John Leggott College
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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.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.[1] 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 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[2] In 2003, it 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 Scunthorpe and North Lincolnshire Concert Society.
[edit] Alumni
- Kevin Doyle, actor (1977-9)
- Nina Nannar, ITN correspondent (1980-2)
- Mark Allatt, General Secretary of Conservative Way Forward (1982-4)
- Darren Bett, BBC weather forecaster (1984-6)
- Victoria Graham, BBC weather forecaster (1989-91)
- Stephen Fretwell, song writer (1998-2000)
