another yr9 options

[bruffin]

DD would like to be a teacher, most likely working with younger children with SN. She does a lot of volunteer work with SN groups.

Her compulsory options are

maths
english language/literature
triple science
citizenship
ict
re

She then has 3 options of which she already chosen

History- because she loves the subject and is very good at it.
Italian - Wouldn't take it if she really had a choice but as she needs an MFL, she is better at Italian than French.

leaving one extra subject
would she be better to take a fun/less academic subject ie Drama (realise there is quite a lot of work involved) but has a talent for it according to her yr 7 drama teacher.
Her strengths are Maths, Humanities and English literature

She has also expressed an interest in sociology, would that be a good idea for a teacher.

I dont know if this is an option for you but we made encouraged my DS to pick cook/food tech/home economic what ever the hell they call it these days. My view was that ultimately it didn't matter if he failed the GCSE (he wont) because the skills he will learn will stay with him for life. So far after 1 1/2 terms he's has cooked and decorated a gorgeous Xmas cake, made bread from scratch, lasagne, a delicious chicken and veg pie including the pastry, jam chutney, fish cakes, oh I nearly forgot the most beautiful carrot cake ( yes I have now joined weight watchers) and many other things. Every Monday he brings home another delicious offering (great as I now often don't need to cook on Mondays) and has also shown an interest in cooking at home he will now cook dinner for us if we're home from work late he's only 15! He's reorganised my fridge and is very clued up on advertising and how its done to encourage us to spend out money. He has also done a survey of which supermarkets offer the best value and service you may be interested to know Waitrose won on both counts.
I would thoroughly recommend it and at least I know he's never going to go hungry. The only boring thing is that each week you have to provide the ingredients and I know have a cupboard of little boxes which is completely out of character!

I'd go for a fun one - she won't need any extra academic subjects on top of what she already has so she may as well make life a bit easier for herself!

I would go for what she will enjoy. Having said that, I would think that drama skills might also be useful for her the career path she is considering.

DD is doing textiles among all her highly academic ones

but has dropped RE to make room in her timetable (school gave us the opt out slip)

Thanks everyone for replying- she text me to say she is panicking as she had an assembly on options this morning. We also have an options evening tonight but that does get a bit crowded, but the drama teacher was free for a long natter last time we attended with DS.
Not sure if Cookery is really something she wants to go for, she has shown an interest in taking Drama for quite a long while now and I can see where it fits in with teaching.

As a teacher I would say Drama would be a winner. Even if all it does is give her the confidence to 'perform' in front of people

Went to the Options evening last night. I am a tinsy bit annoyed when the childcare teacher almost convinced her to take childcare.
We had an added complication as her Art teacher wants her to take the twilight g&t class, which is a art gcse after school. The other option for Art is btec during normal time table which I don't think she want to take up one of her options with.

Poor gilr seems to be getting more and more confused. They have to list an interest in 6 options in order of preference by wednesday, then the school go away and work out time tables and we have a final interview on the 8th where she will be offered the subjects that don't clash.
The more I think about it the more i like the idea of Drama for her as it will be one less exam at the end of year 11, as all her other subjects will be linear with just one exam now.

bruffin
go with the drama - it will give her confidence for other things

I got a bit grumpy with teachers wanting to grab DD for their subjects - for their grade average benefit, not for her benefit.
Art after school could be good if she has friends doing it so that it combines high standards wit not being a chore
instinct says to do GCSE rather than BTEC wherever possible with the way the political wind is blowing

Art is massively time consuming though, even when doing it in lesson time. I think doing a twighlight / afterschool option would make it even more so.
She's got a great range as it is - if she enjoys drama, then I'd let her choose that.

Thanks
She has gone with the drama
The twilight art is invitation only and they have to submit a project and have an interview to get in. Her older friends have been scaring her with the amount of work. She doesn't have to make her mind up about that for a while