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If you’re short of reading time or want a non-screen-based way to stay up-to-date with Wales’ education reforms, you now have option to listen via Spreaker or on iTunes.
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Register now to attend the National Digital Learning Event at the Exhibition Hall, Celtic Manor, Newport, Wednesday 20 June 2018. The theme of this year’s event is ‘Sharing digital practices to support an evolving curriculum’.
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The diagnostic support
tools for the national reading and numeracy tests are now available. 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.
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.
The
Cabinet Secretary has announced her intention for a new school based, university partnered part-time PGCE,
to include a number of employment based places. Find out more.
The
latest bulletin covers:
- key stage 4 performance measures - announcement on future changes and 2018 arrangements,
- the contribution of the Advance Subsidiary (AS) qualification in
performance measures,
- developing consistent performance measures for the post-16
sector, and
- the Key Stage 4 cohort – pupils repeating year 11.
What we plan to do in
response to Estyn's recommendations to improve Welsh standards and provision.
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.
This event has been
prepared specifically for School Business Professionals and Headteachers in
Wales. Use code CM7m6Opn to book your FREE place for Llandudno.
To join the 12,500 of your peers currently taking advantage of this service and to find out more click on the link above.
Minister for Welsh Language
and Lifelong Learning, this week visited Merthyr Tydfil Institute for the Blind
to see the work they are doing to provide disabled people with opportunities
for employment
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.
From 22 - 24 June, The Great Get Together will be taking place across the country, and we’re asking schools to take part with a special assembly on Friday 22nd June.
Resources are now available to download on the schools page of The Great Get Together website.
PROCESSIONS
will be a living portrait of UK women in the 21st century. Find out more and get your school involved.
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