Health and Social Care

Applications Open: - Friday 28th November 2025

Applications Close: - Friday 6 February 2026 - Please note - If you do not complete your application fully by the deadline of Friday 6 February 2026, we may not be able to consider it until August when GCSE results are published.

How to Apply:

Internal students - Applications to join our Sixth Form, via Applicaa, can be made via this link Mayfield Grammar School, Gravesend (applicaa.com). PLEASE NOTE that you should use an e-mail address that you check regularly as the Applicca system will contact you with updates about your application.

External students - Year 11 Students from other schools applying to Mayfield Grammar School should apply via KentChoices using this link - https://www.kentprospectus.co.uk/login. Please note - After sending your application, you'll receive a welcome email from Applicaa asking for further information.

If you applied to us before the deadline but have not heard from us for a while please bear with us, we are working through the applications and will get back to you with our decision and advice as soon as we can. We will continue to send messages via Applicaa so please logon from time to time to check if we need some additional information from you

Applications After the deadline

Students who are interested in applying to Mayfield Grammar School for Sixth Form but have missed our application process can contact us once they have their GCSE results in August. After the publication of GCSE examinations results in August we ask that you make an appointment to discuss your application with the Sixth Form team. You need to call 01474 352896 or email admissions@mgsg.kent.sch.uk. Please check you have met our entry criteria for the subjects you want to study and read our Options Booklet under the Sixth Form tab on our website for our general entry criteria. If you meet our criteria, please get in touch, and bring your original documents for GCSE Results Summary and Birth Certificate as ID when you are offered an appointment.

Entry Requirements: -

Entry to the Sixth Form is dependent on demonstrating achievements which show general breadth of ability as well as depth in the specific courses chosen for study in the Sixth Form. For this reason you will need to have achieved all the following:

1. A minimum of 6 GCSEs at Grade 5 and above, preferably on the higher papers, in discrete subjects, with the exception of Combined Science, which counts as two subjects.

2. Grade 5 or above in GCSE English and GCSE Mathematics.

3. To have met the requirements of the individual subjects that you intend to study at A Level/Level 3, which are all, with the exception of Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Further Mathematics and Languages, a minimum of Grade 6 at GCSE on the Higher papers. This is essential.

The OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Certificate in Health and Social Care qualification is designed to provide learners with underpinning knowledge, understanding and skills of the health and social care sectors, providing a broad basis for further or higher education or for moving into employment within the sectors. The Extended Certificate in Health and Social Care enables learners to gain essential employability skills that are valued by employers, further and higher education including: literacy and numeracy, digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem solving, planning and organisation, creativity and innovation, personal effectiveness

Year 1 (Year 12 Content)

Unit 2: Equality, Diversity and Rights in Health and Social Care: This unit will help you to understand the implications of diversity on practice and the effects of discriminatory practice on individuals who require care or support. You will also gain an appreciation of how legislation and national initiatives can support and promote anti-discriminatory practice. Strategies used to promote equality, respect diversity and support individuals’ rights will be examined.

Unit 4: Anatomy and Physiology for Health and Social Care, Illness and Disability: This unit aims to introduce you to the basic structure and functions of the body systems involved in everyday activities and maintenance of health, including cardiovascular, respiratory, and digestive systems. Unfortunately, things do go wrong, and each system has well-known diseases and disorders. Also, as individuals grow older, they are likely to be affected by malfunctions as a result of degeneration.

Unit 13: Sexual health, reproduction, and early development stages: Health and wellbeing are not just relevant when you are an adult; it is just as relevant when you are a child and, as this unit demonstrates, health and wellbeing is of vital importance even before you are born. This unit will also look at the development from conception to a one-year-old child. On successful completion you will have a sound understanding of the importance of sexual health and contraception. You will understand pre-natal health and the various stages of pregnancy and the factors that could have an impact.

Year 2 (Year 13 Content)

Unit 1: Building Relationships in Health and Social Care: This unit aims to introduce you to the many different relationships that you will encounter within the health and social care sector, whether with colleagues, senior members of staff, other professionals within the sector or individuals who require care and support. You will also be introduced to the concept of the person-centred approach which will help with your relationship building skills.

Unit 3: Health, safety and security in Health and Social Care: This unit introduces you to health, safety and security in health and social care. You will learn how legislation, policies and procedures work to reduce risks in health and social care and the consequences of not following them.

Unit 24: Public Health: Health and wellbeing extends further than the individual and the implication of poor health has wider impacted on a community, area and even the country. There are many external factors to good health. Clean water and limiting pollution are just two factors that have an influence on our health. Public health is concerned with protecting and improving the health of the population, rather than focusing on the health of the individual. You will gain an understanding of current public health strategies and initiatives and consider the effectiveness and the implications of health policy for the wider population.

The Health and Social Care Extended Certificate comprises of 6 units. Three units are assessed internally, with the remaining units examined externally. The extended certificate carries UCAS Points and appears on the UCAS Tariff Calculator. It is equivalent to an A Level and is recognised by many universities, including Russell Group institutions.

Grade 6 at GCSE in either English Language, English Literature or a Humanities Subject. Grade 6 in a Science or 6,5 in Combined Science

University requirements

Typical grade requirements to study Health and Social care or a related degree are as follows: Russell Group: ABB to BBB; Non Russell Group: ABB to CCC

Links to Further Education

Any social science degree

Links to Careers

Social worker, Youth Worker, Charity Worker, Nursing, Children’s Services; Public Service/Community work.