SCHOOLS across Wales will have the opportunity to be part of a national celebration this November as the environmental education programme Eco- Schools celebrates its 20th anniversary. Eco-Schools is run in Wales by environmental...
STAFF from a leading house builder in Swansea caused Halloween havoc on Friday (Oct 31) when they donned spooky outfits and held a pumpkin carving competition to raise vital funds for...
PLANS for Wales only GCSEs have been criticised by the Leader of the Welsh Conservatives. The changes are planned from next September. The new qualifications include two new GCSEs in maths, new...
PLAID CYMRU recently made a Freedom of Information request that uncovered, what they believe, is a ‘piecemeal’ approach to new fines introduced for truancy. The fines were instigated by the Welsh...
EDUCATION charity Shakespeare Schools Festival is set to mark Shakespeare’s 450th birthday year by throwing him the biggest party he has ever seen. The charity’s largest festival to date will see 35,000...
An inspector calls PEMBROKESHIRE’s Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme has been highly praised in a recent inspection. Assessors of the prestigious award scheme joined a group of 32 Gold Award aspiring Pembrokeshire youngsters...
PRIMARY school children, whose first language is English, and who attend Welsh-medium schools are less likely to be top performers in core subjects. The figures were obtained by the BBC Wales show,...
UK EDUCATION SECRETARY, Nicky Morgan, has set out an agenda aimed at helping teachers overcome what many believe, in and out of the profession, to be an unrealistic workload. The promise to...
P E M B R O K E S H I R E COLLEGE is building a reputation of attracting females into vocational courses that are traditionally taken by males....
OVER 100 pupils in Pembrokeshire have taken part in a cutting-edge science festival. Youngsters from many schools across the County attended the second Pembrokeshire schools STEMFEST on Saturday. Held at the Bridge Innovation Centre...
LLANDOVERY COLLEGE this week welcomed the new National Director of the Boarding Schools Association Robin Fletcher, along with several boarding school headmasters and mistresses, to a day of debate on the future of...
RELATIVES of an RAF airman who died with five colleagues in a wartime air accident in the Preseli Hills visited the crash site on the 70th anniversary. Brian Strawbridge and his...