Thanks for your comments on this Anne. I'll leave Sue Balmer to answer
your questions about what the SST might be able to do vis a vis
supporting the presentation of a case to Edexcel. Sue is the National
Coordinator for Languages at the Trust and oversees the Chinese Network
- amongst many other things, I imagine! You will have noticed that she
has joined and been contributing to our email forum.
Katharine
In message <002d01c5bd00$1eae0d60$aa992b52@y0j4q7>, Anne Martin
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>It is great to hear that some non native speakers can get high grades.
>The attitude of both head teachers where I teach is that they do not want to
>offer Chinese at GCSE unless I can get a reasonable amount of capable
>students (10-15) through with at least C grades every year. I don't think
>this is possible yet with the difficulty that the exam poses for non native
>speakers. I'm therefore always teaching fairly basic Chinese.Does anyone
>else have this problem ?
>It is good to see that some far sighted head teachers such as Lisa's are
>willing to support small numbers of students taking the exam but I fear
>there are not many like this.
>Can we through the Specialist Schools Trust contact every school that
>teaches Chinese (most state schools must be lang colls ) and build a picture
>of the problems that schools face with Chinese at GCSE and present this to
>the exam board.
>Anne Martin
>The Ashcombe School and Trinity School
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Katharine Carruthers" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 1:02 PM
>Subject: Lisa Wang's results from Calday Grange
>
>
>> Dear All
>>
>> I have Lisa Wang's exam results (see the quote from her email below),
>> which I thought I would add to the discussion which is going on. (I have
>> asked her permission before putting them out on the forum!)
>>
>> Quote
>> "For AS, two students, one got A and the other got B grade. It was the
>> English student who got Grade A in AS Chinese! This was my first AS
>> Chinese course, so it is very important to know that I am in the right
>> direction.
>>
>> 6 students took GCSE Chinese, 4 of them got A* and the other two weak
>> candidates got E grade. Three out of the 4 A* were done by English
>> students"
>> End of quote
>>
>> Congratulations, Lisa!
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Katharine
>>
>> --
>>
>> Katharine Carruthers
>> Brooke House
>> Ashdon Road, Saffron Walden
>> Essex, CB10 2AA
>>
>
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Katharine Carruthers
Brooke House
Ashdon Road, Saffron Walden
Essex, CB10 2AA
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