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24 educational professionals from across Wales have been announced as finalists for the 2018 national awards. Find out who they are!
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Curriculum for Wales blog
Reading and Numeracy assessment is changing soon; that suits the new curriculum
Primary school test window opens next week until the 9 May
Primary Schools will receive
their test materials this week
Schools
are reminded that a balanced
curriculum should be maintained in the run-up to the tests and that time spent
familiarising learners with test techniques should be kept to a minimum.
This document provides advice to help you
understand how to make the best use of your digital investment including
broadband, the local area network infrastructure and computing devices to
facilitate digital learning.
With over 65,000 children in Welsh-medium or bilingual
primary schools in Wales, why do parents consider the Welsh language important
for their children? We’ve created a guide to Welsh-medium education to help
parents begin the bilingual journey:
For those who want to use more Welsh at home, Cymraeg for
Kids has also created a helpful
songbook and video playlist to sing-along with.
The Siarter Iaith (Welsh Language Charter)
is encouraging primary schools to take part in a competition in three Welsh
towns - Pwllheli, Swansea and Cowbridge - and have placed stickers featuring
the Siarter Iaith mascots, Seren and Sbarc, in the windows of businesses in
these towns. Find out more.
The
benefits of registering your Out of School Childcare Club are far reaching, but
do you know what the benefits to your school and its families are? Find out
more here.
Kirsty Williams, Cabinet
Secretary for Education
Hay Festival streaming the schools programme
Hay Festival is streaming the schools programme for KS 2 & 3 on Thursday 24 May and KS 4 on
Friday 25 May. There are 12 events to choose from each day
Find out how this will affect your Hwb use.
The first of five new teacher’s guides offering helpful information for
teacher’s and support staff has been released. The first topic covered in this
series of teacher’s guides outlines what the General Data Protection Regulation
is and what it means for schools and colleges.
Five new playlists about screen time are now available for children and young people, education practitioners, parents and carers, and governors
The playlists include a range of documents, support services and agencies which schools, colleges, their governors, parents and carers may find helpful.
The second edition of an exciting new on-line newspaper
for KS2 pupils, containing a number of different articles. A new issue will be
published every half term. This resource is only available in Welsh
There are
many activities happening to mark this special occasion including an NHS70 Children’s Drawing competition
for primary age children across Wales.
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