, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
If I can just come back to the point you made about a feeling of the language being imposed in schools, I never hear that argument around physical education or music, or geography.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
I wasn't going to name you, but—. [Laughter.]
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 7
If I could come in with two questions on the back of your initial questions—and thank you all very much for your evidence, by the way, it's extremely useful. Some unions, including the ones we've met already this morning in the previous session, and one of…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Okay. A final question. This relates to the exemption of schools, and in the draft Bill, it mentions providing primarily English language schools with two periods of exemption from the requirement to deliver that 10 per cent of the curriculum taught through…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
In terms of the—and I quote again—'bureaucratic burdens' that you feel that are already placed on teachers, do you think that this is a different kind of burden, as opposed to all the other education strategies that are put on schools?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Thank you very much. I will be asking my questions in Welsh. The NAHT, in their evidence—and I would be pleased to hear the views of everyone on this—have suggested that targets should be set based on demand for Welsh language education. Since 2017, the Welsh…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Listen, I fully agree with your concerns about of a lack of a bilingual workforce, and it has to be a priority for Welsh Government moving forward. I think we've got to be careful as well that we don't separate—Laura, with respect—language acquisition, which…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
I'm going to ask the next question in Welsh. I accept that there is a great deal of pressure in terms of ensuring the provision of a bilingual workforce—that is a challenge—and this Government needs to take that challenge seriously, but the two unions before…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 6
Thank you very much. I've just got two questions as additional questions. The first I'll ask in English, the second I'll ask in Welsh. I'm mindful of the position that you've set in terms of the pressures on the workforce. I think, ASCL—and I'm quoting here…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Introductions, apologies, substitutions and declarations of interest
If I could declare an interest—I have been involved in the development of a fair part of this Bill as designated Member, when we were involved in a co-operation agreement between Plaid Cymru and the Welsh Government.
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
Well, First Minister, there’s currently a tangible sense of worry, anger and disbelief in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, following the announcement that the Prince Philip Hospital will see its 24-hour minor injury unit’s provision halved for six months from 1…
, Plenary
Questions to the First Minister
1. Will the First Minister make a statement on the Welsh Government's healthcare priorities for Carmarthenshire? OQ61592
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
But not CEFR, in your view.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
Do you think this framework provides a way of differentiating between the first language and second language path, because everybody would be measured on the same framework?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
Okay. Thank you very much.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
Thank you very much to you all for your evidence, to begin with. It's been useful work, and it will be when we draw up our report and recommendations in due course. I'm just, in this part of questioning, going to focus on the CEFR framework. It's interesting…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
There is an additional category in the non-statutory guidance. So, what you're suggesting is that that should perhaps be adopted in the Bill.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Thank you. Just so the committee can be clear on this point, and to summarise what you've said about the primarily Welsh category, there is no minimum set out for that category, and the point that you made, Gwennan, at the very end there is that there is a…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Thank you. I think we'll return to the workforce in due course. Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
I agree. A final question from me, if I may, on the CEFR, and it's interesting to hear that you, Angharad, have done some research specifically on this. In the draft Bill, there are benchmarks in terms of attainment levels. We're talking about B2 for all…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
So, what you're saying is that there needs to be investment in training in childcare, but also in the education workforce.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Thank you.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Welsh Language and Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
On that final point then—a question for CYDAG, but I'd be happy to hear from you too—how much of a challenge will this be for our schools and for teachers, particularly, who will have to assess children according to an entirely new framework?
