The booklet sets out a broad range of exciting learning opportunities for students including GCSE options, diplomas and apprenticeships.

Copies of the booklet have been given to Year 9 students at the area’s four secondary schools  - Belvoir High, Long Field, John Ferneley and King Edward VII - to help students decide the courses they will study at Key Stage 4 (Years 10 and 11).  Students have been asked to take copies home, or they can be collected from any of the schools.

The secondary schools, and Brooksby Melton College, are working together to deliver ground-breaking opportunities as part of the local schools’ reorganisation.  This will mean there will not only be more choice, but new opportunities for students to take courses delivered by other schools in the partnership, if they wish to do so.

The options booklet gives students and their parents details about courses including GCSE business studies at John Ferneley, catering at Belvoir High, dance at Long Field and lens media at King Edward VII School.  These options will be available to students across the partnership from autumn ’09.

Each of the secondary schools will still have all of the compulsory subjects at Key Stage 4 such as English, Maths and Science and a range of options.  But students can now choose to study one of the partnership GCSE options at another school, which will be studied on Thursday afternoons with time built into the timetable for students to travel to the host school.

The booklets also include details about the engineering and creative and media diplomas delivered in partnership by Brooksby Melton College and King Edward VII School.  These can be studied at three levels by students aged 14-19 and mix learning in the classroom with practical work, including relevant work experience.

Ivan Ould, Leicestershire County Council’s Cabinet Member for the Children and Young People’s Service, said: “These are exciting times for students in Melton and the Vale of Belvoir.  I am delighted that, by working together, the schools and the college are able to offer students a wider choice of subjects to study – including the opportunity to take courses delivered by other partner schools.

“The new booklet will give students, and their parents or carers, more information about the exciting range of courses that can be studied.”

Please use the following link to view the Options Booklet