Year 12 Study Guide

Imagine, you are flipping through the course selection booklet to decide on your year 11 courses. You see feel like carrying on with your 2 option subjects that you did in year 10, in the booklet, you see another course that you would really like to do. You are about to write it down on your form when you notice that you already have 6 subjects, English, Maths, Science, PE, Option 1 and Option 2. You see that there is an option of doing a 7th subject and doing PE as a flexi course with permission from the dean. So you go to the dean to ask them if you can do flexi PE. However, the dean turns you down simply because you didn’t get enough “5’s” on your report. How is this fair? How many of you people struggled with course selection? PE as you

PE is a subject that many people love, it is often called as I have heard “easy credits”. There is no doubt that PE is a subject that the vast majority of people have a strong passion for. But the question is, how many of these people carry on with PE in year 12? I decided to stalk our year 12’s using schoology. Anyway, I found out that out of all the year 12’s, only 35% of the year group do PE in the form of either sports studies, outdoor education, health studies, Phys Ed, or advanced Phys Ed. This shows that not a lot of students from their year groups chose to do PE in year 12. Therefore PE should not be a compulsory subject. By now you have probably realised that I have not been complaining about Maths, Science and English being compulsory. But I have a reason for this. I decided to do a little bit more stalking, and find out how many year 12’s are doing a maths course, and maths isn’t even compulsory in year 12. I found out that around 80% of the year 12 students are doing a maths course! Therefore, I can safely say that while PE shouldn’t be compulsory, it is still fine to keep maths compulsory, as more students want to carry on with maths even when its not compulsory than the students that want to carry on with PE, so sorry if there are any of you who dread maths but my statistical evidence says otherwise. These statistics show that not a lot of students chose to carry on with PE. Therefore it is probably a bad

I mean what are its benefits? PE is not an academic subject, not a lot of people consider a career in PE, PE is considered as something that is done for leisure rather than something that we do cause we have to. If I were to ask the dean why we have PE compulsory in year 11, I bet that he would say “We want our students to be healthy”. If that is the case, why is PE only compulsory in year 11, why not year 12? Year 13? If that really is the reason that this school has PE compulsory, I think that it is a bad idea for us to sacrifice taking a subject that we actually want to take, just to get healthy. I’m sure most people walk to school. That is an example of getting healthy! I’m sure that when most people have family or friends over at their house, they play a sport or go for a walk together. In fact, simply taking a short 10 minute walk outside can improve your health, which I’m sure everybody does at least once a day. This shows that for most people, it is a waste of time having compulsory PE as we all get a little bit of exercise each week. The school has been telling us that we need to start making our own choices. If that is the case the school shouldn’t be controlling our fitness by having compulsory PE , we should understand ourselves that we have to keep ourselves healthy by doing any form of exercise in our own