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Register now for the the National Digital Learning Event! Kellie Williams will be one of the presenters at the digital
marketplace where she will be offering practical examples of how to address the
Digital Competence Framework. Read Kellie’s blog
post on her views on the Framework and why you
should attend the event.
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Friday 16 – Sunday 18 June 2017
Inspired by MP Jo Cox, who was tragically murdered last year, The Great Get Together aims to bring together communities, neighbours, pupils and friends to share and celebrate all that we hold in common. Read the Cabinet Secretary for Education's letter to schools, here
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Categories included:
- Headteacher of the year.
- Award for promoting pupil wellbeing and inclusion in school.
- Award for supporting teachers and learners.
- Whole school award for promoting relationships with parents and the community.
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Welsh National Tests Data Collection
The final deadline for uploading data
is 7 June,
or by the date set by your local authority/consortium.
The declaration for 2017 must be signed and submitted
to the relevant consortium by the 14
June.
The diagnostic support tools for the
national reading and numeracy tests are now available. These tools will support
teachers’ analysis of the national test results for their pupils and will map
performance to the National Literacy and Numeracy Framework.
With immediate effect schools are only expected to produce an annual narrative report for parents/carers based on the LNF in:
- English, Welsh and maths at Key stages 2 and 3
- Language, Literacy and Communication Skills and Mathematical Development in the Foundation Phase.
This change will be for all schools.
Every year we have provided guides for parents and carers of children at the end of their first year in Foundation Phase, learners at the end of Years 2 and 6 in primary school and those at the end of Year 9 in secondary school.
Parental engagement research has shown that an increasing number of parents and carers access information to support their children online. As a consequence we will be looking to reduce the number of hard copies of this publication in the future.
If your school would still like to receive bilingual hard copies, and/or community language versions, of this year’s updated guidance, please go to the Learning Wales page and complete our request form no later than Thursday 25 May 2017.
We want your views
on how best to implement the new system to
support learners with additional learning needs. Closes 9 June 2017.
“There has been a six percentage point improvement in the GCSE results of children growing up in care” - Education Secretary Kirsty Williams (Weds 10th May).
his year for the first time, with support from Welsh Government, the Hay Festival will live stream its Schools Programme to every school in Wales. Join the festival live on www.hayfestival.com/livestream - 25 May for primary schools and 26 May for secondary schools. There are teaching resources available to use before, during and after the festival.
We want your views on the Education (Student Information)
(Wales) Regulations 2017 and Education (Destination Information) (Prescribed
Activities) (Wales) Regulations 2017.
Learning Wales user testing
This short questionnaire
will test how well the site is organised and help us make our documents easier
to find. As part of ongoing improvements we may send out further questionnaires
through Dysg. Your input is greatly appreciated!
Teachers and practitioners are invited to help identify new Welsh-medium resources.
Spend
5 minutes a day learning #Cymraeg with Duolingo for free.
The National Academy for Educational Leadership is being established to enable high-quality leadership development across the system. We are inviting Headteachers and other leaders to upcoming roadshows across Wales. These will provide a valuable opportunity for you to help shape the focus of the Academy.
21 May 2017 is the UN World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development. There are many ways you could celebrate at school, so find out more and let us know how you school celebrated by posting your activites on Twitter #celebratingculturaldiversity.
On European Resucitation Council Restart a Heart Day, Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust are inviting all
secondary schools in Wales to apply to have volunteer facilitators to come into
their school to teach life saving CPR. Find out more and register before the end of May!
Friday
20 October 2017 at the Celtic Manor, Newport
Application
forms for the
Apprenticeship Awards Cymru are now available. The Awards celebrate the
achievements of learners, employers and work-based learning practitioners who
have excelled in contributing to the Welsh Government's
Apprenticeship Programme. The closing date for applications is 12pm on 23 June 2017.
Have
you booked your place at the Brecon HwbMeet yet?
Aled Williams will be speaking about how incorporating Hwb tools has allowed him to integrate
the Digital Competence Framework into his teaching at our Brecon HwbMeet.
This website tells you about 81 of the most
important places in the history of Wales, from castles and abbeys to
waterfalls and canals. The map provides information on all these places, with
educational interactive activities for each place.
A resource containing corresponding Mathematics
terms in English and Welsh for Key Stage 3 and 4 learners.
A brand new toolkit which helps teachers and
artists work together to develop pupils’ literacy and numeracy skills through
the expressive arts demonstrating how the creative arts can provide stimulating
and rich opportunities to help teachers.
Following
the ‘Introducing GCSE Welsh Second Language’ events that took place in January
2017, we’ve produced an overview of common queries and observations raised
during the events, together with the panel’s responses.
Qualifications Wales published its Regulatory Framework and
Approach on 10 May 2017. This document summarises their current framework and
approach to the regulation of qualifications in Wales and outlines its plans
for developing this further.
Last
chance to register for Estyn peer inspector training
Registration closes Friday 26 May
All
peer inspectors must attend Estyn’s summer training to be eligible to inspect
under the new framework from September.
Contact
events@estyn.gov.uk or 02920 446510
to secure an invitation if one has not been received.
Training is available in south, south-west, mid and
north Wales on a choice of dates in June or July, although some capacity is
now limited.
Read the blog about the visit of representatives from further education colleges and work based learning providers to Catalonia during last week. The purpose of the visit to learn from post-16 establishments on how they teach through the medium of Catalan and Spanish in a bilingual country, and how they introduce other languages to the young people.
This is a publication created by Fostering
Network and aims to support foster carers on how to help the children in their care raise
their academic aspirations and succeed at school.
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