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Dear Parents and Students,
This website provides information for you to research and choose your Year 10 & 11 programme. A strong recommendation of UK’s top 30 leading research universities (the Russell Group) is that 8 to 10 GCSE certificates are the maximum desired number for study. Quality rather than quantity. Some students will benefit from extra support to develop their English language acquisition or develop learning skills and will be equally successful studying 5 to 8 GCSE courses. The Year 10 & 11 curriculum consists of the following components: |
Advice from Year 10 students |
1 |
Compulsory GCSEs All students learn these subjects and will gain GCSE qualifications in each subject |
English Language World Literature Maths Science Language (non-English) |
1 GCSE 1 GCSE 1 GCSE 1, 2 or 3GCSEs 1 GCSE |
2 |
Optional GCSEs Students make a single choice from each of Groups A, B and C |
Group A Individual and Societies Group B: Creativity and Design Group C: Additional option GCSE PE One further additional choice from either group A or B Dual Language option For some students, group C will be used for providing additional learning support EAP or S4S. |
1 GCSE 1 GCSE 1 CGSE |
3 |
Future-Proofing courses |
These are short courses which give students the opportunity to explore a wide range of personal interests. There is a heavy emphasis on transferable 21st Century skills development. |
These courses are not examined |
4 |
Health and Wellbeing |
These include Physical Health Education, Mindfulness and Learning 4 Life. |
These courses are not examined |
