Ebacc??

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I have 6 children and number 4 is choosing her GCSE's has to be in by next Friday.
She has her heart set on doing Art,Media and Health and Social care as these will help her with her future career.

But as she is doing double science and not triple she has to do one of the following
History
Geography
French
German
Computing

I am rather annoyed with this,I never had this with my older 3 they could choose what ever they wanted.

She has problems with spelling(dyslexic only with her spelling) and gets upset and feels dumb when she gets spelling wrong, this is why I feel more creative GCSE's than Essay writing based ones will be better for her.

Is there anyway of her not having to do this waste of time EBACC?

My oldest didn't do it and got excellent GCSE's and A-Levels,my 2nd didn't do it and is now doing well in his AS-Levels and my 3rd is now doing her GCSE's.she ended up dropping History due to the amount of essay writing she could't cope.

Any advice would be great,thanks.xx

The Government are moving away from judging schools on 5A-C grades including Maths and English because that puts a huge focus on borderline kids and encourages schools to give less support/weaker teaching to top end kids or weak kids (because turning a B into an A or G into an E makes no difference to the 5A-C inc EM figure).

he new measures are based around the best 8 subjects and are called Attainment8 (the average grade of a students best 8 subjects) and Progress8 (how well they have done compared to students, nationally, with the same sort of KS2 results).

The only snag is the "best 8" must include at least 3 from the sciences, Computer Science, Geog, History, Languages. If they don't do 3 from this list then the school results will be weakened which can impact upon funding, OFSTED and the like.

To combat this schools are increasingly ensuring that all (well as many as possible) students are doing at least 3 subjects from the list. Indeed this is exactly what the Government wanted to happen - increase the uptake of 'traditional, academic subjects'.

We have done likewise to be honest but have an alternative vocational course for students for whom those subjects are clearly not suited.