Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:52 pm on 29 January 2019.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:52, 29 January 2019

I do believe that those points are well understood amongst those people who are responsible for designing the new curriculum. In that service held in Cardiff City Hall on Friday, amongst the most moving parts of a moving service were the two young people from Wales who had visited Auschwitz as part of a programme run by the Welsh Government and who came back to reflect to the rest of us the lessons that they felt that they had learnt, and to say to us as well how they were using those lessons to talk to other young people in their own age range and in their own institutions about the effect that that experience had had on them.

There'll be other people, I know, around the Chamber, who've made the same visit; I did myself some years ago. It was an overwhelming experience in many ways; it was very hard just to take in the nature of what you saw in front of you and to try to make sense of what you were seeing and to think of what lessons we all need to draw from it. Making sure that we have young people in Wales who continue to do that and to help the rest of us to draw those lessons, I think, is a demonstration of the way that these things are taken seriously in the education system in Wales and of our determination that they will continue to be so.