DS had chosen DT and art; and it was only when I came across a thread on here that I realised how much workload that would mean and time consuming it would be to have two portfolios to complete and revise for other subjects (very grateful to have come across that). Anyway, he switched art to computer science. He's the sort of person who happily spends hours coding, making games and websites, so the work for C.S is easy. He found the history subtopic interesting (especially when I told him how we didn't have internet until I was into late teens and floppy disks were the way 😂).
In a way, I'm glad he finds it doable and not demanding, it will mean he can spend longer on another subject.
I understand your dd has only recently started Spanish, which probably makes it harder to judge how much she would enjoy it (compared to having studied something since y7).
Does she feel she would like to continue with a language? Or is that not something that she's too worried about?
Are there any other options that she might be able to maybe switch so that she can continue with both computer science and Spanish?
It's such a difficult choice, ds was set on Latin for so long, switched to German but eventually went with French. Also was really looking forward to food tech, but chose DT instead in the end. Humanities subjects weren't much easier 😂
As pp have said, you can do computer science at a level without having gcse, so not choosing it now wouldn't make a difference.