Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 1:57 pm on 10 May 2017.
Paul, thank you very much for highlighting that good practice that happens in your area. As you know, because of concerns regarding the standards of education in Pembrokeshire, particularly the inability of Pembrokeshire’s high schools to improve their level 2-plus attainment rates as quickly as the Welsh average, the regional consortium has recently deployed additional advisory support into the county of Pembrokeshire. Estyn have carried out a case conference in the county of Pembrokeshire to try and impress upon the council and the local education authority the measures that they feel are necessary for the council to take to improve standards. But it is clear such schemes as that, where we can increase pupils’ literacy within the primary school sector, bode well for their ability to access the curriculum later on, and I would hope and expect that the regional consortia are learning from good practice and are utilising the resources that they have from the education improvement grant to ensure that where programmes are successful, they are replicated.