Information for students: Year 7-9

Developing skills

Transferable skills are abilities that you can use in any job. You gain lots of skills by being at school which can be transferred to the workplace. You may also develop others skill if you have a job, do some volunteer work or do any work experience.

You probably already have lots of transferable skills that you could include on your CV or Job Applications that you don’t even realise you have.

These skills could include:

• Teamwork skills - being able to work productively as part of a team
• Communication skills - being able to communicate by lots of different means
• Research and analytical skills- being able to handle data, carry out research and write reports
• Time Management- Being organised and efficient with your time
• Numeracy skills- an important skill for the world of work

All of these skills are transferable to the world of work and important to include in any CV or Job Application.

KS3 Options

During Year 9 you will be asked to choose your General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) subjects. For the first time in your school journey you will be given some choice over what you would like to study.

You already may have some ideas about what you would like to study but here are some top tips in thinking about what to choose to study at GCSE:

• Pick a subject based on your interest in that subject - this is your future
• Think about your options carefully, don’t pick a subject on the spur of the moment; carefully think about the benefits studying that subject could bring to your learning journey
• Ask your teachers for advice about what you will study in the course and how you will be assessed
• Think about how this will fit into your long term career goals
• Pick a subject you are interested in; you are the one who has to sit the exams for that subject

You will be supported through the Options process. You will be offered an Advice and Guidance Meeting with a member of staff on the Leadership Group (LG). You will also have an Options Evening, where the pathways, process and the different subject options will be explained to you.

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