Darllenwch y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg

Your update on Education in Wales: our national mission – issue 4 – the latest on Wales’ education reforms.

Darllenwch y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg

I listened to a radio debate about arts education in England on Radio 4 last month.

The pained discussion about creativity being a key skill in the economy of the future, and young people needing to be adaptable in a rapidly changing jobs market, didn’t reflect well on the English approach.

Now I’m not writing to compound that criticism on our dear neighbour, but the contrast with our own approach couldn’t have been clearer. For me the debate could have been a celebration of where we’re heading with the new curriculum for Wales. Continue reading →

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In the absence of an index we hope you find this latest list useful for finding items you might want to read.

New curriculum and assessment arrangements Continue reading →

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Minister for Education Kirsty Williams celebrates the year and the education profession in her personal message.

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Hear Jenny Scott, Head-teacher at Ninian Park Primary School talk about how her team has used the ‘Schools as Learning Organisations’ (SLO) approach. SLO has been designed by Welsh Government in partnership with OECD to help schools adapt to change. Continue reading →

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We are Pentrehafod school. We have a caring culture, consistently improving results, and are using the new Professional Teaching Standards (2018) to underpin our school vision to deliver the very best provision for all of our learners.

Our journey with the new Standards actually began in the Summer Term of 2017, with the inception of a working party that embraced opinions and insights from practitioners at all stages in their career, from NQTs to Middle and Senior Leadership. Working in partnership with colleagues from across our cluster, along with another local Secondary School, we adopted a collaborative and collegiate approach to refine and strengthen our current systems to ensure that our teachers were equipped with the knowledge and skills to work with the standards in order to continually improve learning outcomes for all of our students. Continue reading →

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Schools will have much more freedom to develop school-level curriculum under the new national curriculum. All practitioners will be encouraged to re-visit and refresh their skills to help bring it to life successfully for pupils.

This animation describes the new National Approach to Professional Learning that has been created to support practitioners’ development.

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