I'm a School Governor (only been in place since April so still learning).
Our school currently offer 4 GCSE options to our students (as well as the normal Eng Lang & Lit, Maths and triple Science etc)
We normally manage to offer all the students all their choices. We don't force them into the Ebacc I.e don't insist on them choosing History/Geography and a language, although we do weight the options to encourage this. Our Ebacc uptake and success is fairly good but could be much better.
Overall, our attainment is around 70% of pupils achieving grade 5-9 in English, Maths. However our Progress 8 is below average.
We are a 'leafy' comp, very strong in the Arts serving a fairly MC/affluent area, however we border areas with lots more disadvantaged families. These students make up about a 1/4 of our student body.
Our Governing Body and SLT are currently discussing the possibility of reducing our number of GCSE options.
It's very early days (yet to have a full meeting about it).
However, in order to go with some gauge on how others do it, can I ask -
How many options does your school offer?
Do they weight the options to Ebacc?
Did the Arts options suffered and not taken as much or not encouraged?
If they changed from 8 to 7 (or less) Did it improve your academic results?
How do they present the options? Which subjects in which blocks/boxes.
Thanks.
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Milicentbystander72 · 27/11/2019 09:14
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