21 Chwefror 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Weinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
Diolch, Weinidog, rwy'n gwerthfawrogi'r sylwadau hynny. Ers dros flwyddyn bellach, rwyf wedi mynegi fy mhryderon wrthych ynglŷn â thangyflawniad addysgol ymysg bechgyn gwyn dosbarth gweithiol yng Nghymru. Felly, Weinidog, a allwch chi ddychmygu fy syndod pan…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i Weinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg
Diolch, Lywydd. A fyddai'r Gweinidog yn cytuno â mi a'r ddirprwyaeth drawsbleidiol gyntaf sydd newydd ddychwelyd o Ynysoedd Falkland y gallai cryfhau'r berthynas rhwng Cymru ac Ynysoedd Falkland—y porth i Antarctica—roi cyfle unigryw i ddysgwyr Cymru ac y…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gweithredu diwygiadau addysg - sesiwn dystiolaeth
Is that okay? Sorry. Can you hear me? Yes. You recognise the rise in complex needs, as you've just said, presenting themselves in mainstream education, but it now appears there is an intermediate category of learners who require more than universal provision…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gweithredu diwygiadau addysg - sesiwn dystiolaeth
Can you hear me now?
21 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gweithredu diwygiadau addysg - sesiwn dystiolaeth
Thank you. You've just recognised, obviously, the variety of complex needs presenting themselves in mainstream education. It appears there is now an intermediate category of learners who require more than universal provision—[Inaudible.]
21 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Gweithredu diwygiadau addysg - sesiwn dystiolaeth
Thank you, Chair. Yes, as you say, schools have had to deal with an awful lot in a short amount of time with the new curriculum and the ALN reforms coming in in a short amount of time. And not only that, the 22 different interpretations of the ALN reforms…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Adroddiad Blynyddol Estyn 2022-2023
Okay, thank you.
21 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Adroddiad Blynyddol Estyn 2022-2023
Just lastly, Chair. How concerned are you, then, that—? Obviously, exclusions are reducing in primary schools, which is welcome, but exclusion for less than five days has gone up markedly in secondary schools, by a third between 2018-19 and 2021-22, from 75…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Adroddiad Blynyddol Estyn 2022-2023
Thank you. Thank you for those responses; they're really detailed. So, do you think that the post-pandemic mental health crisis within our young people, the rise in ALN, really tight school budgets, the behaviour issues you just mentioned, the violence, do…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Adroddiad Blynyddol Estyn 2022-2023
Thank you—
21 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Adroddiad Blynyddol Estyn 2022-2023
Yes, okay. Thank you. Thank you, Chair. It's encouraging to see the outcomes for primary, but, with absence doubling to 12.5 per cent in secondary, it is a concern. In your annual report, it says that Estyn's inspection reports and pupil questionnaires report…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Adroddiad Blynyddol Estyn 2022-2023
Yes, it's quite interesting—[Interruption.] Sorry.
21 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Adroddiad Blynyddol Estyn 2022-2023
Thank you. Yes, I was going to ask you that, so it's really good that you're saying what I was just about to ask, because I think that sharing best practice is so important, isn't it? There are 22 local authorities with 22 different approaches, and within…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Adroddiad Blynyddol Estyn 2022-2023
Thank you, Chair. Just a quick comment: I'd just like to say that there do seem to be some welcome changes, particularly the emphasis on being a more positive part of the school's journey of improvement. I like that, but I do have some concerns about what you…
21 Chwefror 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Craffu ar Adroddiad Blynyddol Estyn 2022-2023
Thank you, Chair. I was just about to comment on that as well. As a parent myself, it would be really useful, I know, just to simplify what you're saying to parents and really do it in a form that everybody can understand, because it's quite difficult to…
20 Chwefror 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad a Chyhoeddiad Busnes
Gweinidog Busnes, fe hoffwn i ofyn am ddatganiad gan y Gweinidog addysg. Ers 2011, mae niferoedd yr athrawon i'r byddar wedi gostwng 20 gan y cant—un o bob pump o'r athrawon. Fe ddisgwylir y bydd un o bob tri athro yn ymddeol yn ystod y 10 mlynedd nesaf. Os…
20 Chwefror 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Cwestiynau i'r Prif Weinidog
Rwyf innau hefyd yn rhannu pryderon y cyd-Aelod dros Ddwyrain De Cymru ac, er enghraifft, ar y cynnig i adennill tomenni glo Bedwas, sydd wedi bod yn destun llawer o bryder ymhlith etholwyr yn fy rhanbarth i. Er bod Llywodraeth Cymru wedi honni nad yw'r…
31 Ionawr 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig: Darlledu rygbi'r Chwe Gwlad
Hoffwn ddechrau drwy ddiolch i fy nghyd-Aelodau am ddod â'r ddadl hon i'r Siambr heddiw. Fel y gwyddom i gyd, mae rygbi yn rhan annatod o'n cenedl wych ac yn rhywbeth y mae pawb ohonom yn ymfalchïo ynddo. Pan fydd y stadiwm yn canu a Chymru'n ennill, mae'n…
31 Ionawr 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig: Rhyddhad ardrethi busnes
Mae yna fusnesau lleol yn fy rhanbarth i, gydag un perchennog tafarn yn dweud, yn y bôn, fod y gostyngiad llai hwn yn ergyd drom i'r diwydiant ac iddo ef yn arbennig. Mae un arall, 57 Stryd y Bont ym Mrynbuga, wedi dweud hefyd fod Llywodraeth Cymru yn…
31 Ionawr 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl y Ceidwadwyr Cymreig: Rhyddhad ardrethi busnes
Janet, a wnewch chi dderbyn ymyriad?
30 Ionawr 2024 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Datganiad a Chyhoeddiad Busnes
Hoffwn i ofyn am ddatganiad gan y Gweinidog iechyd, os gwelwch yn dda. Yr wythnos diwethaf, cafodd ei gyhoeddi bod Bwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Aneurin Bevan yn cefnogi'r cynllun i gau Ysbyty Nevill Hall yn y Fenni yn fy rhanbarth bob nos o'r wythnos. Yn flaenorol…
24 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Thank you, Minister. Thank you, Chair.
24 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
There certainly are a lot of pressures on the system at the moment, Minister, you're quite right. But do you share my concern—this is my last question to you—that, of course, under the current situation, and LAs making cuts, we are seeing some cuts to some…
24 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
Okay, thank you, Minister. Your paper says that the Bill is simply not affordable. Could you just comment further on your concerns regarding the costs, and are there any alternative options and funding models for schools to finance a residential outdoor…
24 Ionawr 2024 , Children, Young People, and Education Committee
Bil Addysg Awyr Agored Breswyl (Cymru) - sesiwn dystiolaeth 8
So, you see that as, potentially, an extra burden on schools, then.