At Meopham School we believe in providing a broad and balanced curriculum. From Year 10 onwards students have the chance to specialise in subjects that are of areas of strength and interest to them. We therefore ask students in Year 9 to choose the options that they would like to study in Key-Stage 4.

 

There will be a virtual Options Evening event on the 30th January 2025.

This will be online from 6:15pm-7:00pm. 

Further details about this event, a link to join will be shared with families prior to the evening.

 

Choosing options

The Options Booklet for each of the core and optional courses available will be shared on this page after the virtual Options Evening event.

To help them make informed choices, students will be able to take part in taster lessons, and will also have options assemblies in the coming weeks.

The form for choosing options will be made available on this page after the virtual Options Evening event.

Students and parents will be informed of the allocated courses during Term 5.

Please note that although we try our best to accommodate all student option requests, we are sometimes not able to run groups if the class sizes are prohibitively small.

In addition, for some subjects, the requirement for specialist rooming or staffing means the number of option or size of groups might be limited.

Should you have any queries regarding the options process, please contact Mr Huggens - Key-Stage 3 Raising Standards Leader: peter.huggens@swale.at

 

Option blocks 

Students will be able to choose their options from a list of subjects. We will then create option blocks that accommodate these choices.

One option must be either History or Geography. (you may choose both, if you wish). Most students will also study language option.

Although we will try our hardest to accommodate all student option requests, when you submit your final option choices you will be asked to give some reserve options. This will be used if a subject is not able to run due to prohibitively low numbers - or in the event of a subject being heavily oversubscribed, and we are unable to timetable additional groups due to rooming or staffing constraints. We will contact you and let you know if this is the case. 

In circumstances of course oversubscription we will allocate on a first-come-first-served basis.