GCSEs- calling teachers please

[cory]

Where do you find out what GCSE papers are on offer?

Dd's school only offers French as a modern language, but have hinted in the past that they would be happy to let her sit a Swedish GCSE (she is bilingual and we would organise tutoring if she needed it). But can you do Swedish GCSE these days? Where do you find out?

Dd is also rather keen on doing German, which again is not on offer at her school- but I assume it could be organised somehow? Again, we would arrange tutoring.

btw I see nothing daunting in doing 3 language GCSEs; I think dd would be fine.

Have a look at your exam boards web site. They'll have a list of all the subjects you can do

where do I find exam boards?

exam boards are OCR or edexcel or aqa.

google those

thanks a lot, folks, off to google!

there are more than that in exam boards.
For one- there's also WJEC

I don't think Swedish is offered at GCSE.

German is offered at AQA, WJEC, OCR and Edexcel

I should see no problem with them entering your DC for this without having taught them. We entered kids for Welsh last year that hadn't been taught it, but were fluent themselves from home.....

Hope this helps...

I came across this site while Googling:

www.abcawards.co.uk/lang.php

These are vocational awards, approved by QCA.

Thanks everybody.

I came across something called asset awards on the OCR website, they are language awards but in smaller chunks than the GCSEs. However, they only did Swedish at beginner's level, so I doubt that's worth it for dd; I might look into some qualifications actually from Sweden instead.

But I will go out today and buy a German book and start tutoring her.