Year 8 Curriculum Preferences for Year 9
Curriculum preferences for Year 9 (September 2020) and the pathway to making final GCSE Option choices over the next academic year for September 2021.
As a school we highly value our arts and languages provision. As a result, we are giving pupils a set of curriculum preferences for Year 9 to enable them to study these in more depth, as well as having the opportunity to choose German as a second language option. This is prior to the process of choosing GCSE Options process when pupils select their final subject choices for Year 10.
Pupils are asked to choose two subjects from each block, a first choice and a reserve, to study during Year 9. Choosing many of the subjects does not mean they cannot choose other options for their final GCSE selections, with the exception of Music and German. Pupils who are considering Music or German for GCSE would need to take these preferences in Year 9 and continue them through to Year 11. However, if they do choose either of these in Year 9 and find they would like to choose other subjects for GCSE they would be able to do so. Pupils will be allocated one of their two choices in each block.
Please choose two from each preference:
Preference 1 | Preference 2 |
Art
DT Drama Film Studies* Classics** Hospitality and catering PE |
Art DT Dance Music German Hospitality and catering PE
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- The ways in which meanings and responses are generated through film
- A contrasting, culturally diverse range of films from different national contexts
- Film as an aesthetic medium
- How films reflect the social, cultural and political contexts in which they are made
- The relationship between film and film technology over time.
- The ability to draw upon knowledge learnt in KS3 drama, music and English study.
- To enable learners to apply their knowledge and understanding of film to filmmaking or screenwriting.
**Classics
Studying Classics is an exciting tour through the ancient civilisations of Greece and Rome by learning about the art, architecture, language, literature and philosophy of the times.