Bilborough Sixth Form College is a

sixth-form college A sixth form college is an educational institution, where students aged 16 to 19 typically study for advanced school-level qualifications, such as A Levels, Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC) and the International Baccalaureate Di ...

Nottingham, England Nottingham ( , locally ) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robin ...

. The college has students from across the conurbation. A third of its students come from Nottingham, another third from the surrounding county of

Nottinghamshire Nottinghamshire (; abbreviated Notts.) is a landlocked county in the East Midlands region of England, bordering South Yorkshire to the north-west, Lincolnshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south, and Derbyshire to the west. The trad ...

, and a final third from

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...

. The majority of students will study at the college for two years.

History

Opened in 1957 as Bilborough Grammar School, the school became a

in 1975 when Nottingham's education system became comprehensive. The college has grown from 635 students to 1600 full-time students enrolled to be attending the college in September 2016. The new accommodations opened officially on 21 July, 2006. The new building is divided into 3 blocks (A, B, and C), and 4 floors (0-3). The new building has a photographic lab, lecture theatre,

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

, shop,

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, large

art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ...

rooms,

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, and "soundproof"

music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspe ...

rooms. The development, designed by

CPMG Architects CPMG Architects is an architectural practice in Nottingham. History The practice was established in 1997 from the merger of two local companies, ''Crampin Pring'', and ''James McArtney''. With Jack Gant, the initials of the four architects ...

, has already won a design award from the local

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, and has more recently received the Lord Mayor of Nottingham's Award for Urban Design.

Curriculum

The

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is based on A-level provision with the option for some BTEC qualifications. The college offers students the opportunity to study a wide variety of subjects.

A Level

BTEC

The college offers BTEC qualifications across the following areas: * Performing Arts * Information Technology * Creative Digital Media Production * Business * Sport * Applied Science

International Baccalaureate

The

International Baccalaureate The International Baccalaureate (IB), formerly known as the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and founded in 1968. It offers four educational programmes: the IB D ...

was taught at the college from 2009 to 2016 and celebrated some of the best national results, including three 40+ scores.

Academic performance

Bilborough College students have had A-level pass rates exceeding 98% since 2004, with 27 of the subjects on offer reaching pass rates of 100%. Twenty-five per cent of entries achieved A*- A, 3% more than the previous year, while over 50% achieved grades A*-B. The most recent Ofsted inspection, in 2020, found the college rated as “good” in all categories by inspectors. The college was also rated good in the previous inspection in 2016.

Alumni

* Rosie Barnes, former SDP MP *

Tom Blyth Tom Keir Blyth (born 2 February 1995) is an English actor. His films include '' Scott and Sid'' (2018) and ''Benediction'' (2021). He stars as the titular character of the Epix series ''Billy the Kid'' (2022), and will star in ''The Hunger Games ...

, actor *

Alice Levine Alice Esme Levine (born 8 July 1986) is an English radio and television presenter, narrator, and comedian. Early life and education Levine was born in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. Her father is a retired lecturer at the University of Nottingham. H ...

, DJ and presenter *

Molly Windsor Molly Windsor (born 19 June 1997) is an English actress. Her breakthrough role was in the 2009 Channel 4 television film ''The Unloved'', and has appeared in ''Oranges and Sunshine'' (2010), and '' The Runaways'' (2019). She is best known for her ...

, Actress and winner of the 2018 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress *

Nadia Whittome Nadia Edith Whittome (born 29 August 1996) is a British politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham East since the 2019 general election. A member of the Labour Party, she was elected at the age of 23, and became the ...

, British Labour Politician, MP for Nottingham East since 2019

References

External links

Bilborough College Website

Aluminium use in building

Ofsted Report

Former grammar school (BGS)
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