22 January 2016
Dear Student
Welcome to North Bromsgrove's Guided Pathways process, designed to help you choose your
option subjects for years 10 and 11.
Accompanying this letter you will find our Guided Pathways booklet, containing information about
the courses we offer and the key dates you will need to observe. Please read this information
carefully with your parent/carer, to help you make the best choices to suit your own needs and
interests. This booklet has been given to you at the same time as your report for a reason: to allow
you to use the information teachers have given about your progress to support your decision making.
As you will see from the booklet, we offer three routes based on specific criteria. You have been
placed into the Gateway Pathway. The subjects available to you are on the reverse of this letter
and in the booklet.
Please read the other side of this letter carefully before completing and returning it to your tutor
before the deadline stated. We also offer you the opportunity to switch colleges at this point to be
part of a college that might be more closely linked to the option choices you have made. Further
information about the college system can be found in the booklet.
Whilst we will do our absolute best to try and accommodate your preferences in terms of subjects
and college, due to fluctuations in demand and staffing capacity we may not always be able to give
you all of your first choices. To this end we also ask you to choose reserve subjects and a reserve
college.
More detailed information will be provided during the Guided Pathways Evening on Tuesday 26
January and senior staff will be on hand to answer any queries you might have. Alternatively, please
contact me by email at mho@northbromsgrove.worcs.sch.uk
Yours sincerely
M. HORTON
FACULTY LEADER – ENGLISH AND SENIOR TEACHER - OPTIONS
orth Bromsgrove High School
KS4 Guided Pathways 2016 – Advisory Evening – Tuesday 26 January 2016
GATEWAY Route
Student Name
Tutor Group
Please select four subjects and four reserve choices from the list below
Block A
Block B
Block C
Block D
Film Studies
Art & Design
Food and Nutrition
Art & Design
French
Food and Nutrition
French
BTEC Business and
Enterprise
Geography
History
History
Drama
Resistant Materials
PE
Music
Geography
Religion & Society
BTEC IT
Resistant Materials
Textiles
Sociology
Option choice 1
Option choice 2
Option choice 3
Option choice 4
Subject Leader's
Signature
Subject Leader's
Signature
Subject Leader's
Signature
Subject Leader's
Signature
Reserve choice 1
Reserve choice 2
Reserve choice 3
Reserve choice 4
Subject Leader's
Signature
Subject Leader's
Signature
Subject Leader's
Signature
Subject Leader's
Signature
Please select a FIRST(1st) and RESERVE(2nd) College choice
BLAKE
RUTHERFORD
SMITH
THORNE
In signing this form, subject leaders are agreeing that this student meets the basic criteria (has the skills and
abilities) to be able to study the subject successfully at a standard which reflects his/her target.
Please complete and hand this form in to your tutor by Friday 5 February 2016
Student's signature
Parent's signature
Tutor's signature