The Clapham Sixth Form Centre
The new Sixth Form at our Clapham Centre, overlooking Clapham Common, is now fully open for business. With a massive £20 million investment the 6,000 square metre Sixth Form Centre was opened on 6 June 2009, to provide some of the best teaching accommodation in London, with provision for 1200 students.
The new building contains:
- 43 new teaching rooms, able to accommodate 1200 full time students
- Roof Garden overlooking the Common
- Learning Resource Centre
- Extensive IT facilities including around 100 PCs
- Spaces for seminar and group project work
- Quiet Zone for self-directed study
- Performing Arts Centre
- Theatre with 3 performance spaces (that can be adapted to one large theatre with a 160 seat capacity)
- Dance Studio
- Media and Arts Facilities
- Student Careers ‘knowledge hub’
- Chill-out Zone
- Break-out Areas
- Coffee Bar
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Take a look inside...Our fabulous new Sixth Form Centre is open for business!
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The brand new, £20 million, state-of-the-art Sixth Form Centre at Clapham.
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The brand new, £20 million, state-of-the-art Sixth Form Centre at Clapham.
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The brand new, £20 million, state-of-the-art Sixth Form Centre at Clapham.
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The brand new, £20 million, state-of-the-art Sixth Form Centre at Clapham.
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The brand new, £20 million, state-of-the-art Sixth Form Centre at Clapham.
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The brand new, £20 million, state-of-the-art Sixth Form Centre at Clapham.
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The brand new, £20 million, state-of-the-art Sixth Form Centre at Clapham.
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The brand new, £20 million, state-of-the-art Sixth Form Centre at Clapham.
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The brand new, £20 million, state-of-the-art Sixth Form Centre at Clapham.
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The brand new, £20 million, state-of-the-art Sixth Form Centre at Clapham.
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Each floor is colour-coded and rooms are easy to find.
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The Information Learning Technology (ILT) and Study Centre.
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The Information Learning Technology (ILT) and Study Centre.
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The Information Learning Technology (ILT) and Study Centre.
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The Information Learning Technology (ILT) and Study Centre.
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Extensive IT facilities in our classrooms.
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The new Atrium and Coffee Bar.
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The new Atrium and Coffee Bar.
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The new Atrium and Coffee Bar.
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Students on The Bridge.
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Students on The Bridge.
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The Dance Studio overlooking Clapham Common.
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The Dance Studio overlooking Clapham Common.
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The Dance Studio overlooking Clapham Common.
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The Dance Studio overlooking Clapham Common.
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The new Theatre and Performing Arts Centre.
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The new Theatre and Performing Arts Centre.
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The new Theatre and Performing Arts Centre.
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Modern classroom technology using interactive whiteboards and data projectors.
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Modern classroom technology using interactive whiteboards and data projectors.
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Inspiring Art, Design and Media facilities.
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Inspiring Art, Design and Media facilities.
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The Artists' Roof Garden overlooks beautiful Clapham Common.
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The Artists' Roof Garden overlooks beautiful Clapham Common.
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The Artists' Roof Garden overlooks beautiful Clapham Common.
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The 3D Workshop.
College Principal Richard Chambers says: “Our aim is simple: we want to help young people in Lambeth meet their potential. That means giving them a College they can feel proud of, and which they want to attend. The new Clapham Centre enables us to provide the best Sixth Form provision in the Borough.”
The Clapham centre offers the widest range of courses in South London, including:
- Strong focus on skills for business and IT training
- A large number of vocational courses (many of which are not available at other Colleges in the borough)
- Health, Social Care and Child Care courses
- Media, multimedia and technology and 3D design
- Full and varied range of academic subjects
- Career Academies in Business and Computing
The focus of the new Sixth Form Centre is not just on A and AS Levels, but also wider skills and qualifications such as BTEC National Diplomas. Students will be well equipped to go straight into work or to progress to university.
Richard Chambers explains: “We wanted a building with ‘wow factor’ – an iconic building for Lambeth. The design radiates optimism about our collective ability to learn together. “
The College has invested substantially in IT to make the Centre a cutting-edge work environment and includes:
- Under floor cabling throughout the building
- Huge server capacity and flexible IT configuration
- Wireless access and touchdown zones for students who have their own laptops, and plenty of IT zones and plenty of PCs for those who don’t have them
Leisure and enrichment activities for students will continue to be developed, from chess to boxing and from BMX biking to driving theory lessons.
