GCSE options

[allinamuddle]

Ds is in Yr 9 at an specialist indi school. Should he have chosen his GCSE options by now or is it done in Yr 10?

The school have spoken very little about his future exams and the classes for next year and I am getting a bit worried about this now. Ds is also getting agitated as he likes to know what is happening quite a way in advance so that he can prepare himself.

My DC chose theirs in yr 8, but a lot of schools do it in yr 9.

Hmm, there's been no mention of these or any meetings planned to discuss these so far. They seem to be leaving things a bit late.

Seems very late admittedly. Can you contact your head of curriculum or head of year to ask when they're doing this?

There's no head of curriculum but I'll try the Head of Education after half-term in the hope of getting an update I guess .

normally middle Year 9

Is your ds's school a ss? ds2 was at ss and they don't have options they carry on with a broad curriculum which for him involved dropping Food tech, Art and French and keeping English, Maths, Science, Employability, Geography, History, DT and PE. He had external exams in them all save PE. He would have dropped DT given the choice - hated it with a vengeance. No-one had the choice and everyone did the same

You could try looking at the school website under ks4 curriculum or exam results to see if that tells you anything but your best bet is as SallyBear suggests contacting head of education

Yes, it is a ss. There's been no communication about dropping any subjects at all. I am just a bit concerned because we were assured that his specialist subject, ICT, could be accommodated yet there is no specialist teacher in the school.

I'm not an expert but would have thought that someone with subject expertise would be necessary to teach GCSE level work or can any teacher do it?.