Trinity school Croydon: gcse options and dropping subjects

[Wobbles21]

We are thinking about this v early but can anyone with boys in the higher years tell me what subjects become optional and when? Also what the compulsory GCSEs are?

Thanks

My DS sat GCSEs last year. He had to do maths, 2 English and 3 sciences. Whether they did double or triple was decided at the end of Y10. They then had to pick at least one language and at least one humanity. They then had to pick 2 other subjects including other languages or humanities, art, DT, music, drama, PE. I think some could add additional Greek, Latin, and further maths. But most do 10. There were some subjects that could be dropped at the end of year 2. Obviously this may have changed with the introduction of the new style exams. Most were iGCSEs, but again this may change.

Thanks . It’s one thing on the website that isn’t mentioned. We were hoping he may get to do french; Germans and Latin but not sure if this is possible.

Certainly all those are available, and theoretically would be possible in early years (can't remember, but I think DS did Latin in 2nd and 3rd form, and was doing 2 other languages at the time). I think to do all three at GCSE would need special consideration.

Hi, my son is only in second year, so no first hand experience of choosing GCSEs yet, but there is a chart in the admissions material showing the options through the years which should help? It's the Supplementary Prospectus (or something like that and is definitely in the admissions part of the school website).

I have tried to find it but just can’t. I will have to email the Director of studies I think

Pill is correct.

Look through the document on this page:
www.trinity-school.org/admissions/prospectus-supplement/

Pillarandpo - can I ask how your son found the end of year exams in first form? A lot of the material covered so far seems quite difficult and requiring quite a lot of research or thinking. Are the exams similarly difficult?

Excellent the link helped out thanks. Not sure why couldn’t find it before but all questions answered thanks

Hi Wobbles, I can't remember too much detail about the first year exams - the school struck a good balance imo between using it as an opportunity to foster good organisation/study habits while not making to big a deal of them and encouraging them to keep things in perspective. My DS found them ok - they were all done in a week, and I don't remember there being any particular surprises. Can't say I saw many of the papers, so don't know about the format of questions. Trinity gave them revision booklets for most if not all subjects, which my son used and were helpful. Hope that's useful info!