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  • Our School
    • Students’ Welcome
    • Headteacher’s Welcome
    • About Us
    • Admissions Policy
    • Being Welsh and the Welsh Language
    • Equal Opportunities
    • The School Day
    • Rights Respecting School
    • Committee Structure
    • Eco Schools
    • Lunchtime Arrangements
    • Healthy Schools
    • Term dates 2018/19
    • PARS Access
    • Insight Access
    • INSIGHT Acceptable Usage Policy
    • INSIGHT – Parent/Carer User Guide
    • The Speech and Language Facility (STF)
    • Sporting Activities
    • 2017 – 18 EIG PDG
    • Unicef UK Gold Award
    • Meal Choices
    • Maximising Success – Revision websites
    • Extracurricular activities
  • Student Parliament
    • Student Parliament
    • Student Parliament
    • Student Parliament Photos
    • Careers Guidance and Advice
    • Our Futures
    • The Exchange Counselling Service
  • Parents
    • Consultation on School Day
    • Governors’ Annual Report to Parents/Carers July 2018
    • Anti-bullying policy
    • Meal Choices
    • Grievance Policy
    • Use of Physical Intervention/ Challenging Behaviour Policy
    • KS3 (Y7, Y8 & Y9) National Reading and Numeracy Tests
    • School Uniform
    • Uniform Guidance
    • Admissions Policy
    • Privacy Notice
    • Procedure for Welcoming EAL/AS Pupils
    • Charges and Remissions Policy
    • Whole School Achievement and Sanction Policy
    • Child Protection – Safeguarding Our Students
    • Extracurricular activities
    • Complaints Procedure
    • Home Learning Policy
    • More Able and Talented Pupils (MAAT)
    • Organising Our Students for Learning
    • Religious Education
    • Sporting Activities
    • Term dates 2018/19
    • Students with Disabilities
    • Supporting Students with Additional Learning Needs
    • The School Day
    • Health and Safety
    • Insight Access – Coming Soon
    • Reporting
    • eSafety
    • Admissions Process
    • The Exchange Counselling Service
    • Maximising Success – Revision websites
  • Well-being
    • School Policy for Ethnic Minority Learners
    • Child Protection – Safeguarding Our Students
    • Careers Guidance and Advice
    • Safeguarding and Protecting You – We Care
    • Health and Safety
    • Sex Education and Relationships Policy
    • Extracurricular activities
  • Community
    • Community Links
    • Ethnic Minority Achievement Unit (EMAU)
    • Welsh Baccalaureate
      • What is the Welsh Baccalaureate?
      • Individual Project
      • Essential and Employability Skills
      • Enterprise and Employability Challenge
      • Global Citizenship Challenge
      • Community Challenge
  • Contact
  • Pentrehafod Sports and Leisure Facilities
    • Swimming Activities
  • Y Pentref (newsletter)
    • Y Pentref (Summer Term 2018)
  • Policies
    • Anti-bullying/Respect Policy
    • Attendance Policy
  • Consultation on School Day

What is the Welsh Baccalaureate?

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  • What is the Welsh Baccalaureate?

The Welsh Bacc is a course that has been specifically designed in collaboration with employers, further education and higher education providers, to provide the learners with the skills they need in all areas of their future lives.

Through the Welsh Baccalaureate learners will raise their skills levels and confidence, enabling and empowering them to take their place as responsible and active citizens within a diverse society. Alongside and through the development of skills, the Welsh Baccalaureate provides learners with the opportunity to develop their knowledge and understanding of society, the community in which they live and an awareness of global issues, events and perspectives.

In order to achieve the Welsh Bacc the learners must complete the Skills Challenge Certificate as well as a range of supporting qualifications.

Welsh Bacc

Learners will complete the three challenges (Enterprise & Employability, Global and Community) during year 10 and the Individual Project in year 11. The pupils will be prepared for the challenges and project through a teaching and learning programme which targets the skills that the pupils need to demonstrate during their controlled assessment. The combined outcomes of the four components will determine whether the Skills Challenge Certificate is awarded at National or Foundation level.

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There are no examinations for the Welsh Baccalaureate Skills Challenge Certificate. Assessment is completely through controlled assessment, which will be undertaken throughout the whole of year 10 and 11. As a result of this, pupils who are absent from school are at risk of seriously reducing the marks they could achieve in the challenge they are undertaking at that time. The challenges and project are internally marked and externally moderated by WJEC.

The Supporting Qualifications include two mandatory GCSEs of English Language or Welsh Language together with Mathematics-Numeracy or Mathematics. A further three GCSEs are also required, of which two may be of equivalent qualifications. To meet the National Welsh Baccalaureate requirements all five of the Supporting Qualifications must be achieved at grades A*-C. Similarly, for the Foundation Welsh Baccalaureate the Supporting Qualifications must be achieved at grades A*-G.

Welsh Baccalaureate

  • What is the Welsh Baccalaureate?
  • Essential and Employability Skills
  • Individual Project
  • Enterprise and Employability Challenge
  • Global Citizenship Challenge
  • Community Challenge
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