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title: "Year 9 Guided Choices"
url: "https://sirwilliamstanier.co.uk/curriculum/year-9-guided-choices"
school: "Sir William Stanier School"
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# Year 9 Guided Choices

# Building an Ambitious Curriculum

At Key Stage 4, students follow a carefully structured curriculum that provides strong academic foundations while allowing for personalisation.

Our options structure ensures:

- Academic breadth
- High expectations
- Clear progression routes
- Preparation for post-16 education and employment

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## The Core Curriculum

All students study a compulsory core programme:

- **English**
- **Mathematics**
- **Combined (Dual) Science**
- **Core Physical Education**
- **Growth** (including PSHCE and Religious Education)

This core curriculum develops essential literacy, numeracy, scientific understanding and personal development.

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## Maintaining Academic Breadth

To ensure a broad and ambitious education, all students must choose **one** of the following subjects:

- **History**
- **Geography**
- **Modern Foreign Language (MFL)**

This requirement keeps pathways open and supports progression to a wide range of post-16 and university options.

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## Personalised Option Choices

Students then choose **two additional subjects** from our wider options offer.

These subjects allow students to:

- Develop individual strengths
- Explore creative and technical disciplines
- Align choices with future aspirations

Students also select reserve options to ensure flexibility where subjects are oversubscribed.

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## Designed for Success

Our Key Stage 4 structure is designed to ensure that students:

- Follow a balanced and challenging curriculum
- Continue to build subject expertise
- Are well prepared for GCSE examinations
- Receive guidance and support throughout the process

Guided Choices is about more than selecting subjects — it is about planning a successful pathway beyond Year 11.

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### Year 9 Guided Choices

### Curriculum

- [Curriculum Vision](https://sirwilliamstanier.co.uk/curriculum/school-values-and-the-curriculum)
- [5-Year Subject Plans](https://sirwilliamstanier.co.uk/curriculum/5-year-subject-plans)
- [Assessment, Marking & Feedback](https://sirwilliamstanier.co.uk/curriculum/assessment)
- [Personal Development](https://sirwilliamstanier.co.uk/curriculum/personal-development)
- [Extra-Curricular](https://sirwilliamstanier.co.uk/curriculum/extra-curricular)
- [Careers Hub](https://sirwilliamstanier.co.uk/curriculum/careers)
- [GCSE Examinations](https://sirwilliamstanier.co.uk/curriculum/gcse-examination-information)
- [Year 9 Guided Choices](https://sirwilliamstanier.co.uk/curriculum/year-9-guided-choices)
- [Remote Learning](https://sirwilliamstanier.co.uk/curriculum/remote-learning)

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