News and Events



Here you can find the latest news and announcements from TBEC 6th form.

Lincs Expertise Rocks Gibraltar
Extract from the Business News Supplement of the Grimsby Telegraph 15 July 2008. Expertise from the South Bank is being...

Employers say Drop Academic Diplomas
Britain's biggest business organisation is calling on the Government to scrap plans for academic diplomas to replace A-l...

Award for Rising Young Ref Elliott
An award-winning referee from Grimsby is climbing the ladder towards the bright lights of the Premier League.Eighteen-ye...

IB Fun Day
Time to Become Everything you CanDear student,IB Fun DayWe would like to invite you to an IB Fun Day on Friday, 18 July ...

This is the reason for Tollbar choosing IB
Article from the Daily Telegraph 4 June 2008 University Introduces Tests for all Applicants Students a...

Target 2.0 Competition
The Bank of England runs the Target 2.0 competition annually for A-Level students. Students are given access to a wealth...

Student Earth Summit
Tuesday 20th November – 21st November 2007 In November, ten Sixth Form students left the College at 5.30am for...

Primary Links
We currently have two year 13 students, Cally Boyce and Lauren Lewis, working at Waltham Leas Junior School. Lauren goes...

Bar National Mock Trial Competition
On Saturday 24th November, 13 students from Tollbar College departed for Leeds Crown Courts for the annual National Bar ...

ICT in the Local Community
Two Year 13 students have been working with members of the local community for over a year as part of a community link p...

Charity Day Christmas 2007
Before Christmas, the Sixth Form held their annual Christmas Charity Day to raise money for different charities. This ye...

Beachwatch 2007
Cleethorpes is regarded as one of the cleanest beaches in the country, yet in a two hour period a group of Tollbar stud...

Major universities warn 'soft' A-level students
Press article from The Daily Telegraph 7 January 2008Major universities warn 'soft' A-level studentsInst...

Views of a previous IB student who is now a highly successful international businessman
The IB I took in 1989, seems not to have changed at all: six subjects to take at a mixture of higher and standard level,...

No More Moving Grades
Hours of thought and discussion have gone into the radical decision to scrap A-Levels in favour of the International Ba...

Preparing for Universities
During the two-year International Baccalaureate Diploma programme pupils have to research and write a 4000 word essay.Th...