Sixth Form Options Booklet

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The Process In November of the Fifths, we ask you to express a provisional interest in five subjects so Heads of Department can give you feedback, via your Tutor, on your progress and the viability of your flourishing in those subjects. The Fifth Form Trials provide further evidence in this regard. Once you have had discussions at February Parents’ Evening, you will have a further conversation with your Tutor and give them your choice of four subjects for study in the Lower Sixth. Although not completely binding, these choices represent a serious commitment. We understand that a very few boys will change their minds between now and September, but we do expect you to make a careful decision now, so that we can draw up next year’s timetable and agree a way forward which will allow you to flourish. Similarly, we do not absolutely guarantee at this stage that the particular combination of subjects you choose will be available. We do our very best to accommodate all choices, but it is not always possible to timetable a combination of subjects chosen by very few boys. You need to have your choices decided by Thursday 27th February 2025. Your Tutor will then enter your choices into the system and we will spend the following few weeks looking into the viability of, and your suitability for, those choices, before confirming them with you or discussing alternatives should that be necessary.

If you, or your parents, have any questions or queries regarding the process, then do please contact me.