Welcome
Dear students
Principal, Trish Stringer
As you approach your final two years of compulsory education, you will be able to make choices about which courses you wish to pursue to GCSE. This presents you with a genuine opportunity to compile a personalised curriculum appropriate to you. In creating the range of optional subjects, we have attempted to consider every interest and enthusiasm. Students of different aptitudes and abilities should be able to create a selection of courses that fulfil their ambitions and interests.
We have ensured that the optional element of the curriculum along with the compulsory core subjects, such as English, maths and science, will enable you to follow any future career pathways. You will have already secured the equivalent of four GCSE grades in ICT before embarking on your Year 10 studies. This is an excellent achievement and one that should provide you with much confidence as you start your new courses.
The optional element of your curriculum will provide you with a wide range of subjects. Genuine interest and enthusiasm in a subject is always a sound basis from which to start the selection process. The choices are for you and your parents to make. We will always be happy to provide you with advice and guidance; but we are insistent that the choice is yours.
I do hope you find the information in the booklet helpful. If you need to seek clarification from me, staff in subject departments or from any of my senior colleagues, please do not hesitate in approaching any of us. Mr Primmett, the careers advisor at the College, is also available to help you.
I am intensely proud of your achievements in your first three years at Brooke Weston. Your excellent results in the SATs examinations at the end of Year 8, along with the GCSEs you have already secured, will, I am sure, see you achieve high levels of success in this very important phase of your studies.
Good luck
Trish Stringer
Principal