CEREDIGION councillors on an education committee will be asked to back a bid to make Lampeter’s Ysgol Bro Pedr’s foundation phase Welsh-language only.

Governors at the school agreed back in March that they wanted to go out to consultation on providing the foundation phase at the school only through the medium of Welsh.

Currently one classroom is taught mainly through English with a second taught mainly through Welsh, but under the proposal that would be consulted on all foundation phase education would be taught through the medium of Welsh.

Both English and Welsh-medium classes would then run from Key Stage 2.

Members of the council’s learning communities scrutiny committee will now be asked to decide on whether they support launching a consultation and will make a recommendation to the authority’s Cabinet.

A report by chief education officer Meinir Ebbsworth said: “On 15 March 2018, members of Ysgol Bro Pedr’s governing body unanimously agreed to support a consultation process on the development of the language medium in the school’s foundation phase. The main aim of the proposal is to build on the existing language continuity.”

Ms Ebbsworth added: “The governing body’s decision to approve the consultation process also supports the wider context noted in Ceredigion’s WESP to see ‘more seven-year-old children being educated through the medium of Welsh’ and main objective 1.1 ‘to increase the current high baseline’.

“This decision also supports the local authority’s aim to teach Ceredigion pupils so that they are fully bilingual when they leave primary school and to develop this ability during their time in secondary education."

The scrutiny committee will meet today to discuss the report.

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