Thank you, Darren. You’re quite right; PISA and Estyn raised concerns about what we’re doing for our more able and talented children. We need to ensure that our teachers are equipped with the ability to differentiate within the classroom so that they are able to provide lessons in a way that stretches our more able and talented.

Working closely with my colleague, the Minister for Lifelong Learning and Welsh Language, we are supporting the Seren network. Only this morning, on a visit to Merthyr College, I met a number of young people from Merthyr who were studying A-levels at the college who were part of that Seren programme, who have ambitions to go and study veterinary science and medicine later on in life and are receiving the additional support that they need to make those things happen for them.

We have also refined our accountability and our performance measures for schools. One of the unintended consequences of a heavy focus on level 2+ inclusive has been to concentrate on those pupils and, quite rightly, to move them from a D to a C grade, but that has had consequences for our A* and our A and our B performance. We have changed that. We now use capped point scores as well as level 2+, so that schools have to concentrate on ensuring that each individual pupil reaches their full potential.