Options.

Hello again,

As I'm sure many of you have been, I've been at the choices fair, finding out interesting things about my options. It's really good to talk to them, and I think everyone pretty much knows what they're doing for options. In case you were wondering, I'm doing History Modern World, which sounds REALLY interesting and covers a lot of stuff I have no idea about but would like to know, and the whole modern world approach is a bit closer to us so there are some things affecting us today, and when I spoke to Mr. Woolley he said that we might even be covering the Iraq war, which is very influential on our modern world.

Then I'm doing Spanish, which is a great language and I think the fast moving pace of the subject will be challenging but great to study and also means that we can move on to pretty excelled spanish in a two year course, rather than what we do at the moment which kind of prolongs each thing across a few weeks. I'm also doing French because that will be benefitial and helpful, as well as again being my preferred language, and I'd like be bilingual (aside from my fluent language). The only problem was the fact that dual can only be French and German, but I really don't want to do German so I'll just take two options, which is actually ok.

And finally, Drama, which I think will be BRILLIANT. The assessments are very practical and leave everything to you; lighting, scripting etc. so you have your final devised piece. These projects are huge and people work on them for I think about a term, but they're half hour odd performances, and the one in year 11 is assessed by an external examiner, which will be very scary but will make sure we can do the best in our group performance, and ultimately the challenge will be best. Apparently, part of the mark is a theatrical assessment, where the group will see a particular musical or performance and write a evaluative essay on it, which also seems great! But that wasn't on the board so I'm not quite sure.

So, yes, those are my choices, although at the moment I am kind of starting to worry about sixth form and university, what I'll end up studying, but in fact (drama-wise, the most important one for higher level) there are courses for higher level theatrical and acting studies, so it shouldn't be bad at all. Just being this side of the school year system makes you realise the future isn't as future as you might think, if that makes sense.

Josh xx