(07 Dec 2014, 9:57 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote I'll be starting my GCSEs next year, and yet to pick my options. I need one language (Park View is a languages college) and a humanity before 2 of my own choice.
As aureolin said, a lot of schools get 25 hours a week and mine is one of them. Next year, I'll get 4 hours of English, 4 hours of Maths, 6 hours of Science (kill me now!), 1 hour of R.E. and 2 hours of P.E., all mandatory! We get 4 options, and get 2 hours of each a week, and that adds up the total teaching hours.
Personally, I think we should get to pick 1 more, and get 2 hours less of Science. However, some will argue because we get all 3 sciences and need 2 hours of each.
Just my opinion, but extended hours would just lower 'moral' for everyone. If my year group got pulled into assembly and told next year as a new scheme we would be given extended schooldays.....there would be an uprising, and all the teachers would be shot in the yard! Just telling the truth, lol.
I left School 5 Years ago and I did 3 Hours of English/Maths and Science back then, to be honest I dont think you should forced into doing Science unless your planning working in a Laboratory or something, as its an otherwise pointless Subject and often didnt attend because of that reason, and because the class I was in was full of wannabe chavs who disrupted the lesson all the time so I never learnt anything not that I was interested anyway.
I also did Core P.E. rather than GCSE, Which meant I did 4 Hours Exercise per week, Art again was 4 Hours, then ICT and History for 3 Hours, then I had Contempary Issues which was based on Politics for 1 Hour a week, and there was an Option of a Lesson for 2 Hours a Week where you could use the time to catch up on any Subject you had Coursework, I often used to play games or go on facebook, or I simply no showed and went home early as it was the last lesson of the day, obviously I would show my face, say I was in and going into this lesson i.e. Art to do Coursework before buggering off home, and finally we had Tutorial with our Tutor for an Hour a week, used to love Wednesday Mornings, Double English followed by Tutorial with my Unbelievably Fit Tutor.