I am a teacher. I have a year 9 form who are currently picking their options (the deadline is some time next week) and I am supposed to be offering guidance about this (based on a 10 minute "training" on careers guidance, ha!!). I have been given a list of pupils who "should" be doing the Ebacc.
I just don't understand why the kids should care about having this particular combination of subjects. The high-flyers academically have mostly chosen to do those subjects anyway and have had no need of guidance. The least academically able are advised into more vocational/practical subjects anyway. The difficulty I'm having is whith the middlish kids, whose current levels predict that they will probably get 5 A*-C grades but will have to work really hard for them. They are most likely to go to college for sixth form to do something other than A-levels, and start working without university.
Why would these kids care about an Ebacc? What's in it for them? Why choose to do French (and they all seem happy to do either History or Geography, it's French that's their sticking point) where they will have to work really hard to get a C (and otherwise it's a bit pointless doing it anyway) if that means they ahve to drop a subject that they would enjoy more and be better at? I really don't have any answers to this, but I'm being pressured to persuade them to do the Ebacc because that will look better for the school on the league tables.
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Ebacc - why should the kids care?
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