Year 10 Options Starting September 2024
Students in Year 9 have followed a broad curriculum during Key Stage 3, with everybody having had the opportunity to experience the same wide range of subjects.
From September 2024, students will begin courses that directly lead to GCSE or other qualification at the end of Year 11. They will study fewer subjects but to greater depth. They will have to decide which subjects in Year 9 they wish to continue and which they will drop. Several subjects remain compulsory while others are chosen from a system of options.
All GCSE subjects will be awarded the new grades ranging from 1-9. A standard pass is 4, a good pass is grade 5 or above.
The purpose of this information is to explain the pattern of courses available, both compulsory and optional, and to help students and their parents make informed choices about what type of course and which subjects best suit them. Other sources of help and advice are indicated in the pages that follow.
There is a video that details the options process in more detail and a link to a video called Shift Happens that looks at how the world of work is changing.
The pattern of subjects chosen at this stage may have a bearing on a student’s future choice of career or course in the Sixth Form or Further Education. I hope, therefore, that this information will prove to be valuable in making the decisions with which students are now faced.
Click here for the Year 10 Options Form Starting September 2024 Please complete the options form by Tuesday 27th February.
The Core Subjects - These are subjects which all students have to take as part of the National Curriculum
The EBacc Subjects - You must choose one MFL
The EBacc Subjects - You must choose at least one of these Humanities
The Other Option Examination Subjects