Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 2:00 pm on 2 November 2016.
Thanks. The Wales Touch Association are the junior European champions; they won at the championship in the summer. The under-18s have won the championship three years running, which is amazing. It’s a great sport to improve handling skills; and it’s big in the southern hemisphere. My question, really, is about the WJEC, and I’m wondering if you could possibly help out. Touch rugby is being taken out of the subjects that pupils can choose for GCSE, and it doesn’t seem to make sense. I had the privilege, actually, of playing a game of touch recently with the kids, and it’s great, you’ve got girls and boys mixing in, a great standard, a lot of fun, and it really should be a sport available for GCSE, in my opinion. If you could look into it, I’d be very grateful.