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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.
Thank you.
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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 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.
Each year Welsh Government provides guides for parents and carers of children at the end of their first year in Foundation Phase, learners at the end of Year 2 and Year 6 in primary school and those 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.
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!
Hay Festival streaming the schools programme
Hay Festival is streaming the schools programme for KS2 & 3 on Thursday 24 May and KS 4 on
Friday 25 May. There are 12 events to choose from each day
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.
This resource for Key Stage 2 learners provides
a sample experiment which demonstrates what happens when light is refracted. In
this activity, learners duplicate Newton’s experiment with colours by creating
breaking light into the seven colours of the rainbow.
A best practice
toolkit for supporting the integration of refugee children into school life and
the curriculum.
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.
Deadline
is 31 May.
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.
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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