01792 410 400
pentrehafod@hwbmail.net
Hwb | Edunet
1Pentrehafod School
    • Community Facilities
      • Welcome to the Community
      • Community Facilities
      • Pentrehafod School Alumni
      • Swimming Facilities
    • Students
      • Student Parliament
      • Online Safety
      • Your concerns
      • Pentrehafod’s Pupil Attendance & Well-Being (PAWB)
      • Careers Advice & Guidance
        • Year 11 – Future Careers
      • More Able & Talented (MAT) Pupils
      • Health & Wellbeing
      • Study Skills
      • Empathy Lab
      • Extra-Curricular Timetable Summer Term 2021
    • COVID-19
      • Behaviour Policy during COVID-19 Pandemic
      • Remote Learning – Accessing HWB & Teams (including translations)
    • Information
      • Pentrehafod Admissions Prospectus 2021-2022
      • Parents’ and carers’ guide to secondary school for children aged 11 to 14
      • Term dates 2021/22
      • Specialist Teaching Facility (STF)
      • Additional Learning Needs (ALN)
      • Policies
      • School Meals
      • Safeguarding
      • Exchange Counselling Service
      • Yr Athrofa: Professional Learning Partnership (APLP)
      • Board of Governors
    • Curriculum
      • Curriculum Policy
      • English
      • Mathematics & Numeracy
      • ICT & Digital Competency
      • Expressive Arts
      • Humanities
      • Skills, Citizenship & Wellbeing
      • Languages (Welsh & Spanish)
      • Science & Technology
      • Year 8 Options Booklet – Spring 2022
    • About Us
      • Headteacher’s Welcome
      • Students’ Welcome
      • Contact
    • Transition
      • Welcome to Transition
      • Pentrehafod Admissions Prospectus 2021-2022
      • Pentrehafod School Promo Video
      • Summer Programme
      • Getting Around (Transition)
      • Student Messages
      • FAQs (Transition)
      • Translated Admission Information Booklets
    • Examinations
      • Centre Determined Grades
    • Translations
      • Arabic (العربية)
      • Dari (دری)
      • Farsi (فارسی)
      • Kurdish Sorani (Kurdiya Soranî)
      • Mandarin (中國官話)
      • Polish (Polskie)
      • Romanian (Română)
      • Russian (русский)
      • Spanish (Español)
      • Urdu (اردو)
    • Empathy Lab
      • Empathy First Day Poem
      • Empathy Charter
    • Community Facilities
      • Welcome to the Community
      • Community Facilities
      • Pentrehafod School Alumni
      • Swimming Facilities
    • Students
      • Student Parliament
      • Online Safety
      • Your concerns
      • Pentrehafod’s Pupil Attendance & Well-Being (PAWB)
      • Careers Advice & Guidance
        • Year 11 – Future Careers
      • More Able & Talented (MAT) Pupils
      • Health & Wellbeing
      • Study Skills
      • Empathy Lab
      • Extra-Curricular Timetable Summer Term 2021
    • COVID-19
      • Behaviour Policy during COVID-19 Pandemic
      • Remote Learning – Accessing HWB & Teams (including translations)
    • Information
      • Pentrehafod Admissions Prospectus 2021-2022
      • Parents’ and carers’ guide to secondary school for children aged 11 to 14
      • Term dates 2021/22
      • Specialist Teaching Facility (STF)
      • Additional Learning Needs (ALN)
      • Policies
      • School Meals
      • Safeguarding
      • Exchange Counselling Service
      • Yr Athrofa: Professional Learning Partnership (APLP)
      • Board of Governors
    • Curriculum
      • Curriculum Policy
      • English
      • Mathematics & Numeracy
      • ICT & Digital Competency
      • Expressive Arts
      • Humanities
      • Skills, Citizenship & Wellbeing
      • Languages (Welsh & Spanish)
      • Science & Technology
      • Year 8 Options Booklet – Spring 2022
    • About Us
      • Headteacher’s Welcome
      • Students’ Welcome
      • Contact
    • Transition
      • Welcome to Transition
      • Pentrehafod Admissions Prospectus 2021-2022
      • Pentrehafod School Promo Video
      • Summer Programme
      • Getting Around (Transition)
      • Student Messages
      • FAQs (Transition)
      • Translated Admission Information Booklets
    • Examinations
      • Centre Determined Grades
    • Translations
      • Arabic (العربية)
      • Dari (دری)
      • Farsi (فارسی)
      • Kurdish Sorani (Kurdiya Soranî)
      • Mandarin (中國官話)
      • Polish (Polskie)
      • Romanian (Română)
      • Russian (русский)
      • Spanish (Español)
      • Urdu (اردو)
    • Empathy Lab
      • Empathy First Day Poem
      • Empathy Charter

    What is the Welsh Baccalaureate?

    • Home
    • 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.

    Welsh Bacc Logo

    WJEC Examination board logo

    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.

    Total Page Visits: 1449 - Today Page Visits: 3

    Welsh Baccalaureate

    • What is the Welsh Baccalaureate?
    • Essential and Employability Skills
    • Enterprise and Employability Challenge
    • Global Citizenship Challenge
    • Community Challenge
    Pentrehafod School, Pentremawr Road, Hafod, Swansea SA1 2NN
    01792 410 400
    pentrehafod@hwbmail.net
    Hwb | Edunet

    Copyright © Pentrehafod School