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Last chance to provide your consent to stay subscribed to the DYSG updates!
Over the past few weeks you should have received emails asking you for your permission to send you future DYSG newsletters via email.
After 25 May 2018, you will no longer receive the DYSG newsletter unless you sign up again. So please keep a look out for Welsh Government reminder emails.
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The report is aimed at the Welsh Government, local authorities and regional consortia. The report’s findings and the associated case studies will also be of interest to headteachers and staff in primary schools when they reflect on their current curriculum provision and plan for curriculum change. The four stages of curriculum development will be of interest to headteachers and staff in other school sectors.
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Curriculum for Wales news - via podcast!
You can also keep up-to-date with developments to the new curriculum by listening to the Education Wales podcast on Spreaker or iTunes.
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The guides are for parents and carers
of children at the end of Year 9 in
secondary school.
If your school would still like to receive bilingual hard copies,
and/or community language versions, of this year’s updated guidance, please complete our request form on Learning Wales no
later than Friday 8 June 2018.
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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. Please bookmark the page.
Welsh National Tests Data
Collection
The
final deadline for uploading data is 6 June, or by the date
set by your local authority/consortium.
Once the last test for the testing cycle has been administered,
the headteacher must sign confirming that all guidelines were followed. The
declaration for 2018 must be signed and submitted to the relevant consortium by
the 15 June.
Launch of the National Academy for Educational Leadership.
Kirsty Williams, Cabinet Secretary for Education
What we plan to do in
response to Estyn's recommendations to improve Welsh standards and provision.
Thursday
24 May, 2018 - 09:00 to 16:30, Cardiff
Bridging
the Gap will put you in the room with government, think tanks, researchers,
politicians and business leaders as we kick-start a drive for action on the
biggest challenge facing our society.
With Cabinet Secretary for Education, Kirsty Williams AM and Chair of
the Social Mobility Commission Alan Milburn.
There are over 700 community and town councils in Wales.
They can be in charge of lots of things in an area like playing fields, public
toilets and putting up Christmas lights. We are
keen to hear the views from the youth of Wales!
The Welsh Government has asked Children in Wales to gather children and young people’s views on Brexit
If you are working with young people aged over 11 who you think would like to discuss their views on Brexit and enjoy being part of the workshop please contact us.
This questionnaire will close on 25 May 2018.
Free to attend, SkillsCymru are Wales’
largest careers, skills and apprenticeship events. Taking place in Cardiff and
Llandudno on 10 & 11 and 17 & 18 October, these highly interactive
events provide young people with the opportunity to discover their potential.
Contact Natasha Creighton to find out more by
phoning 01823
362800 or by emailing Visitors@prospects.co.uk
To continue to optimise the Hwb platform and as a result of ongoing teacher feedback, we will be making some major changes over the next few months.
Data will need to
be migrated from Hwb+ by Friday 25 May 2018. Contact hwb@gov.wales if you need support.
Data Sharing Agreement
We have created a new Data Sharing Agreements and templates
resource for seeking Consent and for Acceptable Use of Hwb. It is important for schools to agree to the online form prior to the
installation of the new Provisioning Client data synchronisation tool (see AWE IdP news
article). Schools that have not signed the new
agreement will be unable to synchronise data and create / maintain user
accounts.
A best practice toolkit for supporting the integration of refugee children into school life and the curriculum.
Here is a new interactive resource to help Key
Stage 3 learners develop their knowledge and understanding within the Science
subjects and to stimulate their interest in STEM subjects (Science, Technology,
Engineering, Mathematics).
Qualifications Wales is inviting
anyone with an interest in the summer exams (including learners, teachers and
lecturers) to complete a short online questionnaire, to share their views about
this year’s GCSEs, A levels and AS levels. The questionnaire should only take
around five minutes to complete, and will be open until 6 July.
The Professional Learning Passport is a free, online tool for recording your professional learning and development. To join the 12,500 of your peers currently taking advantage of this service and to find out more click on the link above.
Schools are invited to bid for funding from a £200,000 fund to help mitigate the potential impact of exceptional mobility or deployment of Armed Forces families on schools and their learners. The Fund is administered by the Supporting Service Children in Education (SSCE) Cymru Project.
This is a time
of major change in the world of Further Education, never has it been more
critical to ensure our education is delivering the best possible outcomes for
our learners. This conference aims to inform, inspire and invoke debate leading
to a better understanding and vision for the future.
The
‘Don’t be a Bystander’ campaign aims to show how powerful a positive
intervention can be for someone who is experiencing or who has experienced
violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence.
Registration closes on the 1 August
2018
The Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust
are inviting secondary schools in Wales to apply to have volunteer facilitators
come into their school to teach life saving CPR.
The Global Learning Programme-Wales in partnership with Show
Racism the Red Card is holding two more Safe Havens sessions: 6 June, Bangor and 20 June, Newport. This training is designed to
help tackle racism and islamophobia in schools and improve understanding of
current migration issues.
Contact ksims@educationdevelopmenttrust.com
to book your place by 18th May.
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