WHY LOCKERBIE COLLEGE?

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ACHIEVEMENT, ABILITY, & LIFELONG LEARNING

The disparity between academic achievement and the ability parents see in their children is often the reason students join us.

However, more and more parents recognise that for their children to be truly prepared for a career in the twenty-first century, the foundation that school provides must be purposefully laid and learning must happen in a future-facing environment.  

A school needs to be a space of innovation, helping students prepare for career paths yet to be created; they must be astute in their choices if they are to chart successful pathways to university study. This is why the world is our classroom.

Students are asking for exactly what research supports: experiential learning that reflects real-world settings in universities and workplaces; this extends beyond digital technology. That is why teaching and learning at Lockerbie is continually evolving.

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TRANSFER TO LOCKERBIE

Lockerbie is frequently a transfer school. Students transfer to us at any time during the school year and at any academic level . When parents realise that their children are not functioning well, are being under-taught, are not adequately accommodated or just not reaching their potential, students are moved to us. 

THERE ARE SEVERAL POINTS OF ENTRY:

  • Ex-pats enroll their children on arrival in Barbados; 
  • Students join us at the Primary level for help in achieving high 11+ grades;
  • Students join us in Forms 1 through 4 (Grades 6 through 9) for robust learning to achieve the confidence and knowledge to achieve results at CSEC (Grade 10, O Level equivalent);
  • After CSEC (Grade 10, O Level equivalent) students come to us for Cambridge International A Levels to gain university entry.

GRADUATION

At Lockerbie College, our results are statistically accurate.  We believe every student has the right to sit the exams for which they have attended classes. We honour the right to education in its entirety, including exam entry, as laid out in the UN Charter on the Rights of the Child. Therefore, our results are not skewed to reflect students excluded from exam sitting.  Among many Barbadian schools, this is not a common practice.