Moving to the UK year 10

[Culdesac7]

What should be done about our daughter, who is moving from the US to UK this summer and has already studied what I believe to be the math offered on GCSE? I’m just curious what I can expect from the school. Appropriate placement? Or repeating everything again? Thanks!

It is nice to have someone so enthusiastic about sending their child to school here. We paid school fees (about 20% of parents do for the last 2 years - sixth form) but plenty of children do find without that.

On the modern foreign language point most better UK state grammar and fee paying schools will prefer children to do one at least foreign language exam at age 16. It sounds like that may not be possible as she has not done one so far but she can do extra GCSEs out of school. Where we live in London plenty of children are with parents from abroad and they go to Polish or Urdu or whatever lessons at weekends and do their language out of school [ I am not a teacher so not 100% sure state schools allow that but worth checking if she really wants to study a foreign language as one of her GCSEs]

Usually the brighter children in the best schools will do about 8 - 10 GCSEs all at once at 16 and these might be
English lang
English lit
maths
2 or 3 sciences so Biology, Physics, Chemistry - 2 or 3 of those
A foreign language
History
Geography

And then in addition to those 8 or 9 may be one easier one like music or art or religious studies or drama.

Be very careful which are chosen and work back from the likely university subject and its requirements. Also you may need to consider rights to pay home fees or get a student loan for university here. I think UK parents have to have lived in the UK for 3 years before they pay that lower £9250 fee (or take it by way of student loan) rather than the higher international students fees which might be £25,000.