KS4 Options - Curriculum Choices
Welcome to the Year 9 Curriculum Choices Process for 2025!
Tuesday 28th January 2025 - KS4 Curriculum Choices Student Assembly: Students will be introduced to the Years 10 and 11 curriculum offer at ALNS.
6th February 2025 - Curriculum Evening: The evening will start with a talk about the Key Stage 4 curriculum that will be on offer to your child in Years 10 and 11. Whilst many subjects remain compulsory at Key Stage 4, there is the opportunity for your child to choose subjects that they would like to study as well. The system for making those choices will also be explained and the Key Stage 4 Curriculum Booklet will be distributed to parents during the evening.
Friday 7th February 2025: Electronic form link sent to parent by email.
Friday 7th February 2025 - Careers and Aspirations Personal Development Day: Students will be looking at careers and options for their future during this day in addition they will also experience some taster sessions in a range of different option subjects to give students a better understanding of the new subjects available to them.
27th February 2025 - Mentoring Day: A chance for parents, students and the tutor to discuss what sort of subjects best suit the student’s interests and what they want to do in the future. We have also invited representatives from local Colleges, Universities and Apprenticeship providers so there will be opportunities to visit their stalls and discuss how choices made now may affect future pathways, too.
10th March 2025: Deadline for submission of the online form
Introduction
This is a very important and exciting time as students will shortly be making choices about the subjects that they wish to study next year. Picking the right combination of subjects is not easy. In some circumstances compromises must be made although we try our best to give students the subjects they want to study.
The aim of our Key Stage 4 curriculum is to provide students with the curriculum they need to enable them to be both successful and fully prepared for the next stage of their education, employment, or training. We hope this page will provide lots of information about each subject and links to possible future careers.
The Curriculum Process
First, have a read through the below documents/pages to help you get some ideas as to where you would like to go.
Your Options
Learn more about all the subjects on offer!
Decision Time
Once you’ve made up your mind, read through the pathway booklet and understand the restrictions as to what subjects you can and cannot take together, click the button below to submit your options choices!
Note that once you submit the form, your choices are final and cannot be changed except in exceptional circumstances
You should also understand that whilst we try our very best to get everyone into their first choices, it is not always possible and you may end up with one of your other choices.
Purple Pathway
The Purple Pathway provision is our traditional academic pathway. Students study the Core subjects (including Double Award Science) a Language, a Creativity* subject and 2 further choices from the available options and they study these over Years 10 and 11.
Green Pathway
The Green Pathway provision is like the Purple Pathway, but it has a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) focus. Students study the Core subjects (including separate GCSEs in Biology, Chemistry and Physics), a Language, a Creativity* subject and 1 further choice from the available options and they study these over Years 10 and 11.
