John Leggott College

John Leggott College is a highly-regarded sixth form college on "West Common Lane", in Brumby, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, UK. It is situated near to North Lindsey College.

History

The college began in 1964 as the John Leggott Grammar School with 600 pupils for ages 11-18. The sixth form college was established in 1968, when education in Scunthorpe was reorganised. It is commonly known as JLC, and now has about 2000 pupils.

Performance

The college is one of the best performing 6th form colleges in the country and rarely leaves the top 10 sixth form colleges in national A-level results.The college is of beacon standard and is a winner of many prestigious prizes in the country. [ [http://www.leggott.ac.uk/sections/beacon/awards/awards_main.html Beacon Status page at leggott.ac.uk] ] It is not a typical further education college, in that it concentrates on A levels (academic subjects, not vocation courses such as NVQ). North Lindsey College next door offers more vocational courses.Some of the A-level courses available at John Leggott ask for certain GCSE results in order to be allowed onto the course and, in this way, it has characteristics of a selective school (as most sixth form colleges have). However, the college aims to accommodate all students, regardless of ability, and consequently offers a wide range of GCSE courses for people who wish to improve their previous result or indeed gain a qualification that was not on offer at their secondary education establishment. Students can take a combination of GCSE and A-level courses to suit their requirements.

Much of the college's success is associated with ex-principal David Linnell OBE, who resigned at the end of December 2006 to take up a post at Cornwall College. He was replaced by [http://www.nicholasdakin.me.uk Nicholas Dakin] , former vice-principal and local Labour party leader, being the leader of North Lincolnshire Council from 1997-2003.

The college has always received excellent reports from Ofsted [ [http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/reports/pdf/?inspectionNumber=298880&providerCategoryID=128&fileName=%5C%5Cschool%5C%5C130%5C%5Ccdd_130588_20061111.pdf Sample Ofsted report] ] In 2003, it [http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,9830,898740,00.html won] a national award, the Queen's Anniversary Prize, for its science teaching.

The college provides a wide range of courses for A - level studies including, in addition to the more traditional academic studies:
* BTec Media
* BTec Physical Education
* BTec IT
* Critical Thinking
* Applied A-level Health & Social Care
* Photography
* Textiles

It hosts music concerts for the [http://www.music-link.org/soc-org/scun-nlincs-cs.html Scunthorpe and North Lincolnshire Concert Society] .

Alumni

* Kevin Doyle, actor (1977-9)
* Nina Nannar, ITN correspondent (1980-2)
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/election97/candidates/1108.htm Mark Allatt] , General Secretary of Conservative Way Forward (1982-4)
* Darren Bett, BBC weather forecaster (1984-6)
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/bbcweather/forecasters/victoriagraham.shtml Victoria Graham] , BBC weather forecaster (1989-91)
* Stephen Fretwell, song writer (1998-2000)

References

External links

* [http://www.leggott.ac.uk John Leggott College official website]
* [http://www.leggott.co.uk Course materials]

Video clips

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_wjt-V_l8 A tour of the college]