Baroness Jean Coussins has offered to ask a parliamentary question on the matter of home/heritage language exams in the coming days. We need to provide her with as much information as possible and we can only get that from you, NRCSE members.
So far we know that community-led supplementary schools that are also registered examination centres have been told by Pearson Edexcel that they will be able to enter predicted grades for candidates from yr 11 GCSE, and yrs12 and 13 A level to receive accreditation in line with mainstream.
This includes: Arabic, Chinese, Modern Greek, Gujarati, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, Russian and Turkish.
We are checking whether this is for all candidates (whether pupils at the supplementary school registered as examination centre or external candidates from other supplementary schools) as long as they completed a mock exam earlier this year. Please let us know what you have been told so far.
For Bengali, Modern Hebrew, Italian, Polish, Panjabi and Urdu, accredited by AQA, the situation seems different but we need more information. If you are entered for one of those languages please let us know what you are being told.
For yrs 10 and below Ofqual are advising pupils/parents that the children will present for the exam in November, or summer 2021. We know this is particularly problematic for home/heritage languages. What is your situation? What are you telling your parents?
It would help our case if we could provide data, i.e. an idea of the numbers in yr11-13 from your setting who you believe will be having their predicted grades accepted and those Yr10 and below who, for the time being at least, are going to be asked to take the exam in the autumn term.
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