Would you move for a better school?

Dunroamin

Marisco wrote: »

There's your answer there. He's the one who has to go to school and if he's happy and doing well, why move him?

He has to move schools when he starts high school - the question is which school he goes to.

Own_My_Own

Dunroamin wrote: »

Have you actually asked her whether they studied one syllabus for her first attempt at them and are now studying a different syllabus?

No, it was explained to us at the beginning of Year 10.

balletshoes

Own_My_Own wrote: »

poet123 wrote: »

Are the two mutually exclusive?

Nor will you even get an interview for many jobs without the qualifications.

With regard to the numbers of GCSE's, even at Post Grad level the points accrued there are taken account of for some courses.

A friend applied to do a PGCE and two Unis turned him down because he had insufficient points at GCSE, not A level, not the class of degree, but GCSE. So, the number sat, and subsequently the points accrued at that level can be vital.[/QUOTE

As more and more schools are now teaching CC, I can only assume they have taken this into consideration.
There has been nothing the news about large amounts of pupils not getting enough GCSE points due to taking weekly CC lessons.

our secondary school includes the competency curriculum, but its not a lesson towards any particular qualification as I understand it. Its session-led learning, in every year of the secondary school, which encourages the children to find out how they best learn in all the subjects they take, and most definitely promotes the "I can" message while exploring "how best can I achieve?"

I wouldn't imagine it would appear on any exam results, and as others have said, without the results on paper, how amazingly they interview may not come into it as they may not get an interview in the first place.

Dunroamin

Own_My_Own wrote: »

No, it was explained to us at the beginning of Year 10.

So they do one syllabus one year and then switch syllabuses for the next time round?

ETA

Sorry to keep asking, it just seems such a strange thing to do and I feel I may have misunderstood.

Own_My_Own

Dunroamin wrote: »

So they do one syllabus one year and then switch syllabuses for the next time round?

ETA

Sorry to keep asking, it just seems such a strange thing to do and I feel I may have misunderstood.

She sat controlled assessments GCSEs at the end of year 10.

If the school and child are happy with the grade they got, they can drop some lessons in that subject and take extra lessons in subjects they did not do so well in, as they already have an acceptable grade in the first subject.

They do not do as many GCSEs in her class as some other classes in her schools. But she has already got 1 BTEC and is half way through another 2.. (She has just on in from a football tournament and told me).

Only the top classes do this, the rest of the school take the lot at the end of year 11.

poet123

I hope that she is not being told that colleges view BTEC quals as worth several GCSE's because that is not correct.

Own_My_Own

poet123 wrote: »

I hope that she is not being told that colleges view BTEC quals as worth several GCSE's because that is not correct.

No she hasn't, she is staying at school to take her A Levels. They are not in subjects she really needs.

By the way, she has 25 lessons a week. By taking 12 GCSEs she would only take each subject twice. Is that all your child does ?

poet123

He has 30 lessons per week I think, and is doing an AS after school at a local sixth form college. They manage to fit it in so that they take 12 GCSE's though.

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I hate threads when someone posts that their kid has to go to a crap school and it is all a bit of a surprise. Just how is that ?

Five years before the child starts school, when you are pregnant, you know and I mean you really know and are not just guessing, that he will need to go to school one day. Barring wealth or a lottery win, we are talking about regular local schools.

So you had 5 years to move but you didn't. You had the equivalent of forever to do the research but didn't. You could have saved up some money, but didn't. And it is everyone else's fault, when it isn't.

It is a fact of life that you need to be in your chosen school's catchment area at the right time. Now that could simply mean that you have to rent a property for 6 months from around October until April. If that costs £6000 then you have around 250 week to save up, which is about £25 a week.

It isn't rocket science but if you bury your head in the sand and blow all your money on booze, fags and takeaways, then don't complain when little Jonny has to go to the crap school at the end of the road and will end up with a crap job because you couldn't be bothered to do what you had to do.

Marisco

poet123 wrote: »

OT, but Marisco does your user name mean something particular? I ask because of the other poster named marisco, if it is a random name it seems strange that someone else would have it too. Curiosity killed the cat!

Never let it be said I don't scratch an itch Many a happy time has been had here.:)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Marisco#Marisco_family