Wondering if anyone can help us here.
DD is 15, in Y11, she’s doing her GCSEs in English Lang&Lit, Maths, Triple Science, History, French, Music & PE.
For A-Levels she wants to Maths, English Lit, French & Economics or PE (they start with 4 and then drop one if it’s too much).
The issue is DD does 2 sports and both come with so much training, she has tennis which she trains for 3 mornings a week 6.30-7.30, 2 nights a week 7-9, Sundays 3 hours. Then Track & Field/Athletics/Cross country which is 1.5 hours 2 times a week 7.30-9.
She also has a hour long piano lesson every week and tries to fit in practice daily.
Then we have competitions, at least one Saturday a month competing in Athletics (not including the inevitable school based competitions which end up on Saturdays). Then tennis again about once a month competing.
DD is unlikely to be pro in either sport, she’s good and has competed regionally in both (nationally in athletics but that’s through school). She has no idea what she wants to do going forward, she’s more focused on wanting to go to Loughborough than what she’d actually study. Her best subjects are PE, Maths and French (Predicted 9s) English, Music and Science are predicted 7/8s and History 6.
So I’m just wondering, what is the work load really going to be like in the next few months, right now she spends maybe 6/7 hours a week outside school on homework and studying. School have said this should be 15 hours but I’m not sure DD can actually fit in 15 hours without dropping a training session which she refuses to do. She doesn’t do any school work after school on Friday as she goes out with her friends (movie, friends house, house party etc.)
She also is working towards her Grade 7 in piano so she really ought to be practicing that everyday.
Can any teachers or parents of older kids help me out her?
Also DD claims she doesn’t really need to study for PE and Music, is that true?