<sigh> GCSE Options - dd's school are oversubscribed with Art, so she now has to choose other options and hates all on offer

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You may remember my long and boring thread on this subject some months back. Sorry - I am back again!

DD is lucky in that she is sorted with the main subjects she wants - she has been given Geography, history, triple science (she had to opt for double as an option, because she is in top set they are doing Biol, Chem and Phys GCSE which I am delighetd about).

She is dyslexic so wanted to do a very non academic subject for a fourth option. She chose art (great), however the school has had to withdraw this option. So - she has the choice of the following:

Business studies (she would hate it)
Health & social care (ditto)
Music technology BTEC (says it is all divvy boys being DJs)
Music (she can't read music, can only play guitar self taught)

As she is dyslexic I have asked if she can just NOT bother doing a GCSE in this block, and just go to teh study support area to work on her other subjects. This has been refused as the school says that she would not be adequately supervised/registered for this lesson. Fair enough I suppose. But has anyone requested this in a similar situation and had it granted?

I think it's a shame that dd has to spend x hours a week studying something which she patently will not enjoy, but ho hum.

Anyway which of the above lessons do you reckon will be the easiest, and the least rigorous. If she has to choose one of them I want it to at least be easy!

Thanks

Have you looked at H & S Care? There is a lot of written course work I think. I know a girl who took this and she hated it but we are all different!

what does she want to do in the RAF?

Penguin she wants to do air traffic control or aerospace battle management (not as glam as it sounds - been told it is sitting in a bunker looking at screens>

None would be hugely beneficial then, but the RAF look for breadth of interest and level of qualifications so I would go for the one she is likely to have the most interest in and achieve highest in. BTECs are well-regarded by them so that wouldn't make too much differene. Has she spoken to the subject teachers about the course content? Once she has I'd get her to go for the one she will struggle with least and enjoy more and make sure she is doing lots of extra-curricular/stuff outside school such as ATC,sports or something similar to make her stand out from the rest.

Thanks penguin - she is in the ATC already(and is doing some BTECs with them now I think of it).

i will show her this thread when I get in and see what she says.

She will be doing BTEC if she is in the ATC. Good luck, hope it works out ok.