Year 9 Options

Year 9 Options Letter 2025

YEAR 9 OPTIONS INFORMATION EVENING: MONDAY 27 JANUARY 2025

Please find a letter above inviting parents/carers and students to the Year 9 Options Evening on Monday 27 January 2025, from 5.30 pm - 7.30 pm.

There will be two talks in the Main Hall on the evening (one for students currently studying French and one for students currently studying Spanish).

There will also be a carousel of presentations from staff for those subjects that students have not yet studied before.

The key dates are as follows:

December 2024: The Year 9 Options Booklet is distributed.
Monday 27 January 2025: Year 9 Options Information Evening for parents/carers and students.
Monday 3 February 2025: Online Year 9 Teacher Feedback Event
After Tuesday 4 February 2025: Year 9 online form will be sent out to parents/carers to request your child's subject choices.
Friday 14 February 2025: Deadline for Year 9 online form to be submitted.
July 2025: Options confirmed to students.

There are some elements of the Key Stage 4 curriculum that are compulsory, students do not get a choice. Everyone will study English, Mathematics and Science.

Students will be set by ability for these subjects which will lead in most cases to five GCSE passes in English Language, English Literature, Science (Double Award) and Mathematics.

To complete the compulsory element of the curriculum there are two non-examinable subjects, Physical Education and Lifeskills (looking after the preparation for life beyond school, including careers education). Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural development of students is also promoted as part of the curriculum in lessons, along with Citizenship that is also delivered by Collapsed Days.

The compulsory elements of the curriculum will account for 36 out of 60 lessons of the timetable which runs over two weeks.

(If PE is chosen from one of the option blocks there will be additional lessons in the subject leading to a full GCSE examination or equivalent qualification).

To fill up the remainder of their timetable students will choose from two blocks of subjects.

Students will end up following one subject from Option A and three subjects from Option B.

With such a wide choice available we cannot guarantee that all students will be able to follow their first choice, we do not know what is possible until we receive all the students’ requests.