VCSE Built Environment
Mae disgrifiad y cymhwyster yn Saesneg yn unig, gan ei fod wedi ei gymryd o fanyleb Saesneg CBAC.
VCSE Built Environment asks learners to read a Welsh case study and technical documents such as briefs and risk assessments, to justify choices of sites, methods and materials in writing, and to evaluate their own practical work using accurate trade terms. Its numeracy is mostly practical and sits in the 60% Unit 3, with accurate measuring to tolerances, reading plans and drawings, mixing to ratios and estimating quantities, alongside cost, time and carbon comparisons and project timelines in Unit 2. The single biggest thing KS3 should build is accurate measuring and marking out in millimetres from a drawing, checked against a stated tolerance.
- Corff dyfarnu
- CBAC
- Lefel
- Level 1 and Level 2
- Addysgu gyntaf
- Medi 2027
- Faint o waith llythrennedd
- Canolig
- Faint o waith rhifedd
- Canolig
- Manyleb
- Agor y fanyleb
- Y cam cyn hyn
- Foundation Built Environment, Entry Level and Level 1
Sut mae'r cymhwyster hwn yn cael ei asesu
- Unit 1: Introduction to the Built Environment Sector: Examination (sector test) 1 hour, 50 marks, 20%, set and marked by WJEC, paper-based or on-screen
- Unit 2: The Built Environment in Focus: NEA 6 hours 30 minutes, 50 marks, 20%, set and marked by WJEC, tasks based on a case study released each year on Portal
- Unit 3: Skills Development and Demonstration: NEA 14 hours, 90 marks, 60%, set by WJEC, marked by the centre and moderated by WJEC, practical tasks in three chosen trades plus an evaluation
Sgiliau sy'n defnyddio Dehongli data
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Interpreting information about places and developments
Unit 2 asks learners to evaluate the characteristics of urban and rural settings in Wales against factors such as land availability, population density, housing needs and transport links, using the information in the case study. Appendix A maps the statistics strand to Unit 2, but the specification names no particular graphs or statistics.
Rhifedd: Dehongli data
Paratoi disgyblion
- Blwyddyn 7
- Pupils read a bar chart of average house prices in four Welsh towns and write two sentences comparing them.
- Blwyddyn 8
- Pupils compare the population and number of homes in an urban and a rural county in Wales, work out people per home, and say what that suggests about housing need.
- Blwyddyn 9
- Pupils use census figures for their local area to judge whether new housing is needed, draw a suitable graph, and note one limitation of the data.
Dangos geiriad y fanyleb a datganiadau'r Fframwaith Llythrennedd a Rhifedd
Ble mae yn y fanyleb: Unit 2, Section 2.2.2, page 24; Appendix A, page 50
“population density and housing needs”
Cam cynnydd 3
Rwy'n gallu echdynnu a dehongli gwybodaeth o amrywiaeth gynyddol o ddiagramau, amserlenni a graffiau (gan gynnwys siartiau cylch).
Rwy'n gallu dod i gasgliadau o ddata ac rwy'n cydnabod y gall rhai casgliadau fod yn gamarweiniol neu'n ansicr.
Cam cynnydd 4
Rwy'n gallu dehongli graffiau sy'n disgrifio sefyllfaoedd go iawn, gan gynnwys y rhai a ddefnyddir yn y cyfryngau, a chan gydnabod y gall rhai graffiau fod yn gamarweiniol.
Rwy'n gallu dehongli gwybodaeth fathemategol; gan ddod i gasgliadau o graffiau, diagramau a data, gan gynnwys trafod cyfyngiadau data.
Cam cynnydd 5
Rwy'n gallu dehongli gwybodaeth fathemategol; gan ddod i gasgliadau o graffiau, diagramau a data, gan gynnwys trafod cyfyngiadau data.
Rwy'n gallu dod i gasgliadau o ddata ac rwy'n cydnabod y gall rhai casgliadau fod yn gamarweiniol neu'n ansicr.
Da gwybod
- No marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar are named. All marks sit under AO1 to AO4, and AO4, "Demonstrate and apply skills relevant to the built environment sector", is 60% of the qualification (Section 3.1, page 41).
- Calculator use is not stated. Section 3 says "The Assessment Pack will include all detailed information relating to assessment" (page 41), so check the Assessment Pack for Unit 1 and Unit 2.
- The Unit 3 evaluation can be spoken: it may be submitted "either as scanned handwritten responses, completed electronically or completed as an audio or audio/visual response" (Section 3.2, page 43).
- Unit 2 gives reading and research time: "Learners are allowed time to read the case study and tasks prior to the assessment time starting" and up to two further hours can be scheduled for research (Section 3.2, page 42).
- During NEA "Teachers may clarify task requirements but must not provide feedback on the evidence being produced" (Section 3.3, page 43).
- Appendix A maps writing in Unit 3 only to topic 3.4, and maps the statistics strand to Unit 1 (1.2.3) and Unit 2 but not to Unit 3 (pages 49 to 50).
Cysylltiadau â chymwysterau eraill
Measuring to tolerances, reading scale plans and working out quantities overlap with GCSE Design and Technology and Mathematics and Numeracy, and land use, population and housing need overlap with GCSE Geography.
Ffynhonnell: WJEC Level 1/Level 2 VCSE Built Environment specification, approved by Qualifications Wales, teaching from September 2027, for award from 2029 (© WJEC CBAC Ltd 2026).