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As the Primary School test window opens this week, please share the link to the updated guidance on your school website and issue in your correspondence to parents and carers via email or in your newsletters.
Look out for posts on our Facebook and Twitter channels and please share!
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“Do we have to use Tech to hit all the
digital competence skills?” No!
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External Verification
and Cluster Moderation arrangements this academic year
Kirsty
Williams, Cabinet Secretary for Education issued a Statement
on the outcomes and early termination of the External Verification programme
after two years of successful operation.
Cluster
moderation became a statutory
requirement in September 2015 and all schools in Wales need
to participate in cluster moderation arrangements at Key Stages 2 and 3.
You
may be contacted to help assess how the Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN) policy on school
attendance is being implemented across Wales. The evaluation will run from 10
April to 31 July 2017.
We
have commissioned ICF Consulting Ltd and Arad Research to evaluate the
implementation of FPNs.
The
UK Government are holding a consultation on emergency adrenaline auto-injectors
in schools at the below links. This affects schools in Wales and we would
encourage your views. The consultation ends tomorrow, 5 May 2017.
Consultation
end date: 9 June 2017
There
is new best practice guidance available on child performance.
The
document sits within a suite of guidance on child performance, available on
Learning Wales, which can be found here.
Registration
for the National Digital Learning Event opens next Monday. Find out more about the event.
Book at place at our Maesteg HwbMeet now
Teachers and practitioners are invited to help identify new Welsh-medium resources.
It’s
Children’s Book Week! Why not share your resources with other teachers in the
Hwb Community. Use our Make
and Share Guide to see how you can create resources on Hwb.
Help the
children in your Reception class feel like real authors this term by creating
their own book, using the Pori Drwy Stori book-making materials. Find new ideas
and inspiration in our online teacher toolkit and guide
8
May is VE day! Check out our World War 2 resources covering topics such as what
it was like for women and children during the war (KS2/3).
This collection of interactive digital
activities based on 12 Welsh folk tales support Welsh language learners in the
Foundation Phase and KS2.
The closing
date for entries for this year’s Enterprise Troopers National Primary
School Competition has been extended to 8 May 2017.
All enterprise activity you’ve done since
January 2016 is eligible Pupils learn enterprise
skills such as teamwork and creativity and develops literacy and numeracy,
digital skills and softer skills like problem solving.
Connecting
Classrooms provides teachers with professional learning courses to help equip
students with some of the skills needed to prosper in a globalised society
(also known as ‘core’ or ‘wider’ skills). Two training courses are delivered in
Welsh or English across Wales by the British Council’s approved provider;
Think, Learn, Challenge. Watch the Connecting Classrooms video clip.
Cardiff
City Hall, 8 May 2017
Education
Workforce Council have invited the Wales' four commissioners to speak on the
future of Welsh education and the roles they can play in shaping Welsh
education policy. Speaking on stage are Sally Holland, Children's Commissioner
for Wales; Sophie Howe, Future Generations Commissioner; Meri Huws, Welsh
Language Commissioner and Sarah Rochira, Older People's Commissioner for Wales.
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