Having just dealt with the secondary school options, open evenings, tests, tantrums and decisions I then had to do the same thing with the sixth form for my middle son. Being a clever mathematician for the past year or so we have been in discussion with his teachers and careers people guiding him towards a move into the banking world. I searched and researched courses, graduate programmes and levels of entry for universities. So confident in our choices we set off for his sixth form evening at his school, where we would go through he motions of deciding his A level courses to lead towards his ultimate banking goal. In the car on the way, out of the blue he throws in the idea that maybe he would like to try journalism.
Blind panic, stepping into the unknown we entered the school . 10 mins later, weighed down with prospectuses, brochures, leaflets and all manner of pamphlet we sat through the Head teachers, sixth form head and current sixth form student speeches. Still none the wiser we went and spoke to teachers about courses and options for further study and after much tooing and froing we were still none the wiser.
However we got some great advise from the Head of English who said that if you take 2 core subjects and one other A level, your options to study at University will be much broader. So he picked English Lit, Maths and Government and Politics. Now we just have to sweat it out for his GCSE results and hope he doesnt decide to take up farming in the meantime.
If you are floundering in the world of sixth form here is some good advise http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/wiki/Starting_Sixth_Form
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