Dd will be going to a specialist music school after the summer holidays, where she will be having 4 extra hours of music tuition per week. To accommodate this, she needs to drop 4 subjects in S1 but will have to do them in S2. She has to do maths and english, wants to do science and I will insist she does french - drama and PE are also on the list as probables.
She can choose to do 4 out of art, design and technology, home economics, ICT and RME, or do social science (a combination of history, geography and modern studies) with one of the 5 other subjects mentioned.
It is unlikely that she will study any of these subjects to higher level, and probably not to national 5 level either. Is there any value in her taking the more 'academic' social sciences, or will she get more benefit from the more 'arty' subjects? I hear that some of these 'arty' subjects have more homework than you would imagine, and may not be the easy option you would think them to be?
When I was at 6th form, I based my subject choices (apart from my actual A level classes) on whether I could skive off them easily enough, whether they had exams and how much effort I had to put in. I am not sure if I am best placed to advise her....
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Soapysuds64 · 19/06/2014 12:50
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