Looking for opinions, experiences and thoughts on choosing, the subjects themselves and which combinations are good or even which are don’t go there combinations.
Narrowed down to the following and he has to choose 3. (Deadline is 17th April so we have a few weeks).
GCSE Music
GCSE DT: Product Design
BTEC Engineering
GCSE Food and Nutrition
GCSE History^
GCSE Geography^
Will also do:
English x2, Maths, Science x2/3*.
^Must choose at least one of these, he’s leaning towards geography.
*Top set will do triple, the rest do double and it’s decided by the Y9 exams (he’s bounced between set 1 and 2 throughout Y8 and Y9 so it could go either way).
I don’t really mind what he does.
He’s really into music, spends a lot of time each day playing the piano or tinkering with it. Has achieved; grade 6 piano, grade 5 theory and grade 2 composition. All of which he asked to do and wanted to do. He pushes himself in his music.
He’s also into fixing things. He’s always tinkered with cars, some electronics and things around the house. He wanted to try and have a go at fixing pianos so we bought him a cheep £40 battered one that we found in a charity shop about 2 years ago and he’s half way through restoring it.
He likes food at school because he gets to make a lot of different foods he isn’t exposed to at home. Due to several different allergies in the house we have a very restrictive diet so I like the idea of him continuing with food.
He likes geography because he just does. He liked outdoors education which he’s done in Y8 and Y9 so geography seems to be the closest.
Histories on the list because he seems to think he should do history because he likes music and he likes music history.
Unfortunately, he can’t do them all and we need to figure out how to get it down to only 3.