BRIT school academic outcomes

[fishface1979]

Hi there, my daughter is interested in the BRIT school as she would like to pursue a career in the creative arts and I just wondered what the teaching is like beyond the arts eg. do many students get good grades in subjects like Maths, English etc. I'm worried she may be opting for the creative subjects too early as she is very academically capable. They don't offer languages which she is great at but potentially she could study one or two outside of school. She does think she'd mainly like to do a creative job such as set design etc and isn't massively ambitious for instance to get all 8/9s at GCSE but she is actually more than capable of it! I am not sure if they would stream at all. She is in a highly selective school at the moment. I guess I could ask...

If she wants to do set design focus on art and tech a levels. Have a look at the drama schools that offer this eg Rose Bruford. She could go post A levels (from any school) this broadening her options

I have friends with DC in The Brit school, both in KS4 and KS5.

I take it you know the school has massively cut back on the GCSEs and A-levels it offers? At GCSE now they literally just do maths, English and science. At A level I think they offer 4 options. I'm not sure why they've done this, I guess that's for you to ask them.

Having said that though, if you look at their results, they get higher than the national average percentage for 5's in maths and English so they're clearly doing something right.

My friends with DC are there because they live and breathe their 'strand'. If they weren't there, they probably wouldn't be in a school because all they want to do is their specialist subject. I believe the school does have quite a high proportion of students who struggle with more traditional subjects (either through barriers to learning or because they're just not interested!).

One of my friend's DS was desperate to go for Yr10 but my friend felt the curriculum was too narrow and it was too much of a gamble. The compromise is that he's applying for post-16.

I think you have to be pretty driven to go to the Brit school as well as being hugely talented, obviously. If your DD is undecided about possibly wanting to get into something like set design, as Newgirls says, it may be better for her to keep her options open at this stage?

Thanks, all very good points. I wonder if the academic lessons are streamed at all due to a wide range of ability, and what the class sizes are.