“Teaching well” is very subjective. What one may consider to be good teaching another may consider it poor. Everyone is different, again I repeat that these students are bright, they just didn’t fit in with the LAE’s standard.

Everyone is bright, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life thinking its stupid. My point is that just because someone didn’t succeed in one school doesn’t mean they won’t elsewhere, it also doesn’t mean the teaching is poor and nor does it mean the school is ineffective. I am sure each of those students will go on to do amazing things in other amazing places, but we shouldn’t assume the school was the problem. Look at all the other students that did outstandingly well in their A Levels.

Having one selective school amongst many other nonselective ones should stop being treated as a civil wrong.

LAE’s vision is clear and concise. To provide excellent teaching for the facilitating subjects that allow people to progress onto Russel Group universities.

Although the comments on teaching are not entirely false, as teachers have left throughout the year – but this was expected. We are still in the early years of the Academy currently I am only part of the second ever cohort to study their A2 levels. LAE has ensured teachers are always replaced with equal teaching abilities before it affects the learning of the students.

If it is clear on results day that you did not achieve these grades, you are then offered several conversations with senior leadership team members of LAE, yes you are told that it is best to consider studying elsewhere but many at LAE are re-taking their first year at A level and many on their A2 course are even re-takes. This is not mentioned in this article.

At the end of the day, you will have teachers good and bad at every institution you go to. It is ultimately up to the student to ensure the desired grade is achieved.

LAE had made it VERY clear that you need a minimum of 3C’s to enter A2 and others were given opportunities to retake year 12 if they wish. In addition to this, you cannot do traditional A-level subjects and expect it to be easy. Some of the students that didn’t enter A2 it was quite unfortunate but they even admitted that they didn’t work as hard as they should have. Others that got kicked, I’m actually glad they didn’t because they were a completely distracting and clearly not in the frame of mind of studying A-levels.

I don’t know of any other sixth form that supports students as much as LAE does. If you feel you need more support, all you have to do is go after school to the teachers and they will be willing to help. I used to stay after school and even go to school during study leave and the teachers would always be there to help you with whatever you needed. In regards to comments about having so many teachers leave. I agree with that. I too had the same issue. However, if a teacher were to leave, LAE had immediately found a replacement teacher who was equally qualified or better than the previous teacher. Sometimes LAE would even get teachers who used to teach at our partnering private schools. Even after all of this, she found it hard to learn in her subject, she could’ve always switched to the old fashioned method of learning from a text book. I still managed to get an A’s in Economics and Physics even with several teachers leaving throughout the year. I strongly believe that these students who didn’t enter A2 were students who didn’t put as much effort into their studies as they should have.

Last, I find it quite amusing how Newvic took this opportunity to try and make LAE look bad. Newvic, please stop being jealous of LAE, it’s quite pathetic.

I’m a student who is now in year 13 and this is my personal opinion that I also believe represent my peers opinion too. I wouldn’t have spent time writing this up if I didn’t feel strongly against this article. LAE is a very good sixth form and I have no objection to the decisions the school has made.

[edited to remove reference to other students]