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Choosing the right subjects for GCSE House Life

NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES

Your son/daughter will make initial GCSE choices in February so that next year’s timetable can be blocked Newspapers and magazines are delivered regularly—they are for everyone to enjoy. Please do not and staffing planned. They will confirm their choices at remove them from the Well or cut bits out of them! the end of this term. There is the opportunity to add any supporting comments on both initial and final OCCASIONAL BOARDING option-choice forms if you feel particularly strongly • about the choices that have been made. Once the final If you are a day pupil and you need to stay overnight, your parents/guardian should ask us if it is options form is submitted, the allocation of options ok to do so at least 24hrs in advance. will be made based on the information supplied on • the form.If you are a day pupil and there are some spare beds in the house, then you may find that you are lucky enough to keep the same bed each time you stay. However, day pupils are not entitled to

Once choices have been made, the College reserves their own bed and you may have to use any bed which is available. the right to withdraw any courses for which there is • insufficient demand. You need to bring your own duvet or sleeping bag, pillows and sheets.

We try to accommodate all subject choices within • the prescribed framework. However, subjects are You should not leave your bedding on the bed on nights when you are not staying as the bed may sometimes oversubscribed and availability of staffing be needed by someone else. prevents additional classes. If this is the case, we will contact you to discuss alternatives. ‘PHONES

On the following pages, you will find more information about each subject, as well as some useful advice from Mobiles the Head of Careers and Higher Education, Sharon Please note the college mobile phone policy relevant to all pupils. There is a ban on mobile phones Allmark. These will help you when weighing up the outside the boarding houses from 8.30am-6.30pm unless being used with permission of a member various factors involved in making the most of staff, (3rd Form only after the Autumn half term). A mobile must be on ’silent’ during the school appropriate choices. day and mustn’t disrupt lessons. If it does ring, your mobile will be confiscated and passed on to your houseparent. Sometimes you will be allowed to use your phone to record prep or use during lessons, but only if the teacher says you can. A simple way of noting the rule is that if a member of staff sees it or hears it, you’ll lose it for 24 hours. Stephen Badger Mobiles/devices should not be used after ‘lights out’. 3rd Formers are initially not allowed ‘mobiles in Deputy Head (Teaching & Learning) school, but thereafter they have to hand their mobile phones and other devices to the staff member on duty before lights out. 4th & 5th Form boys will also have their mobile phones and devices collected before lights out. You can take your mobile on off-site trips and to away sports fixtures.