Home Language Exams
At Mangotsfield School we have over 31 languages spoken at our school by staff and students. We are incredibly proud of our multilingual speakers and celebrate their success. We encourage and support all students who are confident in another language to explore the idea of taking it as a community/home language GCSE.
In 2024 11 exams were taken in community/home languages.
I want to take a Home Language GCSE exam what should I do;
- First check that there is a GCSE exam in the language that you speak.
We have a list below of all the Home Language GCSE exams that you can take with links to past papers.
- Are you able to speak, listen, read and write in the language? Home Language GCSE are in 4 parts - speaking , listening , reading and writing so it is important that you are confident to communicate in all 4 skills. As there is quite a bit of English in these exams.. and they are exams, it is important that you prepare for the exam - past papers will help you with this.
It is important to know that to be successful in any of our Home Language exams you need to be competent in English and be working at a Band C level or above in English.
- Get in touch with school so we can enter you in for a Home language exam. Before we register you, we will make sure that you are prepared for and know what to expect. Sessions will be arranged to meet with you to go through the format of the papers - but please remember we do not give lessons in Home languages.
- The deadline for entering exam entries is January.
- The school will enter you for the reading ,writing, speaking and listening exam and provide you with dates and times to attend the exams at school.
If you would like more information or to apply for a GCSE home language exam please contact David Pool our Exam Coordinator david.pool@cset.co.uk, Gemma Lenon gemma.lennon@cset.co.uk or Jane Bryan, our EAL coordinator jane.bryan@cset.co.uk.
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Arabic GCSE |
Pearson |
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Bengali |
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Chinese ( Mandarin and Cantonese) |
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Greek GCSE |
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Gujarati GCSE |
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Biblical Hebrew |
Pearson |
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Hebrew GCSE |
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Past Papers |
Italian GCSE |
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Japanese GCSE |
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Panjabi GCSE |
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Persian GCSE |
Past Papers |
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Polish GCSE |
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Portuguese GCSE |
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Russian GCSE |
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Spanish GCSE |
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Turkish GCSE |
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Urdu GCSE |
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