The Minister for Education and Skills announced in his speech in February that, as part of our National Literacy Plan, we would be introducing a national reading test. We would also develop similar plans for numeracy. The National Reading and Numeracy Tests will be implemented on a statutory basis; the first groups of learners will sit tests in May 2013.
From Friday 16 December, the Welsh Government is seeking your views on proposals to widen the current requirement for teachers to register with a professional body to cover a wider sector which will include Further Education, Work Based Learning and Teaching Assistants. The consultation documents also seeks your views on whether other members within the education profession who contribute to the development of children and young people such as youth workers and other support staff should also be able to register. We are also seeking views about the functions that such a body should undertake. The closing date for the consultation is 30 March 2012. Consultation
This consultation seeks views on proposals to introduce an updated replacement for the Education (School Teachers’ Qualifications) (Wales) Regulations 2004. The consultation proposes to make changes to some of the requirements for recognition as a qualified teacher in Wales.
The application form for the 2011-2012 NPQH Programme is now available here. Guidance for candidates will also be available shortly in the same place.
Education Minister, Leighton Andrews, has announced an investment of nearly £1.4 billion in our schools over seven years as part of the 21st Century Schools Capital Funding Programme.
The Welsh Government is committed to preventing poor health and reducing health inequalities. As part of this, we plan to put forward a Bill which will introduce a statutory Food Hygiene Rating Scheme.
Banding information for all secondary schools in Wales has been published by the Welsh Government. Press release, school bands and secondary school banding methodology are now available.
This report details how regression analysis was used to ascertain the extent to which variations in child outcomes could be explained in terms of family circumstances and parenting practice in the pre-school years.
Work is well under way in producing the National Association for Able Children in Education (NACE) Cymru More Able and Talented Training Pack. Funded by the Welsh Government, this pack will be available for all schools and will enable More Able and Talented Coordinators to conduct professional development with colleagues in school and assist in significantly embedding provision for MAT in schools. The MAT Training Pack will be launched at the NACE Cymru cross-phase conferences in spring 2012 – Llandudno - 24 April, Cardiff – 26 April. Further information or contact naceevents@nace.co.uk
A pack of resources showing changes to Newport during the Industrial Revolution.
These resources use video and aerial photographs to take you to various Roman sites (and an Iron Age hillfort) in mid-Wales.
