DD not being allowed to do Triple Science, really wants to, anything we can do?

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We moved to York this year and DD (year 10) got a place in a school that we wanted that's supposed to be really good. She has a flight path 7 in her old school, and we were assuming stupidly I suppose she could do triple science, like she wants to.

The school is saying only flight paths 8 and 9 can do triple science. I dont see this rule written down, and other kids at the school are surprised she's not doing triple with a 7, but the school is adamant. She's gutted and we're really cross because of the effect it has on her, and because we generally think this school (which is well regarded by veeeerrrryyyyy traditional) doesn't like doing science for girls (hardly any girls doing A level science there, we now realize).

Is there anything we can try, before we look at letting her apply to another school, with all the disruption that'll involve?

I was at Grammar at the turn of the century, and those who had the aptitude and wanted to did Triple (1 or 2 classes), most did double. Keen linguists did 2 (or even 3) languages... everyone did what they were good at.

I was a bit surprised to find that Triple is the standard option at DDs Comprehensive!

I was at a grammar in the 90s and we all had to do triple sciences and two languages. I think that made sense as a requirement. I agree with the existence of double science as a thing though. I think this just gives schools more choices.

The number of girls choosing to study physics, computer science or further maths A-level continues to be far smaller than the numbers of boys.

DD is at a (single-sex) private school, and they just offer the three sciences as separate options. The girls can choose which/how many to take - though I don’t know how easy it is to take only one. They seem to get good take-up for Maths/Further Maths/Physics A levels (not sure about Computer Studies).
I would have been very happy to do Double Science at GCSE, as I suspect many more Humanities/Languages-oriented people would also have been.

At my kids' school the same number of science lessons is allocated to kids doing combined as to kids doing triple. That's despite needing to sit three papers for combined, and six for triple. So they have to move much faster through the curriculum with the kids doing triple, hence why they don't let children do triple unless they assess they can keep up with the pace. No comment on whether being on a 7 flight path would be enough at my kids' school - I don't know.

I don't know is this if applies to OP's child's school though.

Same as mine although our school do 1 intervention after school for an hour and an hour incorporated in to tutor time through out the week.

Quick correction: combined and triple both have 6 papers (2 for each science), but the triple papers are longer (1 hr 45, 100 marks, rather than 1 hr 15 mins, 70 marks).

Ah I clearly read the site wrong! Happy to be corrected.