Peebles High School Curriculum
Course Choices
The courses you choose in PHS help create the pathway for your ambitions in the future. The curriculum is deigned to be flexible and create the right pathway for the destination you want to reach, whether through subjects, college, apprenticeships, work experience, skills development or school service. Click on the appropriate pages below for year specific information.
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Curriculum Pathways
Peebles High School faculties have created a series of maps or pathways to help understand the progression from one course to another throughout your years at school. Click on the links below to help you understand how your senior years in PHS might look. Check on the Meta-skills and Career Pathways pages too to see how the subjects you’re interested in could lead to your future career, and how you can build skills in these areas in your time at school.
- Art & Design
- BCT
- Biology
- CDT
- Chemistry
- Drama
- English
- HLS
- Maths
- Modern Languages
- Music
- PE
- Physics & Science
- RMPS
- Social Subjects
Meta-skills
Meta-skills are key skills for the workplace that everyone should look to develop in their time at school. Some may be more important than others for you to develop for your chosen career path, and the school will provide experiences and opportunities for you to develop these skills.
In S6, you can use your School Service and Wider Achievement options to use your time in the school day to develop your chosen skills, but there will be opportunities before then too. You can look at the list below for suggestions on how to develop skills in certain areas:
- Self-Management
- Focusing
- Integrity
- S5/6 Prefect Duty
- Adapting
- Initiative
- Social Intelligence
- Communicating
- Faculty Ambassadors
- Feeling
- Collaborating
- Leading
- Communicating
- Innovation
- Curiosity
- Sense-making
- Creativity
- Critical thinking
Career Pathways – Life Beyond School
- Apprenticeships
- Apprenticeships offer a great variety of ways to blend learning with the world of work. Some can be started while still at school (Foundation Apprenticeships), others you can gain qualifications while you work at SCQF Level 6 & 7 (Modern Apprenticeships) or Level 8 and beyond (Graduate Apprenticeships). Click on the link below to find out more
- Further & Higher Education
- Further Education describes any course studied at Level 6 beyond school, while Higher Education describes any course at Level 7 and above. Click on the links below to find out more
- Career Pathways
- The links below are a way for you to work backwards from the careers you are interested in to the subjects you choose in school, or forwards from the subjects that you like most to see where a career in those areas could take you
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