Year 9 - choosing options - how is it going?

As we say ...the Geek shall inherit the earth!

DD is doing maths early but that doesn't mean getting it out of the way, they just move on to do half an A level.

Re the drama being an easier option, my friends son did it and found it heavy going, maybe not academically but it took an awful lot of his time. Loads of coursework.

Forgot to mention.....he is doing a Btech (???) in Music....he DOES NOT play a musical instrument but is (according to his Music teacher) 'an amazing singer???' Yes he does sing well - but OMG......

My DS4 (13yrs) and the rest of Year 9 have picked their own subjects, signed up for them, all done and dusted and the parents will be able to talk about it to the teachers at Parents evening in February

They have had no careers advice - in fact DS4 asked his favourite teacher (Maths) what subjects she would do if she wanted to create and design video games for a career??????? Luckily for him, and us, she seems to have advised him well.

A local high school with 2,200 pupils....a small minority of clever, interested, studious students - glad to say my son is one of the minority - he says the rest of the students call them 'The Geek club!!!'

He, and the rest of his set are going to be fast-tracked so that they will do some GCSE's in Year 10 all I can say is 'Hang on to your hats ladies....its going to be a bumpy ride!!!!'

Well we haven't been informed of very much from dd1's school (no surprise there then!). She has a Learn4Life day tomorrow and Monday in which they are having 'taster' sessions of the subjects? We won't get anything 'official' until March I don't think - which seems a lot later than all of you? DD1 was talking about Pathways but she doesn't really know which she will be on or what it means properly.

Favour that should read- hate predictive text on iPad.
Dd is also doing Pe.

Dd is dropping FRench in favourite of Spanish.
She is gutted that Ict is compulsory, and is debating between history and drama. Drama being the easier option.
She still loves school and has not succumbed to year 9 angst.

It just seems normal to me roisin as DS is my third child to go through this school!

I think DD will be doing 10

GrapefruitMoon as was signing in!

We have a meeting in a couple of weeks to talk about the options. The compulsory ones are Maths, English (2), Science, Core MFL & RE. RE seems to be compulsory in most of our local schools... There is also talk that it will be compulsory to take History or Geography because of the new English Bacc thing... if that is the case there will only be two real choices left I think.

DD wants to do triple science, hope that works out as her grades are not what they should be, same goes for History & Geography but won't bore you with the details as I have done enough threads about it!

I'm not sure what she will choose for her remaining options - she's not keen on keeping on any of the Tech ones or IT, PE or Art. So maybe an additional language or Drama

Assuming that there is no change this year DS will do Science x3, English x2, Maths, RS, IT (not GCSE - OCR nationals whatever they are!) a language plus 3 others so 11 GCSEs and the IT thing.

Ah webwiz. Perhaps I am making the wrong assumption. How many GCSEs do yours do?

It doesn't remove an option choice at my DCs school RatherBeOnThePiste - the top set just do it in the available time.

I would be annoyed at that too I think!

I hadn't really taken it in the triple science would remove an option choice. Thick I know. DD wants to do trip sci but is going to end up choosing one from history, geog, RS. I think. Lol.

I'm new to mumsnet and this thread but we're going through it with DS1 at the moment.

He thinks he know what he wants to on top of the core subjects at his school (Eng/Eng Lit, Maths, Triple Science, RE, ICT) and is currently looking at City and Guilds in Engineering (2 GCSE Equiv.), Business Studies. Triple science takes up an option too as they only do double science as standard.

We're rather annoyed that he has to do RE though as both hubby and I feel its a pointless subject and don't understand why he has to do it as it's not a C of E school. He would have liked to have done spanish as well but can't.

Meeting at school tonight and I'm going to question them about it.

I don't think I was on the old thread, but this is about to come to us too. At the moment DD doesn't want to give anything up except DT! Our Parents' Evening is just before Half Term so I expect that will be the decision time.

We have parents evening next week so the whole thing starts then. DS will have to do triple science, IT, RS and a language and so just has three options. He wants to do History and Drama for two of them and has no clue for the last one.