The Billericay School...THE YEAR 10 EXAM OPTION PREFERENCE • You will be asked to indicate which additional GCSE or Vocational subject you would like to consider studying during

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The Year 8 option process.

• These slides accompany the year 8 options curriculum booklet and the year 8 options preference form.

• (Both of these can be viewed or downloaded from the school website and parents can request that a hard

copy of the options form is posted to them)

• The process runs from the week beginning April 27th

until the deadline for submission of the form on Friday 15th May



Advice, guidance and support for parents and students available during the process.

• In addition to the curriculum booklet and these slides parents can also use the following email address to seek further guidance or clarification about the process:

[email protected]

• Mr Berry will try to reply to all queries either by email response or by phone on Tuesday 28th and Wednesday 29th April or on Monday 4th, Tuesday 5th, Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th May.

• Students may also ask questions via their form tutors on the google classroom form class from Monday 4th May

•

mailto:[email protected]



All of the key information you need

can be found in the key stage four curriculum booklet available to download or to read

on the school website



The Year 8 into 9 option process.

• During year 9 students will begin to study GCSE courses in a number of key ‘core’ subjects.

• This will give them more time to prepare for the exams that they will be sitting at the end of these courses.




There are a number of subjects that all students will continue to study in year 9

These are called the ‘core’ subjects


The Billericay SchoolAll students will study these subjects:

English Language

GCSE

English Literature

GCSE

Mathematics

GCSE

Science GCSERE

(non examination)

Core

Physical Education

(non examination)

Core

Personal

Development/Work related learning

(non examination)

Core

You may be able to choose to spend more time

doing/studying PE if you wish to

You may be able to choose to spend more time

studying RE if you wish to




There are a number of subjects that students will have some choice in what they will study

These are called the ‘option’ preferences



Students are asked to indicate four preferences:

• The GCSE Humanities preference (study this for the next 3 years)

• The GCSE Language preference (study this for the next 3 years)

• The Exam Option preference (study this for the next 2 years)

• The Curriculum Enrichment preferences ( study these for the next year only but students may choose one of them to study for a full examination course in years 10 and 11)



PREFERENCE ONETHE HUMANITIES PREFERENCE

• You must decide whether you prefer to study History or Geography at GCSE for the next three years.

• You may choose to study both if this is suitable.

• (If you choose to study two humanity subjects in years 10 and 11 you will not need to make another examination choice in January of year 9 )



PREFERENCE TWOTHE LANGUAGES PREFERENCE

• You must decide whether you prefer to study French, German or Chinese (a guided choice) at GCSE for the next three years.

• You may choose to study two languages if this is suitable.

• (If you choose to study two languages in years 10 and 11 you will not need to make another examination choice in January of year 9 )



PREFERENCES ONE AND TWOTHE DOUBLE HUMANITIES OR LANGUAGES

PREFERENCES • Any student that chooses to study either two

humanities or two languages may study both to full GCSE.

• You will still have one additional option choice this year if you choose to do this but you will not need to make another choice in year 9.

• You may choose to study double language anddouble humanity in year 9, but it will not be possible to continue with all four in years 10 and 11



PREFERENCE THREETHE YEAR 10 EXAM OPTION PREFERENCE

• You will be asked to indicate which additional GCSE or Vocational subject you would like to consider studying during years 9 and 10.

• You will be ready to sit the exam in this option subject at the end of year 10.

• You will be asked to indicate three preferences.• (In a 1,2, 3 order)• You will be allocated one of these preferences



GCSE COURSES VOCATIONAL COURSES

Drama Hospitality and Catering

Film Studies Child Development

Statistics Engineering Design

Computer Science Sports Studies

Religious Studies (Full course)

Construction and the Built Environment

Product Design or Textiles Creative i-media

PREFERENCE THREETHE EXAM OPTION PREFERENCE SUBJECTS:


The Billericay SchoolWhat will students study next year?








Product Design or textiles Creative i-media

PREFERENCE THREESome of these you will all study for some of the time










Product Design /textiles Creative i-media

Remember some of these subjects will also appear in the year 9 option choice block .



WHAT SUBJECTS ARE LIKELY TO APPEAR IN THE YEAR 10/11 OPTION BLOCK THAT STUDENTS WILL CHOOSE IN YEAR 9?

In January of year 9, you will be asked to select another subject to study in years 10 and 11 .

As a guide, the table below shows the range of options in year 9 that may be available.

Art Creative i-media

Business Studies Film Studies

Computer Science Music

Drama Product Design or textiles

Engineering Design Hair and beauty

Sport Studies Statistics



PREFERENCE FOURTHE CURRICULUM ENRICHMENT PREFERENCES

• You will select three subjects that you will continue to study during year 9 only.

• You will be asked to indicate five preferences and will be allocated three of them

• If you are choosing to study a double language or a double humanity, the language or humanity enrichment must be one of the 5 preferences that you tick (this would be 2 of the 5 if you are choosing double humanity and double language in year 9)



PREFERENCE FOUR THE CURRICULUM ENRICHMENTS.

History (You must tick this if you intend to take both History and Geography at GCSE)

Art

Language (You must tick this for Dual Language only)

Drama

DT Product Design Music

DT Textiles PE

DT Food Computing/ICT



You will only tick History as one of your 5 preferences if you are choosing to study both humanities .


Art

Language (Dual Language only) Drama


DT Textiles PE


The curriculum enrichments



You will only tick Language as one of your 5 preferences if you are choosing to study two

languages .


Art



DT Textiles PE





You will all do some PE. You may also choose it as a full course sports studies option or just as a curriculum enrichment for the next year (you would not be allocated both sport studies exam

option and PE enrichment )


Art



DT Textiles PE

DT Food Computing /ICT



The Billericay SchoolThe curriculum enrichments

You may decide to select one of these subjects to study in years 10 and 11 in the year 9 into 10 options process. You will be asked to decide this last option choice in January of year 9

History (Only tick this is you intend to take both History and Geography at GCSE)

Art



DT Textiles PE

DT Food Computing /ICT



PREFERENCE FOURTHE CURRICULUM ENRICHMENT PREFERENCE

• The three subjects you are allocated here from the five that you tick on the form will depend upon the subject allocation you make/ are given as your exam subject choice

• At the end of year 9 you will make one further examination option choice


The Billericay SchoolSome examples of completed option forms – not double language or

humanity .


The Billericay SchoolSome examples of completed option forms – not double language or

humanity .


The Billericay SchoolSome examples of completed option forms – Double humanity


The Billericay SchoolSome examples of completed option forms – Double humanity


The Billericay SchoolSome examples of completed option forms – double language


The Billericay SchoolSome examples of completed option forms – double language



Any further questions?

Please read the FAQ slides that accompany this document or email your question to:

[email protected]



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The Billericay School...THE YEAR 10 EXAM OPTION PREFERENCE • You will be asked to indicate which additional GCSE or Vocational subject you would like to consider studying during