Film Studies offers the chance to gain hands-on experience of filmmaking and explore film language, history, theory and criticism. You will study a wide variety of topics including classical Hollywood, contemporary American Independent film, UK and European cinema, film aesthetics, narrative, genre, ideology, contexts and spectatorship.

By studying Environmental Science you will learn about how physical and biological systems on Earth function and how these can become disrupted. We will investigate and critically evaluate advances in technology to produce energy, food and resources more efficiently. Planet Earth is the only planet we can all live on, so we must look after it and we will investigate the ways humans can use resources more sustainably.

If you enjoy reading and analysing literary texts, then this is the course for you.

A Level English Language and Literature is the ideal course if you have a love for literature but also a fascination with how language works in everyday contexts.

Imagine you could take your innermost thoughts and insert them into someone else’s mind. Well, you already have the ability to do this: it is called language. How do we learn how to speak and write? Where do words come from? Is the language currently being corrupted or is linguistic change gr8? By studying English Language you will explore these questions and more...

Economics is the science of how people make choices. Think of any situation that you have made a choice- studying Economics will give you a greater perspective on how you make decisions, as well as insight to how individuals, firms, governments, and societies choose those things that will make them better off. Economists are constantly analysing the way people approach decisions, and their findings are often interesting and surprising. Studying Economics will give you the tools to analyse your world and give you a fresh perspective.

If you enjoy learning about all aspects of drama and theatre then this course will really suit you. It is a practical course that explores the theoretical work of playwrights, directors and theatre companies that make theatre so exciting and diverse.

If you enjoy learning about the fundamental principles and concepts behind Computer Science and how software is engineered, then the Computer Science specification will stretch and challenge you. The course will provide you with valuable skills in a range of programming environments, how we use programming languages to solve a range of problems and how digital technology is used by others, particularly the moral, ethical, legal and cultural opportunities and risks. It will also help you to think creatively, innovatively, analytically, logically and critically as well as allowing you to apply practical mathematical skills.

“What have the Romans ever done for us?”… and the Greeks, too, for that matter! It is difficult to deny that a majority of the stories we tell, the art we make and consume, and the political and philosophical views that we contemplate, do not have a clear link to these two classical civilisations. From the Coen Brothers’ O Brother, Where art Thou? James Joyce’s Ulysses, to the Simpsons; from the system of democracy to the rule of law, much of our culture and everyday lives are defined by these two great civilisations.

Chemistry is one of the most useful A Levels to study; it is challenging, rewarding and well respected by employers and universities alike. It draws on a wide range of subjects ranging from physical chemistry calculations to the creative nature of organic synthesis. The skills gained are extremely transferable and chemists are renowned for being adaptable scholars and desirable employees.