GCSE Choices Booklet 2015 2
GCSE Choices Booklet
September 2015
R ainham
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G rammar
S chool
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Choices for GCSE, Years 10 - 11
Moving into Year 10, from Key Stage 3 to Key Stage 4, is an important stage in your educational career. This is the first time you will have had the opportunity to exercise some choice over your programme of study. Before this, everything you have studied will have been determined for you. Now you will have a chance to select some elements in your programme that are of real interest to you.
Having such choices can be both exhilarating and daunting. It is important that you give careful thought to your choices and that you take notice of the advice you are given.
There a number of ways in which you will receive advice and information. Firstly, you will have this booklet that contains an outline of all courses, including the optional ones. Secondly, there will be special lessons at school. Thirdly, there will be a parents’ information and consultation evening on
Thursday 29 January 2015. Fourthly, there are careers staff who can help you. It is also important that you should seek advice if you have a question you need to ask.
So think carefully, talk to people who can help you, read this booklet carefully, and enjoy choosing your option subjects for next year. You will need to make your final choices on the morning of
Thursday 5 February 2015.
Career Ideas
Choosing a career takes a long time: it is a process which we began to help you with in Years 8 and 9 and will probably continue until you are 20 or 21 at least. In Years 10 and 11 we expect students to research different careers and to get a better idea of the opportunities available. We have lots of books, DVD’s and computer resources in our careers room, which is open to all students most lunch times and after school. Please use the room!
Few students know exactly what they want to do as a career in Year 10 or 11 and many will change their minds over the next 4 or
September 2015
R ainham
M ark
G rammar
S chool
O:\Booklets\GCSE Choices Booklet 2015.doc
1
Choices for GCSE, Years 10 - 11
Moving into Year 10, from Key Stage 3 to Key Stage 4, is an important stage in your educational career. This is the first time you will have had the opportunity to exercise some choice over your programme of study. Before this, everything you have studied will have been determined for you. Now you will have a chance to select some elements in your programme that are of real interest to you.
Having such choices can be both exhilarating and daunting. It is important that you give careful thought to your choices and that you take notice of the advice you are given.
There a number of ways in which you will receive advice and information. Firstly, you will have this booklet that contains an outline of all courses, including the optional ones. Secondly, there will be special lessons at school. Thirdly, there will be a parents’ information and consultation evening on
Thursday 29 January 2015. Fourthly, there are careers staff who can help you. It is also important that you should seek advice if you have a question you need to ask.
So think carefully, talk to people who can help you, read this booklet carefully, and enjoy choosing your option subjects for next year. You will need to make your final choices on the morning of
Thursday 5 February 2015.
Career Ideas
Choosing a career takes a long time: it is a process which we began to help you with in Years 8 and 9 and will probably continue until you are 20 or 21 at least. In Years 10 and 11 we expect students to research different careers and to get a better idea of the opportunities available. We have lots of books, DVD’s and computer resources in our careers room, which is open to all students most lunch times and after school. Please use the room!
Few students know exactly what they want to do as a career in Year 10 or 11 and many will change their minds over the next 4 or