Lessons

Your timetable will be given to you on your first day at Millfield, although it will often be subject to change, especially for the sixth form. This timetable will be the same for the whole academic year, unless, of course, you decide to change the subjects that you are studying.

Lessons this year are thirty- five minutes long, which is a reasonable length. If you enjoy the subject then the time flies, but if you don't like it that much then it's not too long to wait for the bell to go! Double lessons are an hour and a quarter long and the sixth form are likely to have more of them than the third, fourth and fifth form. Sometimes these are a real drag but if you've got a nice teacher they may well give you a bit of a break in the middle.

In the third, fourth and fifth years you will not have any private study periods (PS's) so every lesson within the week's timetable will be filled. In the third year you will have all your lessons with the same people, apart from maths and languages for which you will be set according to ability. At the end of the third year you will choose the four option subjects that you want to do for GCSE so in the fourth and fifth year your classes will change according to who's doing the same subjects as you.

The sixth-form requires you to choose four subjects to study at AS level in the lowers, as well as General Studies, which is compulsory. Ideally you will carry on three of these subjects to A2 level in the uppers as three A levels are required by most universities, but, to be honest just about any combination is possible at Millfield, and you may not even want to do A levels so you could do a GNVQ in Art and Design, or something like that, instead.

If you feel that you may have chosen the wrong subject(s) at the start of the 4th year or lower-sixth, then Millfield make it very easy for you to change. This is great, because it's hard to concentrate on a subject that you don't really want to be doing.