{"id":10646,"date":"2026-02-23T15:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CAcad\/?p=10646"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:08:19","slug":"s4-and-s5-option-process-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CAcad\/2026\/02\/23\/s4-and-s5-option-process-update\/","title":{"rendered":"S4 and S5 Option Process Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\">\n<div class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"1daf9f02-8690-42eb-a0e7-124ccaf0082d\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-2\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[1px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p data-start=\"128\" data-end=\"341\">Thank you to the many pupils and parents who have already completed the online S4\/5 into S5\/6\u00a0 Preliminary Subject Availability Form. Your responses are greatly appreciated and are helping us plan effectively for next session.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"343\" data-end=\"581\">At present, there are still a number of\u00a0 pupils for whom we have not yet received a completed form. We would therefore kindly ask pupils and parents to complete the\u00a0 preliminary form as soon as possible, if you have not already done so. Please click on the link below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=oyzTzM4Wj0KVQTctawUZKbQX-vb_5tBOs5CYQN5WhzJUNkpFNDVVTks4RjBKN1RWSTNYU0ZSSEZURi4u\"> S5\/6 Preliminary Subject Availability Form\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word light markdown-new-styling\">\n<p data-start=\"583\" data-end=\"780\">As outlined in a previous post on the school website, the information gathered from this form is essential in helping the school develop a well-balanced and effective final subject options form that will be issued prior to the parents evening.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"782\" data-end=\"832\">Why completing the form promptly is important:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-start=\"835\" data-end=\"923\">Supports pupil choice \u2013 your child\u2019s interests help shape the subjects we can offer.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"835\" data-end=\"923\">Enables effective planning \u2013 early responses support accurate decisions around staffing, timetabling and class sizes.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"835\" data-end=\"923\">Improves subject availability \u2013 timely information helps ensure pupil demand is reflected as closely as possible in the final options.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"835\" data-end=\"923\">Keeps the options process on schedule \u2013 allowing the next stages to run smoothly for pupils and staff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"1299\" data-end=\"1385\">Thank you for your continued support in this important stage of your child\u2019s learning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"z-0 flex min-h-[46px] justify-start\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to the many pupils and parents who have already completed the online S4\/5 into S5\/6\u00a0 Preliminary Subject Availability Form. Your responses are greatly appreciated and are helping us plan effectively for next session. At present, there are still a number of\u00a0 pupils for whom we have not yet received a completed form. We &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CAcad\/2026\/02\/23\/s4-and-s5-option-process-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;S4 and S5 Option Process Update&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35995,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[662],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CAcad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CAcad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CAcad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CAcad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35995"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CAcad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10646"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CAcad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10652,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CAcad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646\/revisions\/10652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CAcad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CAcad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CAcad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}