Your Year 9 child now has the opportunity to consider the courses which are available to them to study throughout years 10 and 11, (some will begin in year 9). This means that your child’s curriculum will be more personalised, and they will have some choice in determining the subjects that they study. These choices should provide a broad and balanced curriculum that will enable them to progress to the next stage of education, training or employment.

Timeline for Options 

The list below states when all options related activities will take place:

To-do list:  

1. Look at all the Options materials available online. Make sure you understand how the Options form will work and how many subject preferences you can make.

2. Attend the Options Assembly and submit questions via Google form to teachers.

3. Plan who you want to speak to and what you are going to ask on Wednesday 8th February at the Careers and Employability afternoon and Options Subject drop-in Evening, and attend these events.

4. Access the Options Google form sent via student email accounts from Thursday 9th February.

5. Submit the Options Google form by Monday 27th February.

Options Booklet

 

How do I choose options?

All students will have an assembly, where the options process will be introduced and explained to them.

The school will be holding an Options evening for students and parents/carers, which will be on Wednesday 8th February between 4.30 and 6.30, with access to an additional Careers Event between 4pm and 5.30pm. 

During this, students and parents/carers will have the opportunity to attend a presentation about the options process, as well as finding out more about the courses from the subject teams who teach them, so that students are empowered to make the most appropriate choices for them. 

Submitting options choices 

Student choices should be submitted using the Google Form via the link sent to their school email account and on the Options website on Thursday 9th February. Options choices must be received no later than Monday 27th February. 

Any student who has not chosen their options by this deadline will be supported to make their choices in school, but may have to pick from a reduced selection, as priority will be given to students who have submitted their choices by the deadline. 

What happens after 27th February? 

Once all course choices have been made, they will be collated, analysed and students will be assigned to groups. Options choices should be finalised in the weeks between the deadline and the April holiday. Students and parents/carers will be informed via email of the choices which have been allocated to students. 

Who can I ask for help?

Pathways and Progression Leader (Mrs Spencer-Hall)

Form tutors

Subject Teachers

Heads of department

Parents/Carers

Students

Career Pilot

Yourself-give yourself some thinking time

Course Overview

 

Core- Examined	GCSE English GCSE English Literature GCSE Mathematics GCSE Separate Sciences
Core- Non-examined	Complementary Studies Core PE
Languages	GCSE French GCSE Spanish	Choice made in September Year 9.
Humanities	GCSE History GCSE Geography GCSE Religious Studies	Choose a 1st and 2nd preference.
Vocational	BTEC Enterprise BTEC Health and Social Care OCR Cambridge National Certificate Sport Science  BTEC Digital Information Technology	Choose a 1st and 2nd preference.
Open	GCSE Art & Design: Fine Art GCSE Art & Design: Textile Design GCSE Computer Science GCSE Design and Technology GCSE Food Preparation and Nutrition GCSE Music	Choose a 1st, 2nd and 3rd preference.
Personalised Subjects	Study +	Students will be contacted on an individual basis.