Welsh Medium Education
Curriculum
-We are proud to welcome the New Curriculum for Wales, which has been statutory in primary school across Wales since September 2022. Staff have undertaken professional development and have conducted wholesale review of curriculum provision to ensure our revised thematic planning is in line with the new guidance. Essentially, we ensure that all curriculum planning keep in mind the 4 purposed of the New Curriculum. These are to ensure that our learners are given opportunities to be...
- Enterprising ambitious, capable learners who are ready to learn throughout their lives,
- Ethical creative contributors who are ready to play a full part in life and work,
- Healthy, informed citizens who are ready to be citizens of Wales and the world.
- confident individuals who are ready to lead fulfilling lives as valued members of society.
This means that in school he/she will follow a curriculum, which will:
- Develop the basic skills - speaking, reading, writing mathematical and I.C.T skills
- Give him an opportunity to study and to interpret his environment;
- Foster a healthy attitude towards his fellow beings;
- Enable him/her to gain varied experiences and to give expression to them.
The above objectives will be achieved through the implementation of the Literacy and Numeracy Frameworks as well as the Digital Competence Framework. We measure pupils' progress through the Curriculum Progression Stages link for Wales and believe that pupils' personal progress is the key.
The six fields of Learning and Experience recommended in the Donaldson review are:
- Expressive Arts
- Health and Well-being
- Humanities
- Languages, Literacy and Communication
- Mathematics and Numeracy
- Science and Technology
Our aim is to try to ensure that the child, by the time he is eleven years old is one who is fluent and able to read and write in both languages; who is aware of the world around him as well as being a child who in the course of his school career has had every opportunity to develop fully according to his age, ability and aptitude.
In addition, pupils in Years 2,3,4,5 and 6 will be assessed in National Tests in Numeracy, Reasoning and Reading. In order to aid Teachers Assessments, staff meet on a regular basis to standardise work, to hold professional dialogue on pupil progress. The overarching aim is to ensure that all pupils are progressing according to his/her ability against the Progression Steps which is a cornerstone of the New Curriculum for Wales.
Most of the lessons are taught by the class teacher but staff specialities are used to present some areas of the curriculum at Key Stage 2 Art, Technology and P.E.
It is ensured that children in each class are given differentiated work suitable to their capability, Pupils attainment is tracked and assessed formatively, and parents will be invited to discuss pupil progress on numerous occasions during the academic year.
