As Wales prepares for an overhaul of the school curriculum, Ceredigion is ensuring its teachers are ready to take on the challenge.

After the publication of a report by Prof Graham Donaldson in 2015, Successful Futures, the curriculum and assessment process for Wales began to be reformed.

Chief education officer Meinir Ebbsworth updated members of Ceredigion County Council’s learning communities overview and scrutiny committee on Thursday, 28 February, on the progress made.

She said that the work will start from Easter with a focus on four purposes – creating ambitious, capable learners who are enterprising, creative contributors as well as ethical, informed citizens and healthy confident individuals.

Councillors were told that the curriculum will be organised into six areas of learning and experience.

These are expressive arts; health and well-being; humanities, languages, literacy and communication; mathematics and numeracy; and science and technology.

All areas will include reference to digital competency, literacy and numeracy, added Mrs Ebbsworth, who said it was a curriculum “based on experience”.

Cllr Alun Lloyd Jones asked if there was a risk of the standards of first language Welsh being lowered with the scrapping of the term second language Welsh in favour of “one language journey for everyone”.

He was assured that Welsh language and literacy would remain as separate subjects and the “bar is still very high”, as would English language and literature.

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