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Our parents and carers' guide to the 2016 tests is now available online. Please share this information
with parents and carers and make available on your school’s website. Please also send out via your newsletters and if you have one, your social media channel, such as Twitter.
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The handbook
includes summaries of each of the test administration manuals and guidance on
access and disapplication arrangements. Headteachers, test administrators and
teachers should familiarise themselves with this document.
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Have you booked your place on the supported marking
events? It is strongly recommended that all schools with learners in years 7 to
9 take up this valuable opportunity.
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The Deadline for schools and FE colleges to upload their Key Stage 4 and 16-18 local curriculum offer course information onto Careers Wales Online has been extended. Please ensure that this process is completed and all local curriculum offers have been confirmed by 29th April using The Careers Wales Online system.
Qualifications Wales hits the road as
consultation continues
Qualifications
Wales is heading out on the road to hear what teachers and others think of the
planned reform of GCSEs, AS and A levels to be introduced in 2017. We are
holding a series of meetings across Wales to raise awareness of the consultation, including venues in Llanelli,
Nantgarw, Connah’s Quay, Llangefni and Newtown between April 25th
and May 11th.
Further
details of the consultation exercise, which started on April 4th and
runs until May 15th, are available on the Qualifications
Wales website.
Appeal for subject
experts
Qualifications Wales, is looking for
subject experts across a range of subjects to review draft specification and
specimen assessment materials, ensuring they are fit for purpose and meet our
regulations. Subject experts will be required to work the equivalent of between
3 and 10 (non-consecutive) days at a rate of £300 per day
Further details, including an
application form and full terms and conditions, are available here.
Hwb+ transition projects
As Year 6 pupils embark on their final term in school you may wish to
incorporate transition projects into your teaching. Why not use Hwb+ to create
a class site for a year 6 to 7 transition project? Visit Hwb for guidance on how to create a collaborative Hwb+
site.
National Digital Learning Awards 2016
Entries close on Monday 18 April 2016 at 16:00hrs. Apply using a simple on line form, available on Hwb. Further details, examples of previous winners, and guidance for applicants.
Double Club resources on Hwb
KS2 and KS3 resources to support Modern Foreign Language teaching through Wales’ participation in the European Football Championships 2016.
Take a look at the colourful French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Welsh workbooks available on Hwb.
Teachers and practitioners are invited to help
identify new Welsh-medium resources.
A new and comprehensive Welsh language dictionary for the secondary and post-16 sector. The dictionary contains over 45,000 Welsh definitions, 38,000 English words and 12,000 technical terms.
Issue
34 - Everything that is yellow is not gold
A new issue of Gweiddi is now live! The theme for this
edition is Everything that is yellow is not gold. Welsh Key Stage 3 pupils can
read about April Fool's, Rio de Janeiro a New friend and much more. Read and
enjoy!
Current vacancies (Estyn)
Assistant Director and Strategic Director vacancies
Apply by 10am Thursday 28 April.
There are 8
fully-funded British Council Chinese Language Assistants available for Welsh
Primary and Secondary schools for the next academic year.
The Wales
Centre for Equity in Education is delighted to invite you to attend the next
Wales Journal of Education event. The Future of Professional Learning in Wales:
Research Informed Policy and Practice Conference will be held on Wednesday 25th May 2016 at 9.15am –
3.15pm in the Glamorgan Building of Cardiff University. This event is being
supported by BERA.
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