Year 11 2025-2026
Welcome to the final year of your journey through Swavesey Village College
We will be building this page as Year 11 progresses, filling it with information, subject details, support and advice for your future and tips/revision notes for students (and parents).
It is an exciting year ahead for you all – one which will help you focus your future vision and help you learn and develop in new, exciting and mature ways. You will all be feeling slightly differently about what lies ahead; know that you are not alone in these emotions. The staff are all here to guide you through.
Study is a life long learning skill, central to our Village College ethos – but alongside this, make sure that you balance interests, hobbies, sports and arts. Whatever world this year leads you to, you need to remember grades are important but it is also important you leave us as the most rounded, confident and best person you can be.
As you go through the year, your tutor is your main day to day contact, but you can also contact your SSA, Head of House, Mr Suckling, Mrs Warburton and Miss Thompson (Exams) or students can ‘drop-in’ with Mrs Warburton on Friday lunch in Canteen 1. You will have tutor time sessions, assemblies, interventions, challenges and tasks to help you, but also ask if you need support, encouragement or even just a listening ear, at any time along the way.
Please use the Year 11 Exam Page for Exam specific information. Click Here
KEY DATES AUTUMN 2025
24th September – Year 11 School Photos
Monday 29th September – CAP Evening Sixth Form Colleges and opportunities – held at SVC
Thursday 9th October – Year 11 Information Evening held at SVC – setting you up for success! Students and parents to attend.
Tuesday 14th October – Tutor, Parent and Student evening
Wednesday 15th October – V&E Day 1 (Post 16 applications drafts/exam prep/finance)
Monday 10th – Friday 21st November – Year 11 PREP (mock) exams (plus Art on 26th & 27th November)
December Mock results back, CAP grades submitted and Post 16 applications completed
11th December – Values & Experience Day 2
15th December (week beginning) – Year 11 reports emailed home
KEY DATES SPRING 2026
January & February – Guidance meetings held with Colleges and Students
January – new PE intervention and P6 support sessions start
Thursday 15th January – Year 11 Subject Teachers & Parents’ evening IN PERSON at SVC – please book via My Child at School app for appointments.
Weeks after – Academic mentoring of Year 11s with Students and Tutors
Monday 23rd February – Friday 6th March – Year 11 Spring Prep exams start (two weeks plus Art/Photo. See emails, Bulletin and Exams page for timetable)
Wednesday 11th March – Year 11 V&E Day 3 – ‘The Final Countdown’ – Survival and Success!
Thursday 26th March – Year 11 Exam Series information evening
SUMMER TERM DATES 2026
April – Art & Photography GCSE exams Date TBC
TBC – Week beginning 27th April – MFL speaking GCSE exams
20th April – 1st May – Year 11 reports home and Student/Tutor academic mentoring takes place
MONDAY 11th MAY – EXAMS START
Tuesday 23rd June 2026 – Leavers’ Day (afternoon – timings tbc)
Thursday 25th June 2026 – SVC Year 11 Prom!
THURSDAY 20TH AUGUST 2026 – RESULTS DAY
Post 16 – see advice on our Post 16 page here.
Links to schools/college websites:
- Cambridge Maths School Welcome – Cambridge Maths School (tela.org.uk)
- Cambridge Regional College http://www.camre.ac.uk
- Chesterton Sixth Form Welcome – Chesterton Sixth Form (tela.org.uk)
- College of Animal Welfare Godmanchester http://www.caw.ac.uk
- College of West Anglia http://www.col-westanglia.ac.uk
- Comberton Sixth form http://www.combertonsixthform.org
- Cottenham Sixth Form http://www.cottenhamsixthform.org
- Ely Bishop Laney Sixth Form Centre http://www.elycollege.com/sf
- Hills Road Sixth Form College Cambridge http://www.hillsroad.ac.uk
- Huntingdon Regional College http://www.huntingdon.ac.uk
- Impington Village College Sixth Form http://www.impington.cambs.sch.uk
- Long Road Sixth Form College Cambridge http://www.longroad.ac.uk
- Northstowe Sixth Form College https://sixthform.northstowe.education
- The Oakes Cambridge http://www.oakescc.org
- Parkside Sixth Form http://www.parksidesixth.org.uk
- Peterborough Regional College http://www.peterborough.ac.uk
- The St Ivo School St Ives http://www.stivoschool.org
- National website for apprenticeships http://www.apprenticeships.org.uk
Useful Websites:
National Careers Service Apprenticeships | National Careers Service