Thank you, Cabinet Secretary, for your statement. I should probably declare an interest as a school governor at the beginning here. It is a very broad-ranging statement and I’ll try and be precise, and I’m sure the Deputy Presiding Officer will tell me if I’m not.

You make early reference to the pioneer schools in your statement. A number of teachers and schools who are part of the pioneer schools projects are reporting, actually, that some of them were unaware of their own involvement. Now, I’d like to ask the Cabinet Secretary what work she is doing to ensure that all those tasked with developing the new arrangements are fully engaged and supported through this process. The time frame, of course, from when the pioneer schools report back on their development work to the point at which the new curriculum will be statutory in Wales won’t leave a lot of room for debate. So, what undertaking will the Cabinet Secretary give to ensure that there is a full consultation with the wider teaching profession to ensure that this process isn’t rushed through, because I think some people are feeling the pressure in that respect?

On teachers’ training, a third of secondary teacher training places were not filled in 2015-16. In fact, the recruitment target hasn’t been met for any of the past six years with the shortfall growing over that period. While this may not have an immediate effect or be a problem for vacancies, the trend clearly suggests that it is something that warrants attention. So, what assessment has the Cabinet Secretary made of why this failure to recruit is taking place, and what can be done to address it in future? Because, one of the areas, I think, that is part of the problem is workload, and the effect maybe that that is having on people’s perception of the appeal of teaching as a profession. The Liberal Democrat manifesto gave a commitment, of course, to establishing an annual teachers’ workload survey. There’s no reference to that here, but maybe the Cabinet Secretary could comment on whether you intend to introduce this during this Assembly term.

The role of the Education Workforce Council is key. I’d imagine that there are many aspects of this statement where their role is relevant, although there’s no reference to them particularly in this statement. Plaid Cymru and the Liberal Democrats, to differing extents, proposed to extend and broaden their remit. I was just wondering whether that is your intention and what role you see them playing in some of the initiatives that you have mentioned.

There is a danger of course—I counted, I think, two strategies and at least one new academy in your statement—that this could be seen as more initiatives, in what I’m sure you’ll be aware is an already ‘initiatived-out’ sector, maybe. So, what assurances can you give the sector that this won’t actually add to the burden, and that in fact it is all part of an effort to reduce the burden that, for some people, is on the teaching profession at the moment?

Rwy’n croesawu’n fawr iawn y ffaith bod y Llywodraeth am edrych i ddatblygu strategaeth genedlaethol ar ysgolion bach a gwledig. Rwy’n cyd-fynd â’r Gweinidog fod ffedereiddio’n sicr yn cynnig model ac opsiwn amgen mewn sawl cyd-destun i fynd i’r afael â rhai o’r heriau sy’n wynebu nifer o’n hysgolion ni. Ond, a gaf ofyn yng nghyd-destun y strategaeth ar ysgolion bach a gwledig a fydd y strategaeth yn newid y pwyslais, gormodol yn nhyb rhai, sydd yna ar hyn o bryd ar lefydd gwag mewn ysgolion? Neu, a fydd ffactorau llefydd gwag mewn ysgolion yn dal yn ganolog i’r strategaeth newydd? Mi fyddai hynny o ddiddordeb i nifer, rwy’n siŵr.

Yn olaf, rŷch chi’n sôn am dargedu adnoddau at addysg Gymraeg—eto, rhywbeth y byddwn i’n hapus iawn i’w gefnogi—ond a fyddwch chi hefyd, felly, yn disgwyl cynnydd yn erbyn nodau, amcanion a thargedau eich strategaeth addysg cyfrwng Gymraeg chi fel Llywodraeth? Yn wir, a fyddwch chi’n mynd ati i ddiwygio ac i gryfhau hwnnw yn wyneb eich bwriad chi i dargedu adnoddau tuag at addysg Gymraeg? Yn wir, pa fwriad sydd gan y Llywodraeth i weithio gydag awdurdodau lleol i symud at bwyslais mwy rhagweithiol o safbwynt datblygu addysg Gymraeg ac, efallai, dysgu gwersi ac efelychu’r gwaith sydd yn digwydd yng Ngwynedd, ac yn fwy diweddar, yn rhywle fel sir Gaerfyrddin?