The Present
The college provides a range of A-level, GCSE and vocational courses to post-16 students in Stockton-on-Tees. Despite serving an area with a slightly below average achievement at GCSE level, the sixth form college achieved an A-level pass rate of 98.6% in 2012, with 32 subjects achieving 100%.
In 2012, the college revealed the results of a £4.5 refurbishment project which saw new areas for Art, Textiles, D&T, Media and Film, Sciences, ICT and Computing and pastoral care. A new Learning Resource Centre was also unveiled in January 2013.
The college facilities also include a Sport, Dance and Drama block, a joint venture between the college and Stockton Town Football Club.
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“In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,—do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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