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Improvement Resource Type: Thematic Report

Improvement Resource Type: Thematic Report

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Recommendations

Schools should:

  • R1 Ensure that all pupils have regular discussions about their progress, aspirations and possible learning pathways, especially in Year 9 and Year 11
  • R2 Provide pupils with accurate and up-to-date information about the full range of sixth form, further education and apprenticeship opportunities open to them
  • R3 Evaluate their CWoW provision to ensure that it:
    • a. is delivered by well-trained staff, equipped with up-to-date resources
    • b. provides pupils with relevant work-focused experiences
    • c. makes better use of information to monitor and track trends in pupils’ achievement and progression so as to plan improvements in provision
    • d. is integrated into whole-school self-evaluation, improvement planning and accountability processes
  • R4 Involve governors more in the strategic oversight of CWoW

Local authorities and regional consortia should:

  • R5 Help schools to develop their use of information to evaluate the effectiveness of their CWoW provision

The Welsh Government should:

  • R6 Facilitate stronger partnerships between schools, providers, employers and others to improve the delivery of impartial advice and guidance
  • R7 Review the CWoW framework and update guidance in light of the principles of curriculum reform identified in Successful Futures

Improvement Resource Type: Thematic Report

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Recommendations

Schools should:

  • R1 Make sure that science lessons challenge all pupils, particularly the more able, and reduce the achievement gap between pupils eligible for free school meals and their peers
  • R2 Make sure that pupils have opportunities to learn about all areas of the design and technology curriculum, particularly ‘systems and control’
  • R3 Ensure that assessment helps pupils know what they need to do to improve
  • R4 Ensure that self-evaluation processes are robust and focus on pupils’ subject knowledge, understanding and skills, and on the quality of teaching
  • R5 Provide teachers with training in the areas of science and of design and technology where they lack knowledge and confidence

Local authorities and regional consortia should:

  • R6 Provide more subject-specific support for teachers to improve teaching and assessment in science and design and technology and facilitate the sharing of good practice
  • R7 Provide more support for schools to evaluate their curriculum and plan for the development of the science and technology area of learning and experience

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Recommendations

Schools should:

  • R1 Plan and deliver meaningful opportunities for pupils to develop and apply their financial skills across the curriculum
  • R2 Monitor and evaluate the quality of learning and teaching for financial education
  • R3 Provide staff with appropriate training to improve provision for financial education

Local authorities / Consortia should:

  • R4 Facilitate effective arrangements for schools to share best practice and resources for financial education
  • R5 Review their training programmes for numeracy to ensure that they enable teachers to develop a sound knowledge and understanding of financial education

The Welsh Government should:

  • R6 Review and promote its guidance material for the effective delivery of financial education, to include a database of useful resources and organisations for schools
  • R7 Support the development of bilingual digital financial education resources
  • R8 Ensure that financial education is included in the development of the new area of learning and experience for health and wellbeing as well as mathematics and numeracy

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Recommendations

Schools should:

  • R1 Implement Welsh Government guidance to provide a whole-school approach to preventing violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence (Welsh Government, 2015)
  • R2 Ensure that key messages around healthy relationships are embedded in the curriculum and reinforced regularly
  • R3 Build on the best practice identified in this report

Local authorities and regional consortia should:

  • R4 Ensure that all staff who work in schools complete the training set out in the National Training Framework (Welsh Government, 2016a)

The Welsh Government should:

  • R5 Publicise guidance further to ensure that schools and governing bodies are aware of the advice and guidance they contain
  • R6 Ensure that those involved in curriculum design and development for the health and wellbeing area of learning and experiences are aware of the important role schools have in implementing the VAWDASV Act 2015 (National Assembly for Wales, 2015) and include healthy relationships education in their work
  • R7 Provide access for staff who work in independent schools and colleges to the National Training Framework (Welsh Government, 2016a)

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Recommendations

The National Centre should:

  • R1 Develop its procedures for holding the providers to account for their performance and their compliance with the national policies
  • R2 Refine its marketing strategies in co-operation with providers to target more potential learners across the various communities of Wales

Providers should:

  • R3 Fully implement policies and practices introduced by the National Centre
  • R4 Improve their understanding of the governance arrangements and policies of the National Centre