Year Eight Options 2025

At Chauncy, we offer an exciting and inspiring curriculum.

By regularly reviewing our curriculum, we ensure that it continues to meet the needs of students and prepares them well for the future.
As such, from Year Nine, you will have more choices about which subjects you will study.

You will make some choices now, ready for the start of Year Nine and some later, ready for the start of Year Ten.

Our Year 9 curriculum

In Year Nine students will study a core curriculum of English, Maths, Science, Modern Foreign Language, Geography, History, Art and Design, and Core PE.
In addition, you will follow a carousel of lessons in ICT, Enterprise, Media, Psychology, Health and Social Care and Citizenship to introduce you to some of the new subjects available at Key Stage 4.

The following table shows the Year Nine curriculum, with the number of hours per fortnight spent studying each subject:

Types of Qualification

There are two types of qualifications at Key Stage 4:

• GCSE 9 – 1
• Technical Awards

GCSEs are assessed primarily through final examinations and grades are awarded on a 9 to 1 scale. GCSEs do not usually have coursework or controlled assessments.

Technical Awards take a more practical approach and are assessed through coursework and/or controlled assessments alongside the external exam component. Technical Awards equate to GCSE grades as follows:

Level 2

Distinction* – 8.5

Distinction – 7

Merit – 5.5

Pass – 4

Level 1

Distinction – 3

Merit – 2

Pass – 1.5

Choosing your Options

You should spend time thinking and talking to your teachers and family about which subjects are the best choices for you.
Choose subjects that you enjoy, believe you can succeed in, and think about whether a subject is important for your future.
Students can talk to their teachers by e-mail and their e-mail addresses can be found here: https://new.chauncyschool.com/contacts/

Here are the option blocks for the two option subjects that you will study in Year 9:

OPTION A:

French

Spanish

OPTION B:

Drama

Music

Photography

Physical Education

Religious Education, Philosophy & Ethics

3D Design

Please click on the link below to open our online options form:

Year 9 Option Subjects

Please select ONE subject from each option box on the form. You should complete the form by Wednesday 21st May 2025.

Drama
3D Design
Modern Foreign Languages
Music
Photography
PE (GCSE)
PE (Technical Award)
RE, Philosophy and Ethics

Years 10 and 11

As you move into Year Ten, you will have the opportunity to make further choices about what you would like to study.

You will continue to study the subjects that you chose in Year Nine alongside the core curriculum of English, Maths, Science and PE.
You will then make two more choices from the following option blocks, one of which must be Geography or History.

OPTION C:

Geography

History

Art

Computing

Business Studies GCSE/Enterprise Technical Award

Health & Social Care Technical Award

Media

Psychology

OPTION D

Geography

History

The Year Ten curriculum is summarised below, with the number of hours per fortnight spent studying each subject: