BOHUNT School is getting ready to welcome sixth form students for the first time into a purpose-built building nearing completion.

The sixth form students will occupy a three-storey building specifically tailored to meet the needs of A level students, and featuring state-of-the-art facilities reflecting the curriculum on offer.

The teaching will provide students with a different, personalised learning experience, offering a taste and insight into university life.

Bohunt Sixth Form will open in September for students from across the area.

There will be four undergraduate-style science laboratories, equipped with the most modern apparatus, an ‘ideas wall’ to encourage student group work, and benches for experiment and theory work.

The library and resource centre will include individual study stations and computers, as well as a large screen television for students to watch streamed lectures and innovative events from universities across the country.

Seminar rooms will match the undergraduate feel of small study groups.

The computer science room will contain high specification computers, tailored to the needs of science and photography students for their A level courses.

There is also a designated visual arts room with individual creative work spaces.

The music rooms will include recording facilities while for drama students – and guest speakers – there will be a performance space.

The new Bohunt Sixth Form students will also be able to work, eat and socialise in the main cafe.

Bohunt Sixth Form will build on the Bohunt Education Trust’s existing schools, including Bohunt School, which is rated Outstanding in every category and has Teaching School status.

Guidance interviews are taking place for prospective students and applications are still welcome. In the summer, there will be opportunities to visit the building.

Bohunt Sixth Form headteacher Clare Hodgson said: “We are delighted with how the new building is developing, and are so excited by the high quality of learning and teaching spaces that students will be able to enjoy.

“It really is an extraordinary building, providing everything that sixth form students will need to progress to leading universities.

“It is fitting that the standard of the building will match the quality of teaching and the aspirations of our students.”