for a place in the Sixth Form. If an application is not completed an offer of a 6th Form place will not be made.

We have 26 places a year available in our 6th Form at Castle Hill for year 12 and 10 places available on our post 18 Pre-Internship course.

6th Form Open Evenings are held every September for Year 11 students and their parents/carers. There is also an Open Event in February for year 10 students, parents and carers. Information will be published on the website, and letters and texts sent home to parents/carers of CHHS students, inviting them to the event.

Applicants wishing to visit and discuss the post 18 Pre-Internship course should attend the post 18 Information Event at CHHS in the September/October of Year 13   and/or email Julie Jones directly or call school to make an appointment to discuss/and/or visit the provision.  julie.jones@castlehill.stockport.sch.uk

Our 6th Form Application forms can be downloaded below and are also available from the school office or by emailing Julie Jones directly.

An early application is encouraged as places are limited. Applications will be kept on file and used by school to generate placement offers.

Students need to meet our 6th Form criteria in order to be offered a place.

Offers are sent to parents in the October of Year 11 for year 12 entry and throughout the year, on a first come first served basis, for our Pre-Internship provision.

Students not offered a place will be put on our waiting list and parents/carers informed should a place become available.

As places are limited we advise parents/carers to attend our post 16/post 18 information events held in September/October at school, and research and consider other provisions as well as ours.  

Application Form for September 2025 intake

Application Form for September 2026 intake

6th Form Open Event

Stockport Council 16-19 Bursary Fund

The 16-19 Bursary Fund is intended to help the most vulnerable 16-19 year olds in full-time education.

The fund is made up of two parts:

A vulnerable bursary of up to £1,200 a year to the most vulnerable 16-19 year olds if at least one of the following applies to the young person:

• They are in or recently left local authority care.
• They get Income Support or Universal Credit in their own right (not the parents/carers/guardians).
• Receiving Disability Living Allowance or Personal Independence Payments in their own right (not the parents/carers/guardians) as well as Employment and Support Allowance or Universal Credit in their own right (not the parents/carers/guardians).

Discretionary bursaries to support young people facing financial barriers to education to contribute to the costs of transport, meals, books and equipment.

More details and application form can be found below:

Bursary letter

Bursary application form