Year 8 Guided Options 2021 - Amazon AWS

Year 8
Guided Options
     2021

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the
only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is
great work. And the only way to do great work is to love
what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t
settle.”
                                                       Steve Jobs

“It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than
our abilities.”

                                                    JK Rowling

“A good curriculum serves as an invitation to the
conversation; not so each pupil parrots out the ideas of their
teachers, but so that they have enough grounding to
become free of them.”
                                             Martin Robinson

What are the things they’d never know unless we taught
them…?

Year 8
Guided Options
     2021

Key Dates
• Tues 8th Dec - Curriculum/Options Information
• Weds 20th /Thurs 21st Jan - Parent/Subject Progress
  Evening
• Mon 25th Jan – Options Interviews Week
• Thurs 4th Feb – Options Form Deadline
• April – Processing and Confirming Options
• Summer Term – Options Offer

Further Information and Support
• Options Presentations
• Tutors
• Head of Year
• Informal and formal conversations with
  subject teachers.
• SEND Team.
• Careers information (MHuggett@spexe.org)
   https://www.spexe.org/641/careers-and-
   guidance

Core Subjects - Statutory

    All students will study :
•   English Language (1 GCSE)
•   English Literature (1 GCSE)
•   Maths (1 GCSE)
•   Science (Separate 3 GCSEs)
•   RE (1 GCSE)
•   PE (non exam)

Option 1
Students must choose one of the following
options:

•   Geography
•   History
•   French
•   Spanish
•   Computing

Options 2 and 3
Students can choose any two options from the following:

      Geography               Fine Art           Maths - Statistics

         History         Food and Nutrition           Music

         French          Design Technology         Photography

        Spanish               Drama                  GCSE PE

       Computing          Graphic Design      Travel and Tourism BTEC

                                                Vocational Award in
     Digital IT BTEC       Maths - FSMQ
                                                   Engineering

Opting for MFL
(Modern Foreign Languages)
• Students can only opt for the MFL that they have been
  studying since the beginning of Year 7.
• MFL teachers will give further guidance based on
  students’ suitability to opt for MFL.
• Based on attitude to learning and motivation.
• Inform us if you have a native language or are fluent in a
  language that you may eventually want to be examined in.

Opting for Computing
• In order to opt for Computing as Option 1, there is an
  expectation that you are working at a Maths grade 6. In
  addition, Subject leaders will use their professional
  judgement and knowledge of your learning to advise and
  guide on course suitability.

• If opting for Computing/Digital IT as Option 2 or 3, staff in
  these departments will use their professional judgement
  and knowledge of your learning to advise which course is
  the most appropriate.

Pre-Option Survey
• Gives an indication of the options which students are
  considering.
• Gives teachers the opportunity to give feedback on students’
  suitability for the course based on their current attitude to
  learning and progress.
• Relevant feedback from teachers can be discussed at the options
  interviews with SLT/HoY.
• Recommendation that students should be achieving at least
  ‘Good’ in their Responsibility for Progress grades on their report.
• Deadline is Monday 14th December.

Pre-Option Survey Google Form Link

https://forms.gle/39ttwGpSutJjGCFx7

Frequently
  Asked
Questions

How is the decision made
regarding whether students
get their option choices?

Can option choices be
changed once they have
been made?

Will we receive a booklet
outlining all options?

https://stpeters.s3.amazonaws.c
om/uploads/document/Options-
Booklet-2021.pdf?t=1607330126

Do………
• Talk to parents, subject teachers, tutor,
  HoY, older students, careers.
• Read the subject details in the options
  booklet carefully and ask if you need to
  know more.
• Opt for a balanced choice of subjects to
  keep open future careers and study
  options.

Do Not………
Do not choose a subject because……..

•   a friend is opting for it.
•   of the teacher who is currently teaching you.
•   you think it is an easy choice.
•   your brother/sister chose it.
•   you think it is the right thing to do/to please
    others.