The Welsh Baccalaureate is changing and the revised version will be introduced for learners at 14 to 19 from September 2015. Hear from 3 schools who are trialling the Enterprise and Employability Challenge, the Community Challenge and the Global Citizenship Challenge at Key stage 4.
Guidance for Key Stages 2 and 3 – Exemplification of national curriculum level descriptions for Key Stages 2 and 3
These materials, originally published in 2008, provide key messages for practitioners for planning, teaching, learning and progression across all national curriculum subjects at Key Stages 2 and 3. They include profiles of learners’ work exemplifying the standards set out in the level descriptions and illustrate how to use them to make best-fit judgements.
Has your schoo or collegel undertaken some interesting digital projects this year? Do some of your teachers and pupils deserve recognition for the excellent work they are undertaking in digital learning? Tell us about your digital successes by applying for a National Digital Learning Award 2015! Remember – the deadline for submission of entries is 1 May 2015.
We need your views!
Following on from the publication of revised guidance, Keeping learners safe, we invite you to complete our short survey on safeguarding training in your school. The survey can be accessed here and will be open until 24 April
Sport Wales is now seeking your views and opinions on school sport to help guide local and national sports policies. Launched on 14 April, the School Sport Survey gives teaching professionals and learners an opportunity for their voices to be heard, to help shape improvements in school sport
Apprenticeship Ambassadors from key industries returned to their former schools to inspire young people in Wales to take up an apprenticeship.
An action plan for Wales seeks to improve attainment through creativity, increase and improve arts experiences in schools, and support teachers and arts practitioners in developing their skills.
We’ve launched a new website – Cymraeg, to support and promote the use of the Welsh Language. The website offers information on the range of Welsh language opportunities available, from introducing Welsh into the family, finding activities in Welsh for children and teenagers, to the benefits of using the language in the workplace. Live, learn and enjoy in Welsh – why not take a look?
There are new minimum requirements relating to tobacco use in schools.
Many schools are working towards the Welsh Network of Healthy School Schemes (WNHSS) National Quality Awards (NQA) and the 78th school has just received the award.
We have brought forward the timetable for withdrawing support for the National CLIConline website and will therefore terminate on the 30 April 2015, 10 months ahead of schedule.
The EWC, formed by reconfiguring the General Teaching Council for Wales, was created through the Education Wales Act 2014.
To find out more about the EWC and its work, visit Education Workforce Council, follow on twitter @ewc_cga and sign up for Education Wales, EWC’s e-newsletter.
WLGA Toolkit Launch for Service Children
The Minister for Culture and Sport will be launching the new WLGA toolkit for service children and service children families 23 June 2015 at the Pierhead building, Cardiff at 13:00. Please attend and show your support!
Welsh GCE and GCSE Qualifications –For Teaching from September 2016
Recruitment of experienced teachers and assessors to assist accredit some new specifications – Art and Design, Drama, French, German, Spanish. Food and nutrition, Geography, History, Music, Physical Education, Religious Studies, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Science and Welsh Second Language. A daily fee of £300 is paid and successful applicants would be required to undertake a minimum of 3 days work. Interested? Send your CV to GQAccreditation@wales.gsi.gov.uk Closing date 24 April 2015.