The Ebacc

The Government has plans for the vast majority of students to take the English Baccalaureate (up to 90% nationally by 2025). This will eventually become the norm and therefore it is important to ensure that the current Year 9 students are equally well qualified as those who will follow in the next few years. Our recommendation, therefore, is that most of our Year 9 students will take the full English Baccalaureate, as have the majority of our students ever since its first introduction, but all students will select at least one subject from the list of extended core subjects. To achieve the English Baccalaureate students need to achieve 5 to 9 GCSE passes in all of the subjects that make up the EBacc. 

A leaflet explaining a little more on the EBacc from the Department for Education is shown below.