Written question WQ89087

The Welsh Government supports a range of initiatives to assist parents and guardians in providing Welsh medium experiences outside of the classroom to their children.

The Welsh Government supports a range of initiatives to assist parents and carers in providing their children with Welsh medium experiences outside of the classroom. We’ve supported RhAG (Rhieni dros Addysg Gymraeg) to create Welsh4Parents, a website working to equip parents with information and opportunities to introduce Welsh within the home and outside of school. Resources, including free access to Welsh books, TV programmes and blended learning materials are also available on Hwb. We continue to work with organisations such as S4C, BBC and WJEC to promote these free resources.

We fund the National Centre for Learning Welsh to implement a new Welsh at Home programme, which offers parents more opportunities to learn Welsh. The programme includes a range of community courses that encourage collaborative learning between parents and their children, a tutor provision scheme in schools to offer lessons to parents and families and specific resources tailored for parents. The Clwb Cwtsh project, a joint project between the Centre and Mudiad Meithrin, also offers provision aimed at new Welsh learners and focuses on supporting parents to use the Welsh they have with their children.

We also work with the Urdd, Mentrau Iaith to ensure children, young people and their families can enjoy a broad range of Welsh language experiences inside and outside of school. These include family residential stays through the Urdd, local Welsh language music festivals as well as numerous other cultural, sporting and musical activities led by the Mentrau Iaith.

The Siarter Iaith delivered in Welsh medium schools and Cymraeg Campus for English medium settings is a framework to encourage and nurture language use within and outside the classroom through fun, informal activities. The framework also encourages pupils to be language champions to help the whole school community, including parents/ school governors, become involved in language use activities.