Convincing college to take my daughter

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My daughter just missed her gcse maths (she’ll resit November, she had a tutor) and her college have put her in a transition program which is equivalent to 2 gcses for a whole year. We think this is unfair and a waste of a year. Has anyone else been in a similar situation? And how did you convince the college to let them go straight to a level. It’s Collyers college in Sussex.

This is interesting as I’ve just come from a Carter’s guidance at Oxford College.
They were amazing with my son and basically he’s able to take a BTEC and have a study group along side who are all resitting GCSE English or Maths.
Apparently there’s lots more than normal this year given the circumstances.
He only had a 3 in English but it seemed their priority was to get him on the course.

Transition year in my college is really for students who have 4s and below pretty much across the board. They do a level 2 BTEC (equivalent to 2 GCSEs) and maths and English as needed. What other GCSEs did she get?

Hi there she passed everything else with 4s and a grade 5 in her English language and French and she failed one science. So she could be considered borderline. She was being heavily bullied during the mocks in March - we had to get the police involved and this really impacted her assessed grades

She got a 3 in her maths

At my college she’d definitely get on to a level 3 BTEC course - maybe even 2x BTEC blocks and one A-level if she could show commitment/willingness in something like Art or Drama. A level 2 course seems inappropriate for that student. Could you find another centre to try? I doubt anywhere would let her do three A levels but certainly a BTEC route would work.

We’re going to try and speak to them. She wants to do 2 Btecs and English a level. We’ll see if we can convince them to let her do that. Thanks for your comments!

I wouldn’t have thought English A-level is realistic with those grades

My son failed maths got a D (still this way in our part of Wales). He is doing his resit in November and was still able to do his course which is equivalent to three A levels. I would speak to them again.

If she does end up having to do the transition year maybe try and help her see it as an opportunity to regain some confidence and seeing what she's really capable of without the horrible stuff from last year. A sort of gap year? Realise not the best year for part time work but perhaps some experience?

I would second Gal and say that English A Level will be really tough with those grades, so their push for the transition programme may also be them wanting to see whether she’s actually capable of it - they don’t want to set students up to fail and a although they’ve got the info from you about how her mocks were affected, they have to work from the actual results they’ve got on paper.

She wouldn;t be able to do English A level without at least a 6 in English but at ds's college as long as she had at least 4/5 Grade 4's she'd be able to do a Level 3 Btec alongside maths resit.