, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 12
Okay.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 12
In the Bill, there is an aim for every pupil to reach the B2 level to be confident and independent speakers. That in general means some 600 guided learning hours with the target language. Is that your understanding too, and, if so, is this something that we…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 12
My second question, and last question, is in Welsh, so you'll need your headphones.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 12
Okay. Do you have anything to add?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 12
My question is around the CEFR again, and it's to do with two elements. The first one is whether it is broad enough to encompass all the language skills—those who have no language or very little down at the bottom end of A1, for example, and maybe even higher…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 11
Okay, thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 11
Okay. My final question then is this: in the context of the challenge around recruiting Welsh-medium teachers and support workers, now, in your response to the White Paper, you said this, and I'm quoting: 'The Council supports the proposal for a statutory…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 11
Okay. My next question—. I've got two questions left, one is around the ways that we could possibly offer some kind of inducements to attract more teachers into the profession, and one of them may be around offering a bursary at a level comparable to what…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 11
Okay. Thank you. You've mentioned the challenges in terms of the recruitment of teaching assistants already, so I will ask a slightly different question. Given that teacher recruitment—we've heard this from many of those who've provided us with evidence—is a…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 11
You've mentioned already the problem of the recruitment of teachers, and I assume that teaching assistants would also fall into the same category in terms of recruitment difficulties, particularly through the medium of Welsh. Can you also outline to us what…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 11
Okay.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 11
It's working. Okay. Sorry, if I can maybe start the question again.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 11
Is it fixable, or—
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 11
Oh, right. Okay.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 11
Sorry. Is it coming through, the translation? It's not, is it?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 11
How much of a problem in general is the retention of teachers and teaching assistants? You've mentioned already the problem of recruitment, but I'm talking—
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 11
Diolch yn fawr iawn. I'm going to be asking my first couple of questions in Welsh, so I don't know whether you've got the simultaneous translation working there. The first question is this.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 10
Thank you very much.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 10
You note in your evidence that you are not happy with the words that are used in terms of progression, namely 'it is assumed'. Are you suggesting that we should strengthen that?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 10
This is my final question. You and one another organisation—I can't remember who at the moment—have mentioned the importance of linguistic progression and that there is a lack of this in some areas of Wales. Can you explain to us what your concerns are about…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 10
Yes, you have. What's behind the question, of course, is the fact that I know a number of schools in west Wales, for example, that sell themselves as bilingual schools, but the children don't leave those schools bilingual. So, there is a means, in that…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 10
Thank you. Can I go back to one question that Tom asked and address it from a different angle? A lot of your evidence notes your concerns regarding this description of Welsh language education and that that is different to Welsh-medium education, which is…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 10
Thank you very much. I'll come back later with more questions.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 10
—ac yn pryderu, efallai, nad ydyn ni ddim cweit yn y man y dylem ni fod o ran niferoedd yr athrawon a chynorthwywyr dosbarth, ac yn y blaen. Ydych chi'n credu y dylai hynny cael ei gryfhau yn y Bil ac y dylem ni fod yn gosod targed, efallai, o ran cynyddu'r…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 10
Thank you. In your evidence, you have noted the importance of developing a bilingual workforce—
