DD, 17, is in Year 13, her last year of sixth form. She has autism, ADHD and anxiety and for those reasons has an EHPC. Her EHCP states as she's academic she needs to be at a mainstream school and she's been at small independents. She had to change sixth forms for the last term of Year 12 as her last sixth form were not meeting her needs by a long stretch and were awful.
She moved to her new sixth form and carried on doing her 3 A levels of English Lit, Economics and Politics. As her current school require all to do 4 A Levels in year 12, and then usually drop one, she also took up Textiles. She was doing really well with that but as she wants to read Politics and International Relations at university she dropped textiles for Year 13.
However... because she changed schools midway through A Levels she also changed exam boards, which meant she was somewhat behind. She's been struggling with focus as we haven't been able to find ADHD meds yet that help without causing awful side effects. I've just had a chat with her personal tutor about predicted grades and apparently DD is struggling with having three essay subjects and so isn't showing her potential.
It's been suggested she drop Economics as that's the one she is struggling with the most. It's the subject she's least enjoying by far. In contrast, she loved Economics GCSE and was a straight 9 student throughout for that. But she's finding the A level classes boring, particularly she's doing stuff she covered, and she's not focusing well enough. The idea by the school is if she drops that and does a subject that's not as essay based, she'll have more bandwidth for the other two.
We've been looking at universities and she's chosen her top two, which I agree with. She'll need to get AAB for those. She can achieve that for politics and English if she works hard but at the moment it's looking like she won't for Economics unless there's a big change. S. She has a good set of GCSESs: 10 GCSEs with 9 of them grade 7 and above, plus one 6.
She loved textiles and was doing really well in it, and it gave her a nice balance of doing something sensory and practical. So I'm thinking of suggesting she change from Economics to Textiles. However I'm worried that Politics, English Lit and Textiles isn't as academic and universities may be less likely to offer her a place. Thoughts?
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Textiles A level for Politics & IR degree?
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Stormer · 20/09/2022 18:18
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