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Year 9 options. What is she supposed to chose?

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EccentricaGallumbits · 03/02/2010 17:36

She has no idea and all she wants is to send time looking beautiful, dancing and giggling with her mates.

There is a parents evening science discussion thingy tomorrow and it's been recommended she does the stage 2 ?) bit but she has no idea if she wants to do drama, art, music or something else, while i'd rather she did 'real' subjects and she's adamant that she's not doing history or geography and only french.

I suppose they'll give some info about what direction to force encourage them in?

i should be thankful that she's fairly bright and keen and at least goes to scool. i can imagine how shockingly bad this is going to be in 2 years with DD2.

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GrungeBlobPrimpants · 03/02/2010 20:15

Going through this at the moment

Will go against grain here in that I'm basically an Enlightened Despot and am not keen on dc's having too free a choice. At 13 it's difficult to imagine the future, but you don't want to close down options. Luckily dd has chosen sensibly but there is a sticking point over preference order. Couple of friends of mine having arguments over humanities v: media studies/farkin diplomas. There's GCSES, OCR nationals (whatever they are), diplomas, BTECs, and god knows what else.

I wouldn't trust the school to steer in the serious direction either

Bring back choice of fewer and proper subjects, I say. Like In My Day.

PixieOnaLeaf · 03/02/2010 20:05

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littleducks · 03/02/2010 20:04

How much choice does she have, how about she does one serious subject hist/geog and one 'fun' subject like drama/art

Art GCSE can be hard though dependant on school and exam board, lots of coursework so very time consuming

Does she have any idea on a degree that she wants to do, we were told to look at what unis needed in entry requirements and work our way back. So if you need A Level Geog, it makes sense to have GCSE Geog as school/college often want that as an entry requirement, and even if they dont it makes ir far easier.

RatherBeOnThePiste · 03/02/2010 19:58

I wonder what they would call it if they did maybe GCSE in Titivating ?

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EccentricaGallumbits · 03/02/2010 17:48

logically i know that. but they don't do GCSEs in hair straightening and perfecting your photo pout.

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RatherBeOnThePiste · 03/02/2010 17:43

what meemar said

DDs school says they will do better in subjects they want to do. There are probably certain subjects she has to do? The actual choice she has is probably minimal.

DDs school also said there is nothing worse than having grumpy teenagers taking subjects they din't want to do.

meemar · 03/02/2010 17:41

my advice let her do what interests her now, rather than thinking of future career. She is more likely to do well in it. There are no bad subjects.

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