28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
Ydy.
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
O ran y tasglu?
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
O ran y cysylltiad rhwng absenoldeb a thrafnidiaeth, dyna un o'r pethau y gwnaethom ni eu trafod yn y tasglu diwethaf. Mae angen gwneud darn o waith i weld beth yw'r cysylltiad—mae'n teimlo'n synhwyrol bod cysylltiad, wrth gwrs, ond i weld yn union beth yw'r…
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
Well, as you know, that's unhypothecated, so that will be a choice for local authorities to make. But I'm absolutely clear that local authorities right across Wales recognise the pressures that schools are under—school budget pressures—and I think there will…
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
Do you mean the funding in the RSG fiscal budget? Is that the point you're making?
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
Great.
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
Well, I think I'm proud of the—. It's a theme of the questioning today, Chair, if I may. I'm proud of the focus that we have brought to addressing, in particular in the context of COVID, but more broadly than that, the attainment gap in our schools, and the…
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
That is already part of the curriculum. It's part of the statements of 'what matters'. It's—I was about to say 'baked in', which I think is—. It's baked into the curriculum as it is. I was in a school last week in Monmouthshire, talking to them about some of…
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
Well, they shouldn't be happening regardless of the code, because the code needs to be taken into account, but what the code doesn't do is provide an absolute prohibition on the closure of a school, and nor could it, nor should it do that. I think the code…
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
I'm giving you an example of a school in a rural community that had what I'm certain were the best sporting facilities I'd seen in any school. So, I don't think that picture is quite as straightforward as you paint it. I think you are right to say we need to…
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
Yes, of course. What was the first part of your question? The 1.5 hours. I don't have a view on timetabling; I think that's a matter for heads to determine based on how they can best deliver the entire curriculum. But clearly, we want to make sure that young…
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
It's really important, isn't it? I completely acknowledge the point that you're making that physical well-being is a key way of supporting mental well-being and performance, not just from an academic point of view but in the breadth of experiences that we…
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
That'll be before August.
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
The exclusive I can give the committee is that it's going to be published today. I was hoping it would have been published by today, but we haven't been able to do that. But it will be published today, and I think it does absolutely provide enough time for…
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
Yes, I do. I think there are two aspects, aren't there? April is the first of two stages, if I can put it like that. So, from April, we will see the commission beginning to prepare its strategic plan, we'll be beginning the work of designing the new…
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
No. I would say, actually, that the reforms will strengthen that provision, and that sits alongside, of course, our very extensive capital programme as well, which will continue to be in place.
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
Yes. I think the broad answer to—. Well, let's take a step back. We had about, I think, from memory, 24 or 25 separate grants, each of which required separate reporting, separate accounting, separate administration. So, part of the thinking, but only part of…
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
The work of school improvement still needs to be done. The question is how you do that. The capacity in the system for delivery of school improvement is not going to change—it's going to be needed, isn't it? I don't have in mind a particular number; I'm not…
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
As I've just said, it won't be 22 local authorities doing it; there will be an expectation that local authorities work together in partnership in order to do what we've just been talking about. I think the opportunity for us in the reforms is to strengthen…
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
I think the world—[Inaudible.] In the decade since the 2013 reforms were introduced, there have been substantial levels of reform across our school system, and the reason I established the review of the roles and responsibility of our education partners…
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
Wel, mae gyda ni ymchwil sydd yn ymateb i hynny yn barod, actually. Ydy e’n rhywbeth cyhoeddus y gallwn ni ei rannu gyda'r pwyllgor?
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
—fel bod y drafodaeth genedlaethol yn un sydd yn seiliedig ar ddata, os hoffech chi, fel y pwynt roeddech chi'n ei wneud funud yn ôl. Felly, y cam rŷn ni wedi'i wneud ydy comisiynu Estyn i wneud adolygiad i ni o hyn ar draws y system yn gyffredinol, ac rwy'n…
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
Wel, jest i ddweud, mi wnes i benderfynu cyhoeddi'r data. Doedd neb yn gwthio arnom ni i wneud hynny, ond roeddwn i'n credu ei bod hi wir yn bwysig ein bod ni'n gwneud hynny—
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
Ocê. Byddem ni'n hapus ysgrifennu ymhellach i chi ar y pwnc hwnnw yn benodol.
28 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu cyffredinol ar waith Gweinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
Wel, mae nod penodol yn y cynllun gweithlu sydd yn annog cynnydd ar gyfer astudio lefel-A, oherwydd, fel rŷch chi'n gwybod, rŷn ni'n gwybod bod hwnnw mor bwysig i'r ddarpariaeth addysgol tu hwnt i hynny drwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg. Felly, mae e wir yn bryder; wrth…
