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My dd attends a school where they take their options in year 8 to begin in year 9 (a year earlier than traditionally). This seems to be quite a popular idea now with both gs and non-selectives taking this up.
DD is only a year 7, settled into school nicely, but I can't believe this time next year she will be choosing options. Can anybody tell me their own experiences of this?
MM
DD is only a year 7, settled into school nicely, but I can't believe this time next year she will be choosing options. Can anybody tell me their own experiences of this?
MM
Intriguing - nearly 30 years ago (surely not that long...?!) our top set at GS did maths O' level early. We were also supposed to do French early, but just before the applications were due to go in we were each given a 'projected grade'. Most people were so horrified that it wasn't an 'A' that the whole group decided to do the O level at the normal time!
Some things don't seem to change...
Some things don't seem to change...
There was a letter to schools from Sue Hackman:
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/_doc/13211 ... n%2009.pdf
See annex 1
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/_doc/13211 ... n%2009.pdf
See annex 1
If you sit GCSE a year early and want to carry on the subject to A level, do you start the AS level curriculum a year earlier? Wouldn't that make it difficult to change school for Years 12/13 if there were reasons to want to do so (i.e. better choice of subjects, etc)? I'm sure one of my son's friends is facing this dilemma.