THE COURSE PLANNING PROCESS
It is important to note that recommended entry requirements refer, in the main, to pupils who have continued their studies progressively within that subject. For pupils who have not continued a subject from S4 to S5 or S6 other factors will be taken into consideration. These are:
Senior Phase Options Timeline
- Wednesday 15th January 2025 – Senior Phase Course Planning Evening 6:30pm online via Microsoft Teams
- S3-5 Options Interviews with PT Pastoral Care: S3 – Friday 31st January, S4 – Wednesday 5th February and S5 – Friday 7th February
- Senior Phase Parent/Carer Virtual meeting (Lewis & Mull) Thursday 6th February 3:30pm-5:30pm
- Senior Phase Parent/Carer Virtual meeting (Arran & Skye) Tuesday 11th February 4:00pm-6:00pm
- Options process completed by Friday 21st February 2025
- New timetable starts Monday 12th May.
National Qualifications
SCQF stands for the Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework which allocates a level of difficulty to each type of National Qualification.
Options Process
The school will do all it can to give you your first choice of subjects. However, it may not be possible to do so if:
Careers and Subject Choice
It is important for all pupils to develop good Career Management Skills, understanding who they are, what strengths they have gained in and out with school, who can help them with careers decisions and learn about the opportunities around them. For more information about particular career paths, subjects choices and learning opportunities, you can go to the following website:
This site provides information on careers and courses, backed up by career planning activities and online career support services. It is most important that career options are kept as open as possible by careful selection. To help with career choice, careers guidance is built into the Personal Social Education programme of all pupils.
To this end, our options format (copy at end of booklet) is carefully designed to provide, a balanced menu of subjects that can be tailored to suit all needs.
For further information on course content and career pathways, you can go to the following website:
Gateway has launched a great new National Qualifications area on Planit, just in time for the busy Options Choice season. The exciting new design and structure makes it even easier for teachers, pupils and parents to explore information on NQ subjects and courses.
Each course description includes links to potential progression routes in: school, further study, training and employment. Two new features mean that:
• pupils can link directly to the Subject/Careers lists for each subject
parents can link to the relevant Nationals in a Nutshell leaflet produced by the National Parent Forum (NPFS).
Visit the ‘Nationals’ at www.planitplus.net/Nationals to see what’s on offer.
Useful Websites
| My World of Work | www.myworldofwork.co.uk/ |
| Young Scot Website | www.youngscot.org |
| Be What You Want | www.bewhatyouwant.org.uk |
| PlanIT Plus | www.planitplus.net/Schools/OptionsS3 |
| University/College Websites | Look at individual website |
| Apprenticeships in Scotland | www.apprenticeshipsinscotland.com |
| UKCES | www.gov.uk/UKCES |
| The Student Room | www.thestudentroom.co.uk/ |
| Skills For Care | www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Home.aspx |
| CITB | www.goconstruct.org |
| ECITB | www.ecitb.org.uk |
| Summit Skills—Careers | www.summitskills.org.uk/careers |
| SEMTA | www.semta.org.uk/careers |
| Police Scotland | www.scotland.police.uk/recruitment |
| Screen Skills | wwwcreativeskillset.org |
| ISMM | www.ismprofessional.com/ |
| UCAS | www.ucas.com |
| The Tech Partnership | Careers – TTP |
| MappIT | www.mappit.org.uk |
| Adzuna | www.adzuna.co.uk |
