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New Curriculum for Wales blogs
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Cabinet Secretary for Education Kirsty Williams attended the fifth National Digital Learning Event and Awards (NDLE) - a national conference aimed at raising the profile of digital learning and celebrating schools’ best practice in using technology in the classroom.
Presentations now available via Hwb
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We have produced a short animation to talk parents and carers through the National Reading and Numeracy Test reports. A link to the animation will be included on the pupil results sheet, but you may wish to share this link on your school’s website for parents and carers.
For information, the National Reading and Numeracy Test dates for 2018 will be 25 April to 9 May for secondary and 2 to 9 May for primary.
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341 schools set to get superfast broadband thanks to £5m of funding
The Cabinet Secretary has decided not to use her powers to direct local authorities and the governing bodies of voluntary aided and foundation schools as to what their term dates must be.
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.
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.
Pupils entering Year 7 of maintained secondary schools in Wales in the 2017/18 school year who are eligible for free school meals will be eligible for the school uniform grant; as will pupils in special schools, special needs resource bases and pupil referral units in Wales who are aged 11 at the start of the 2017/18 school year and who are eligible for free school meals.
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.
You can book onto the events now
Further information regarding these events please contact WELLBEINGshare.
Each session will
explore the current use of the Hwb+ learning platform. Register here
Schools as Learning Organisations – Nation-wide Study
The purpose of the study, a partnership between
Welsh Government and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD, is developing a professional learning culture
within and across our schools, to support the transition to the new curriculum. If your school has been invited to complete
the short survey, we would welcome your engagement and open and honest
feedback. Please note, we have extended the closing date until 21/07/17.
Bilingual Financial Education Resources available!
You can find useful financial education resources that are available bilingually on Learning Wales and Hwb. These resources can help you and your school to plan and deliver financial education and to also develop schemes of work and appropriate activities so that your pupils develop their financial skills.
‘Codi Hwyl’ a fun game for Welsh learners and speakers from the age of 7+ @SiarterIaith #Cymraeg
This report evaluates how well schools support pupils to develop safe, respectful personal relationships.
This report focuses on developments in the Welsh for Adults sector following a national re-organisation.
This report examines the importance of focusing on the independent living skills that young people with learning difficulties and disabilities will need for their future.
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.
Data collection on Special Education Needs Coordinators (SENCOs)
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.
GLP-W supports teachers to develop their learners as ethical and informed citizens of Wales and the world. Our Summer Newsletter includes new case studies exemplifying how pupils have developed their understanding of the impact they have on the world as well as how a rights based-approach has helped pupils focus on global issues and empathise with others.
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