English Baccalaureate ?

squidge60

My dd has to study this just wondered if anyone had more info on this
please.:)
I am abit bothered about overload

Caroline73_2

My 13 year old is doing the bacc. His school combine it with the GCSEs and it needs no extra work, just the right combination of GCSEs.

Oldernotwiser

squidge60 wrote: »

My dd has to study this just wondered if anyone had more info on this
please.:)
I am abit bothered about overload

Google is your friend.

http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/qualifications/englishbac/a0075975/theenglishbaccalaureate

LandyAndy

Caroline73 wrote: »

My 13 year old is doing the bacc. His school combine it with the GCSEs and it needs no extra work, just the right combination of GCSEs.

That was my understanding as well.

http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/qualifications/englishbac/a0075975/theenglishbaccalaureate

It's essentially an effort by the government to ensure pupils study a number of 'core' subjects.

The English Baccalaureate was introduced as a performance measure in the 2010 performance tables. It is not a qualification in itself. The measure recognises where pupils have secured a C grade or better across a core of academic subjects – English, mathematics, history or geography, the sciences and a language.

Ministers have confirmed that these subjects will also be used for the 2011 measure, and we expect this to also be the case until the first changes to the National Curriculum are introduced in 2013.

LandyAndy

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Google is your friend.

http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/qualifications/englishbac/a0075975/theenglishbaccalaureate

Oi! Stop pushing in:mad:.

Oldernotwiser

LandyAndy wrote: »

Oi! Stop pushing in:mad:.

Oi! I wuz ere first!:mad:

squidge60

Thanks for the quick replys shes doing exams early and the letter implies its students with high academic potential so i thought it was extra

LandyAndy

Oldernotwiser wrote: »

Oi! I wuz ere first!:mad:

You were as well:o.

Five days firster but it was five years ago.:p

And 35,000 posts for you:j. Think of all the useful stuff you could have been doing:D.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

DD will be running away screaming from that. No space for art, drama, dance, music, DT or anything else she actually likes and is good at - other than French.

squidge60

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

DD will be running away screaming from that. No space for art, drama, dance, music, DT or anything else she actually likes and is good at - other than French.

She will not be happy about that :eek:

LandyAndy

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

DD will be running away screaming from that. No space for art, drama, dance, music, DT or anything else she actually likes and is good at - other than French.

No. It is meant to ensure that pupils don't just get guided towards 'soft'subjects but are encouraged to study 'core' academic subjects as well. For most children it shouldn't be any cause for concern.

I think it is quite a good idea that schools are incentivised to encourage pupils to take more traditional subjects as well as leaving room for plenty of the more peripheral subjects.

A lot of the EB subjects are compulsory anyway.