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Did your school make you do an ebacc for gcse?

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Original post by nikkiblonsky
so some schools care more about their own benefit then what students want to pursue?

Yep! It's one of the measures inthe DfE performance tables ...
Original post by Muttley79
It's a measure for the SCHOOL - there is no certificate for the Ebacc and universties don't care about it.

How do the schools benefit from it exactly? Just curious
Original post by nikkiblonsky
so some schools care more about their own benefit then what students want to pursue?

Apparently :frown:
In my school you could only do RE as a gcse option if you were top set
- you could only do gcse PE if you qere sporty (which kinda makes sense because you had to do a certain number of sports to write about in the coursework/complete a specific no. of hours).
Original post by Muttley79
Yep! It's one of the measures inthe DfE performance tables ...

Wait what even is dfe. Im supposed to be doing it and my school said that we have to do volunteering and some other parts and at the end we go on a trip but why is the ebacc measured as well?
Original post by something_orphic
How do the schools benefit from it exactly? Just curious

It's a measure on the DfE performance tables .... if you look up a school here: https://www.gov.uk/school-performance-tables you will see.

It's one of the things Ofsted might look at.
but the ebacc doesnt make sense. If students are forced into these subjects then they're gonna be mor elikely to resent them and then do badly in them and that doesnt look good for the school
Yep
Original post by Muttley79
It's a measure on the DfE performance tables .... if you look up a school here: https://www.gov.uk/school-performance-tables you will see.

It's one of the things Ofsted might look at.

damn I looked up my school and one the things was called Ebacc average score
Yes my school made us do it, my year were required to take a language & do GCSE PE no matter how cr@p at sports you were, they dropped it being compulsory the following year because too many people were getting poor grades or failing PE and languages making it look worse for them
Original post by Fresher18
Yes my school made us do it, my year were required to take a language & do GCSE PE no matter how cr@p at sports you were, they dropped it being compulsory the following year because too many people were getting poor grades or failing PE and languages making it look worse for them

damn thats a good example of the point I made above lmao
Original post by Fresher18
Yes my school made us do it, my year were required to take a language & do GCSE PE no matter how cr@p at sports you were, they dropped it being compulsory the following year because too many people were getting poor grades or failing PE and languages making it look worse for them

PE isn't part of the Ebacc so that is strange ...
Original post by nikkiblonsky
but the ebacc doesnt make sense. If students are forced into these subjects then they're gonna be mor elikely to resent them and then do badly in them and that doesnt look good for the school


I agree - that's why we don't enforce it ...
Original post by Muttley79
PE isn't part of the Ebacc so that is strange ...

I think some schools just make subjects comulsory like my school and rs(tho thats a humanities so idk we had to take alongside another humanities)
Original post by nikkiblonsky
I think some schools just make subjects comulsory like my school and rs(tho thats a humanities so idk we had to take alongside another humanities)

The EBacc is:
* English language and literature
* maths
* the sciences
* geography or history
* a language


It is 'supposed' to keep your option open but what about creative careers? I value music and creatve subjects too - not this narrow Ebacc.
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Original post by Muttley79
PE isn't part of the Ebacc so that is strange ...

They classed themselves as a 'Specialist Sport and Science college' so they made everyone do it. Still to this day don't know what made them a specialist in sports as the facilities were pretty basic and nothing special
Original post by Muttley79
The EBacc is:
* English language and literature
* maths
* the sciences
* geography or history
* a language


It is 'supposed' to keep your option open but what about creative careers? I value music and creatve subjects too - not this narrow Ebacc.


same creative subjects are so much more engaging and interesting and this is just imo but I feel like you can pick up more from them than other subjects where u just sit and listen for and hour. Oh so I guess rs isnt part of the ebacc and my school just made us choose it.......oof
Original post by Fresher18
They classed themselves as a 'Specialist Sport and Science college' so they made everyone do it. Still to this day don't know what made them a specialist in sports as the facilities were pretty basic and nothing special

'Spcialisms' stopped being funded many years ago [2011] and it didn't mean the school had a strength in that area anyway. Frankly it was a way of getting more funding and the school I was in at the time had poor science facilties so went for Science status to improve the labs.
Original post by nikkiblonsky
same creative subjects are so much more engaging and interesting and this is just imo but I feel like you can pick up more from them than other subjects where u just sit and listen for and hour. Oh so I guess rs isnt part of the ebacc and my school just made us choose it.......oof

Teaching RS is compulsory in KS4 so many schoosl offer a GCSE ..
Original post by Muttley79
Teaching RS is compulsory in KS4 so many schoosl offer a GCSE ..

really? Oh so do most schools just offer it or do they force you to take it
No clue as to what they are never heard of them. Hasn't been mentioned in school either

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