The Council’s public consultation starts at St Davids City Hall at 6.30 on Monday 23 March. We now have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to agree a plan of our own – a realistic and practical vision of the 21st Century education that we want – and to campaign for that vision to become the future of our infants, the daily life of our families and our legacy for generations to come. On this website you’ll find all you need to know to have your say and make a real difference. Here are the dates you can’t miss……
Schools for the Future
a community vision for 21st Century education in mid and northwest Pembrokeshire
Category: facts and figures (page 2 of 2)
The Council’s public consultation begins on Monday 23 March and ends Tuesday 5 May. St Davids schools for the future is holding two meetings during that time to gather your views and turn them into a proposal on behalf of the whole community. Here are the 8 things you need to know to get up to speed on the issues.
In our interview with Kate Evan-Hughes, director for Children and Schools at PCC, she told us the only way to keep secondary education on the St Davids Peninsula is to amalgamate YDS and at least two local primaries, creating an all-through school for St Davids. Our Schools and Education research team find that it’s a model that is transforming rural education for the better elsewhere.
Ysgol Bro Hyddgen, is the new all-through school in Machynlleth. The parallels with St Davids are striking. Ann Evans, former YDS teacher, spoke to Headteacher, Dafydd Jones.
Just 3 years ago Pembrokeshire County Council had a plan to make the very best use of digital technology in schools. It had the great idea that online learning could reduce support and transport costs and give students a wider choice of subjects right there in their schools. Now the plan is to bus them daily on a 30 mile round trip to a centralised 6th form unit.
Online communication, advertising, research, entertainment – it’s at the heart of 21st Century business and at the heart of 21st Century homes. Digital skills are central to the Donaldson Review and the Welsh Government’s vision of 21st Century education. Could online learning give us a 21st Century solution here? Here’s Toby’s story.
“The internet at school is useless”, I’ve heard over the dinner table. It’s the view of a frustrated 14 year-old, but it’s true. We can do more online at home than the kids can do at school. How can our children get ready for life in a digital world with the online equivalent of a writing slate? Well one possible answer is Hwb. Continue reading
Councillor Paul Miller, leader of the Labour group on the council, says he wants the public consultation to stop before it starts and the Council to go back to the drawing board.
As the schools for the future research teams begin unearthing the reality of school finances and government policy, it’s become clear that the current council proposal for turning Ysgol Dewi Sant into an 11-16 school, would create a school too small to survive.
In the week running up to the Schools for the Future launch a crucial Welsh Govenment report was released which will transform the education curriculum in Wales. It’s called “Successful Futures”, which afterall is what we’re all working towards, and shows the direction of government thinking against which our community vision will be judged.
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