Posts tagged ‘schools’
At the Children, Young People and Learning Overview and Scrutiny Board meeting on Monday (5th Dec) Councillor looked at the performance data from across schools in Swansea, concentrating on educational attainment, school exclusions, attendance and employment training. Councillors were pleased to find: the overall trend for level 2 threshold indicator and core subject indicator is upward. that progress with [...]
The Children, Young People and Learning Overview and Scrutiny Board are in the progress of reviewing the role of Teaching Assistants across the primary sector in schools in Swansea. Councillors chose this subject at a Board meeting in June and have started their investigations with a visit to a small rural primary school speaking to the [...]
At their meeting last week, the Children, Young People & Learning Overview & Scrutiny Board spoke to Head Teachers and Chair’s of Governors from four Swansea schools about their ESTYN inspection reports. As I’m sure you know, every school gets inspected by ESTYN and, following the inspection, a report is published and an action plan is produced [...]
Today the Children, Young People and Learning Overview & Scrutiny Board met to consider their work plan for the year. To provide the context for this they had a highly informative presentation which was given jointly by Richard Parry, the Corporate Director (Education), Cllr Mary Jones, Lead Cabinet Member for Children and Young People, and Cllr [...]
