The Welsh Baccalaureate
The Welsh Baccalaureate is an overarching qualification that adds a valuable new dimension to subjects and courses you can follow here at Yale College.
We offer it at foundation, Intermediate and Advanced level. At Advanced level we offer it through the medium of English and Welsh and worth 120 UCAS points equivalent to a Grade A at A-Level. It can be studied as an option alongside your A-Levels.
How the Welsh Bac benefits you
The Welsh Bac combines experiences and projects that help you to develop as an individual, and will equip you for your next steps – for work, university and for life.
The qualification proves you have developed the Key Skills considered important by employers and universities. It also shows you have furthered your personal and social education, undertaken individual research, gained work experience and participated in a community project.
You get help to succeed
The Welsh Bac has a strong focus on building your strengths and you will be encouraged to think and study independently. You receive support from a personal tutor who will give you the guidance you need to help you stay focused.
Rather than adding to your workload, students report that the Core activity improves their understanding and performance in their Option subjects. Teachers often say that skills gained through the Welsh Bac help students achieve their Option qualifications.
What does it set out to achieve?
By adding personal development skills to vocational qualifications or academic study, the Welsh Baccalaureate helps young people achieve more. It makes them better equipped for the world of work, better informed and more active citizens.
It allows for more flexibility in their studies, whatever mix of courses they are following. Students become better prepared for further and higher education, as well as employment. A Welsh Baccalaureate Qualification is also proof that a student has developed the Key Skills considered important by employers and universities. It also shows they have furthered their personal and social education, undertaken an individual investigation, gained work experience and actively participated in a community project
Welsh Bac Team who took came runners-up in the Wales Global Enterprise Challenge held over 2 days in the Urdd Centre and Millennium Centre, Cardiff. The Yale College team joined 20 other FE Colleges in Wales and over 120 fellow students in a variety of team-building activities before working on a testing and demanding 24 hour enterprise challenge with their mentor, a Dynamo Role model from DeVine Personalised Gifts. The Challenge was hosted by the Welsh Assembly Government and was opened by the Deputy Minister for Science, Innovation and Skills, and A.M for Wrexham, Lesley Griffiths.
‘Who’s go Talent’ - a Welsh Bac talent competition held between three North Wales Colleges.
Some students raising money for charity at our November Faire as part of their community partici
pation/Team enterprise activities for
theWelsh Bac.
For further information and detail contact john Donoher - jjd@yale-wrexham.ac.uk