Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:58 pm on 8 July 2020.
Thank you very much, Rhianon. The progression code, Welsh Ministers will have to produce as a result of this. Our progression steps are already out there in the public domain and this is to give an assurance of a national approach for where we would expect children to be, because whilst of course we want to respect individual institutions in designing their curriculum, we have to have assurance that children will be moving forward and the expectations of what children can do are the same across a national basis.
With regard to global citizenship, again, this is one of the four purposes that are laid out within the Bill. Forgive me, I did not answer Mr Reckless's question about modern foreign languages. In answering Siân Gwenllian—. In opening the statement today, I said that I hope children will become at least bilingual citizens. The curriculum actually is very clear about our expectations of bringing foreign languages into primary schools on a consistent basis. Some of our primary schools already do that, and they do it very well, but actually this tries to address some of the challenges that we undoubtedly have in MFL take-up—and there's no point my pretending we haven't got a challenge in MFL take-up, certainly at 14, 16 and 18. This ability to bring that learning earlier on into a child's life is one way in which we hope to address that deficit. Learning a foreign language is one of the ways in which we can develop our understanding of the world around us and to become that global citizen.