Your future starts here!

Year 8 and Year 9 Options Evening on Thursday 19th January 2012, between 4.30pm and 6.30pm

Over the next few years, you will be making decisions which will shape the rest of your education here at Washwood Heath Technology College and probably the rest of your life in the world of work.
Making sure that the decisions you make are right for you is vitally important.
This is an exciting time: up until now in Key stage 3 (Years 7-8) you have studied the same subjects, with a small amount of choice, but now things are going to change. You are moving to the next stage of your education: Key Stage 4. In Years 9, 10 and year 11 there will still be subjects that you will ALL study, where there is no element of choice.

We call these subjects CORE subjects: English, Maths, Science and PE. On Dimension Days, you will all study other elements of the curriculum: RE, PHSEE, Careers and Citizenship.
Each year, you can choose two courses. These can be either GCSEs or BTECs.

After each year, you choose again. If you have done a BTEC, you can choose to study it for another year and move it from the equivalent of one GCSE (BTEC Certificate) into the equivalent of two (BTEC Diploma). You can choose completely new courses each year if you wish. Where appropriate, some students choose to start A Level or Level 3 BTEC in Year 11.

BTECs are offered at Level 2: the grades awarded are in the next section. A small number of students may be recommended to follow the Foundation Learning Tier, which provides Level 1 qualifications in preparation for moving into Level 2 in the future.

 

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