, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
Lovely. Urtha.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
Lovely. Mary, did you want to add something?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
Ioan.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
Okay, thank you, Urtha, and thank you also for your paper. You've touched on some of those points in that as well. I'll bring in Ken Skates now. Ken.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
Yes, we can hear you. No, you're fine.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
Thank you. Urtha.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
Ioan, and then I'll come to you, Urtha.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
Ioan. [Interruption.] I'll bring Ioan in first.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
Thank you, Urtha. James Evans.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
Lovely. Urtha.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
Mary.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
Thank you. Diolch. Do you support the policy intention of the Bill, which is to ensure a course of residential outdoor education is provided once and free of charge as part of the curriculum to registered pupils at maintained schools? Yes, Ioan.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
That's fine.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
Thank you. Ioan.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
Thank you, Mary. Shall I go to Urtha?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 5
Croeso nôl. Welcome back. This is our fifth evidence session on the Residential Outdoor (Wales) Bill. I'd like to welcome our witnesses this afternoon. We have Mary van den Heuvel, senior policy officer Wales, the National Education Union; Urtha Felda, policy…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Okay, thank you. Okay, well, thank you very much for joining us. That's the end of the evidence session. We really appreciate you being here this morning. You will receive a copy of the transcript to check for factual accuracy in due course. But thank you…
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Okay. Anything else to add? Catherine.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Brilliant. Diolch, Rhun. Just finally from me: as schools have a duty to provide equal access to the curriculum for all pupils, do you think there could be any unintended consequences of including a course of residential outdoor education in the curriculum?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
I’ll bring Laura in as well.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Thank you, Laura. Rhun.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Okay, thank you, Catherine. Laura.
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Can I just see if, Catherine, you have a view?
, Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Thank you. We're going to move on to questions now from Laura Jones, but I'm quite conscious of time, so we might have to start speeding up on some of our questions and perhaps some of the answers. Laura.
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Residential Outdoor Education (Wales) Bill - evidence session 4
Absolutely. James.
