CURRICULUM FOR WALES
Education in Wales is changing
A new curriculum, known as the Curriculum for Wales, will be introduced across the whole country in September for all learners up to Year 7.
At Ysgol Emrys ap Iwan, all of the teaching staff have been working hard to develop a curriculum that is tailored to the needs and aspirations of our community whilst enabling our learners to be ambitious and creative, to make ethical and healthy decisions and to be effective citizens of Wales.
We have been working closely with our Primary Schools in the local cluster to ensure that common approaches are adopted in order for there to be a seamless move from Year 6 to 7, not just for well being, but on an academic front as well..
Although we will be starting to deliver aspects of the Curriculum for Wales from September 2022, we will not formally adopt our curriculum until the following year. This will give us the time needed to ensure that our systems that we implement are robust and fit for purpose.
We will soon be holding consultation sessions with learners and parents. Having input from all stakeholders is essential for us to design a curriculum that provides the support and guidance necessary to help our learners develop. Further information regarding these consultations will be shared in due course.
The Welsh Government have provided some short guides to help explain what the Curriculum for Wales will look like:
https://hwb.gov.wales/curriculum-for-wales
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The four purposes of the new curriculum is to support our young people to be:
* ambitious, capable learners, ready to learn throughout their lives
* enterprising, creative contributios, ready to play a full part in life and work
* ethical, informed citizens of Wales and the world
* healthy, confident individuals, ready to lead fulfilling lives as valued members of society
It will have six ‘Areas of Learning and Experience’ (AoLE):
* Expressive Arts
* Health and Well-being
* Humanities (including RE which remains compulsory to age 16)
* Languages, literacy and communication (including Welsh, which remains compulsory to age 16, and modern
foreign languages)
* Mathematics and Numeracy
* Science and Technology
It will also include the three cross-curricular responsibilities: literacy, numeracy and digital competence.
We will be populating this area of the website as the new curriculum develops.