, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Just on that really quickly, you mention that you didn’t feel there was confusion, if you like, at category 1 and 3, but category 2 would be confusing. I wonder whether the title 'primarily English, partly Welsh' is something that would confuse, potentially…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Thank you. Can I ask both of you what your views are on the language categories that will be applied to schools under the Bill? I know there's talk about the dual language category, perhaps, being confused with the previous category of dual stream. Is that…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Sorry, I should say it's not a target, it's a requirement. Apologies for my phraseology.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Thank you. I understand the point about the geography, and, obviously, you'll be representing very different places in terms of where you are on this Welsh language journey and speaking in communities more generally, but I'm curious about those schools that…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Very helpful, thank you. Marc.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Okay. And, obviously, the Bill allows for some flexibility in that 10 per cent to schools in that position you mentioned, that can't reach that 10 per cent. So, I take it from the evidence that you'd anticipate most Blaenau Gwent schools, if this Bill was…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
So, in looking at the Bill, as you currently understand it, how much of a leap is it, practically, to get from where we are today to being able to reach that 10 per cent?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 9
Thank you very much. Can I start with this issue around primarily English schools and their requirement to teach 10 per cent, or 10 per cent of the teaching time, through the medium of Welsh, including, obviously, the teaching of Welsh as a subject, because I…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Education funding
Having reading the NAHT report, 'Falling Short', I think the phrase is 'shocking but not surprising', because I think any of us who have spoken to school leaders in our communities, in our regions and constituencies across Wales will probably be met with that…
, Plenary
Plaid Cymru Debate: Education funding
Could I start by thanking Plaid Cymru for bringing this debate forward to the Senedd today? I know it's a very important debate, and I'm pleased to say that the Welsh Conservatives will be supporting this motion today.
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Welsh Language
Thank you to Rhys ab Owen for that question, an important question. I was pleased—I almost called you 'First Minister'—Cabinet Secretary, to hear you use the word 'use' in your original response to Rhys ab Owen, and that's important, because we do have a…
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Welsh-medium education through late immersion
I have a couple of observations, but can I start by saying that I think late immersion is very good for those that have missed out, as you acknowledged, on those early Welsh language opportunities in childcare, in nursery, and in schools? But how can we make…
, Plenary
Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education: Welsh-medium education through late immersion
Thank you, Cabinet Secretary, for your statement this afternoon. It's important to say—although it feels like I say it all the time when we're doing statements of this kind—that the Welsh language belongs to everyone. It's important that everyone feels that…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
You said you had clearly advocated for phonics. This is your statement from last week. Quote: the Welsh Government 'do not advocate any one specific method to teach reading'. That’s your quote from last week. No wonder schools don’t think you’ve been clear…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
I think the ITV piece was very clear that schools and teachers were not the problem and it was the advice given by Welsh Government that was the problem in this area. And part of that advice is the statement issued by the Welsh Government saying that it…
, Plenary
Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education
Diolch yn fawr iawn, Llywydd. Cabinet Secretary, ITV reported on Thursday last week that 20 per cent of our children in Wales are functionally illiterate at the time they enter secondary school. We also have the worst reading skills of anywhere in the United…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Thank you. Back to you, Chair.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Thank you. And one final question on a fairly similar theme. Obviously, the Bill would require all schools to have a Welsh language education delivery plan. Again, how different is that to what schools currently have, and how much change does that mean in…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Diolch. In the context of the primarily English, partly Welsh schools, you'll know, obviously, that the Bill requires 10 per cent of the time teaching Welsh language education. I just wonder, from the context of what you see in school inspections and those…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 8
Thank you very much. In your written evidence, you mention that you felt as though the language categories that were being suggested were complicated or misleading. Can you speak a bit more to that, particularly for the implications that that would have for…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
Diolch yn fawr. One last question, for everybody, I guess: what are your views on the requirement for all schools to have a Welsh language education delivery plan and how much of a change is that in practicality, compared with what schools are already doing?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
If I could ask you one further question, Ioan. You've mentioned this already. Do you have any concerns about any unintended consequences for Welsh-medium schools under the Bill? Perhaps the unique benefits of Welsh-medium education aren't as prominent, given…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
I don't know if anybody else has got any view on that, about the realistic nature of that goal.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
Thank you very much. Can I start with the NEU, if that's okay? I note that in your written evidence to us you talked about the school language categories. You mentioned that the scale of change you thought would be needed to encourage a school to move from…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Okay.
