Welsh Baccalaureate

WBQ Staff

WBQ Coordinator: Ionwen Spowage
Email address: ispowage@builth-hs.powys.sch.uk

Year 10 & 11 WBQ Teams:

Year 10	Year 11
Sarah Evans Penny Hourahane Laura Lewis (Cymraeg) Hilary Mcphee Judith Sharp	Sarah Evans Penny Hourahane Laura Lewis (Cymraeg) Hilary Mcphee Claire Price

Sixth Form WBQ Team:

Year 12	Year 13
Amy Griffiths Meinir Jones (Cymraeg) Penny Hourahane Hilary Mcphee Judith Sharp	Elin Non Ennis (Cymraeg) Lorraine Pedelty Esther Sargeant

Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification

The Welsh Baccalaureate is an exciting qualification for students in Wales that adds a valuable new dimension to the subjects and courses already available for 14 to 19 year old students.

It combines personal development skills with existing qualifications like AS/A levels, BTEC, NVQs and GCSEs to make one wider award that is valued by employers and universities.

The Welsh Assembly Government introduced the Welsh Baccalaureate to transform learning for young people in Wales. It gives broader experiences than traditional learning programmes, to suit the diverse needs of young people. It can be studied in English or Welsh, or a combination of the two languages.

The Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification consists of two parts:
Core- consisting of five components i.e. Key Skills, Wales, Europe and the World, Work-related Education, Personal and Social Education and the Individual Investigation.

Options - courses / programmes currently offered e.g. General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE), Vocational GCSE (VGCSE), Advanced Subsidiary / Advanced (AS / A levels), National Vocational Qualification (NVQ), Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC), Principal Learning and Project Qualification.

Together, the Core and Options make up the Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification.
The Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification is nationally approved and currently offered at Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced levels.

For further details visit: http://www.wbq.org.uk

Curriculum

All students in KS4 (year 10 and 11) and the Sixth Form participate in the WBQ as part of the Learning Core. The Learning Core will:
• help you to develop new skills and broaden your experiences
• help you learn about things that interest and affect you
• help you get involved in activities such as community work, voluntary work, work related education, the environment and wellbeing

The components of the Core are:
• Key Skills;
• Wales, Europe and the World;
• Work-related Education;
• Personal and Social Education and
• Individual Investigation.

Key Skills

Key Skills Coordinator: Ionwen Spowage
Email address: ispowage@builth-hs.powys.sch.uk

There are six Key Skills and these are as follows:
• Application of Number
• Communication
• Information and Communication Technology
• Improving Own Learning and Performance †
• Problem Solving †
• Working with Others †

† commonly referred to as the 'Wider Key Skills'

The Key Skills qualifications offered in Wales are certificated by means of an internally assessed and an externally moderated portfolio.

Course information KS4 (years 10 and 11)

Course information Sixth Form (years 12 and 13)