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WiFi problems? A new post on the Curriculum for
Wales blog may give you some useful suggestions on how to overcome them.
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New drive to connect Welsh pupils with coding.
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Read speech delivered by Education Secretary, Kirsty
Williams, at primary headtachers’ conference on Tuesday 20 June.
Education Secretary Kirsty Williams has recently announced three appointments to a new board that will play a key role in how Wales’ teachers will be trained.
341 schools set to get superfast broadband thanks to £5m of funding
The Digital Competence framework self assessment tool has now been made available with additional functionality. The Professional Learning Needs Tool – renamed to better reflect its purpose – helps practitioners identify areas where they feel confident or need development, and gives Headteachers an overview to inform planning.
School Business Manager collaborative pilots
The Welsh Government is seeking applications by Wednesday 28 June for match funding from LAs wishing to take part in School Business Manager collaborative pilots over a two year period. The pilots will support Head Teachers in clusters of primary schools to more effectively manage their workload and build expertise so Heads can better focus on raising standards.
Closing date 10 July 2017
Applications are now invited for the next HLTA scheme.
The draft Education Otherwise Than At School (EOTAS) Framework
for Action consultation
is live. These proposals are aimed at improving outcomes for learners
accessing education otherwise than at school provision. To support this
consultation, events are being held on the 14
July and 20 July 2017. Further information regarding these events please contact WELLBEINGshare.
You can book
onto the events now.
We want your views on the Education (Student Information) (Wales) Regulations 2017 and Education (Destination Information) (Prescribed Activities) (Wales) Regulations 2017.
Take
part in our engagement survey for new professional standards for FE Teachers and WBL Practitioners. This is an opportunity for you to comment on
the draft standards produced by representatives from your sectors.
We are delighted to announce that a mathematics editor has been added to Hwb. You can use this editor to easily type mathematical and scientific notation in resources and playlists.
Resources to support Key Stage 4 GCSE Geography learners to support generic enquiry/research and fieldwork skills in Geography, together with wider skills extending to the Literacy and Numeracy Framework.
The new Careers Professionals section on www.careerswales.com supports teachers, tutors and those working within the education sector to deliver their careers and world of work provision. Visit http://www.careerswales.com/en/professionals/ for key careers related documents, information about the Careers Wales Mark, Labour Market Information, Latest News and more.
Closing date: 12 noon on Monday 26th June 2017
The NNEM is keen to recruit enthusiastic and reflective individuals from
all phases of mathematics education as practitioner researchers. If you are
interested in using action based research to develop mathematics pedagogy,
learn more here.
Open until 5 July
Centres, learners, and other stakeholders have just
two weeks left to take part in a consultation on Qualifications Wales’s
regulatory outcomes and the mapping of Conditions. This work helps ensure their
regulatory activities focus on learners and the qualification system in Wales.
The Education Workforce Council are looking for a number of talented and conscientious committee members to join the ‘Board’, Chaired by Professor John Furlong OBE, that is now responsible for accrediting all programmes of Initial Teacher Education (ITE), leading to Qualified Teacher Status, in Wales.
The Education Workforce Council is contacting schools and colleges to collect data on SENCOs. Welsh Government will use this information to plan for the proposed Additional Learning Needs and Education Tribunal Bill (ALNET) and associated ALN Transformation Programme. SENCos/headteachers are asked to respond to EWC by 21/7/2017.
The
GTP is an employment based route into teaching in Wales. If you have been or
are currently a GTP trainee or stakeholder (school, consortia or HEI) the Welsh
Government would like to hear your views:
A Home Recycling Challenge, running throughout the Summer, invites Welsh primary schools to encourage their pupils to become recycling heroes, whilst also being in with a chance to win prizes! The challenge run by our delivery partners Recycle for Wales and Wastebuster was launched by TV presenter’s Gethin Jones and Maddie Moate.
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