how many lessons per gcse subject does your yr10/11 do please?

[NotDonna]

Our school are starting a new timetable in September, which looks good in that it’ll increase number of lessons. I’m now wondering about other schools. Are the lessons around an hour long? How many lessons per gcse subject do they have per week (or fortnight if it’s a fortnightly time table)? Are all gcse subjects weighted the same or are maths & English more often? Just curious really.

Our school has a fortnightly timetable, 5 lessons a day, each an hour long. Lessons per fortnight are:
English x 8
Maths x 8
Science x 10 (double or triple award)
PDC x 2
PE x 2
Language x 5
Humanity x 5
Options (2) x 5 each

Ours is currently very similar but about to become 6 lessons of 55 mins. They have double games every week as well as PE - so 3 hours a week. Interesting how there’s only 10 hours for 3 sciences, quite a bit less than the allocation for language, humanity and options - especially if taking triple.

Very similar to above (I've cut and pasted most of it!):
Our school has a fortnightly timetable, 5 lessons a day, each an hour long. Lessons per fortnight are:
English x ?
Maths x ?
Combined Science x 9
RSE x 2
PE x 3
Options (4) x 5 each - triple scienxe would get the 9 lessons for combined plus these 5.

DD left 2 years ago. 50 1hour lessons per fortnight.

5hrs for each of 4 options = 20
Combined science = 10
4 hours 'flexible offer' which meant triple science +4, extra maths&English+4 or ICT 4
PE 2
That's got to 36
Remaining 14 split 2 for RE in y10 then 6&6 for English & Maths in y10, and then 7 each English & Maths y11.

So 9.5 GCSEs in total as standard, up to 10.5 if doing triple science, and if doing full RE you were down 0.5.

DC's school has a 2 week timetable.

There are 4 hours per GCSE per fortnight of lessons for most subjects (English Lang and Lit count separately so 8 hours of English)
There are 7 hours for maths.

There are 10 hours in total for combined science and 14 hours in total for triple science.

They take 10 GCSEs.

Its weekly here. 5 one hour lessons a day. English, math and English 4 lessons a week. Everything else 3 lessons per week except PE 1 lesson per week.

Year 10:
English x 5
Maths x 5
Double Science x 5
Humanity x 3
RE or Citizenship x 2 (early GCSE)
Options x 2 each
PE x 2
Infotech x 1

Year 11:
English x 6
Maths x 6
Double Science x 6
Humanity x 3
Options x 2 each
PE x 2

Lessons are 1 hour each.

Not quite sure why History/Geography get an hour more a week than other options but that's what the form says...

DC's school shifted from 6 periods of 50 minutes each to 5 periods of 1 hour each as they felt that the time for actual teaching was too short for the 50 minutes. Ds1 preferred it, said it felt less rushed. They were on a weekly time table, so 4 hours each for core subjects, 3 hours of non-core subjects. Science was therefore 1x Biology, 1 x Chemistry, 1 x Physics then the 4th lesson was a rotation, each teacher teaching an extra one of their specialist science subject. PE/Games was 1 hour a week.

@OhCrumbsWhereNow Geography and History are very content heavy, so much so that Dc's school start GCSE content after Easter of year 9 just to get through it.

That makes sense!

DD is on a 3 year GCSE pathway so picked options in Y8, but they don’t seem to start the actual syllabus until Y10. Y9 more of an overall introduction to topics.

Not sure about my dc but when I taught in a school (option subject) it was 5 x 1hr lessons a fortnight.

It seems a lot of schools do a fortnightly timetable. Does make sense. It’s interesting to see the weighting of different subjects - I’m quite surprised the sciences aren’t given more time especially if taking triple. I’m also surprised that we do 3 hours games/PE every week, I’d assumed everywhere did single lesson PE and double lesson games.

DD's school started options subjects in y10, but Science syllabus in y9 just to get it all covered.

Each subject has 4 hours here a fortnight (so each science has 4 hours each as triple science) each option is 4 hours. English is 8 as 2 subjects.

Only difference is maths has 7 hours.

Then there's PE and a couple of wellbeing sessions to make 50 a fortnight

Oh just gone back to look at PE. 2 single 1 hour sessions - no double sessions (you said pe and games- what's the difference?ll)

@LotsOfBalloons im not entirely sure but I think PE is skills and one hour lesson a week whereas Games is a double 2 hour lesson also every week, actually playing team sports - they have to travel to use pitches etc. so maybe that’s why the double session is needed. At least that’s what I think the difference is. I’ll have to ask DD.
I can see why there’s the same allocation across all subjects the extra for English given there’s Lang and Lit. Can also understand extra hours for maths given its value.

I’ve never really looked at timetabling before but 4 hours a fortnight per option isn’t that much is it?

Per fortnight:
4 for options
8 for science
7 for maths
7 for English
2 for religious studies
2 for PE
Yes it's not much for options

Weekly timetable - 6 x 55 minutes lessons per day

5 x Maths
5 x English
6 x Science (2 per science regardless of if doing single or combined)
3 x Language Option
3 x Humanity Option
3 x 2 Free Options
2 x Games

Ours seems to be exactly equal weighting for every single subject except maths. Every subject has exactly 4 hours. It's a grammar school if that makes a difference. They also start some of the work in yr 9 to fit 10 subjects in

Science (3 subjects, 3 gcse) so 12
English (2 subjects 2 gcse) so 8
Maths 7 hours.
4 options. Each 4 hours so 16 hours.
4 hours a fortnight PE (no travelling!)
2 hours wellbeing.
1 hour general Re.

50 periods per fortnight, 55-min lessons. (Indie school.)

Triple science at 4 periods each; 12
English; 7
Maths; 7
MFL; 5
3 options at 4 periods each; 12
Games; 4
PE; 2
PSHE/RE; 1

Weekly, 6 lessons of 50 mins per day 8.30-4.00
Eng 5
maths 4
Language 3
Sciences 6 (2 for each)
3 options 3 each