The guidance is provided for governing bodies, senior management teams and practitioners in primary, secondary and special schools and colleges, with responsibility for the planning and delivery of aspects of financial education.
The requirements for music at Key Stages 2 and 3 are set out in ‘Music in the national curriculum for Wales’. This document contains the programmes of study for each key stage, together with attainment targets and level descriptions.
The Welsh Assembly Government’s Basic Skills Unit is organising three workshops for Key Stage 2 teachers in February 2011, to be led by the expert Gary Wilson. Gary has written extensively on the subject and is in great demand for training workshops on this subject throughout the UK.The workshops will be from 10am to 3.30 pm. For further information and to book places, please email: bscnw@wales.gsi.gov.uk including your name, school and preferred location.
Please help us to encourage parents and carers to invest in their child's future by reminding them to apply for a £50 or £100 top up for their child’s Trust Fund account before the deadline date. Press release and further information
Following the successful launch of the meic advocacy service for Children and Young people in May 2010 the service is now being extended to be available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Register here for the event.
The Welsh Assembly Government is committed to ensuring that the Welsh language thrives. This consultation document sets out our vision for the language and what we will do, together with our partners, to increase the numbers who speak and use the language. We welcome comments.
This interactive resource helps children identify an animal living in the environment around them, how seasons affect it and how our actions can impact on its life. The resource encourages children to ask and answer questions and consider how they can demonstrate care, responsibility and concern for living things in their area.
An online termly magazine with articles designed specifically to engage and excite students about current scientific issues being discussed in the media that are often not covered by the curriculum.
Education Minister Leighton Andrews has welcomed a report which tested whether food and nutritional standards proposed in the Appetite for life Action Plan can be implemented in Wales. The 2 year Action Research Project was launched in Autumn 2008 in 9 pilot schools across four Local Authority areas. Press release and Action Research Project
A cross-party committee of Assembly Members has agreed, in principle, a proposed Welsh law that would compel local authority and governing body-provided school transport to be fitted with seatbelts.
