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UK CURRICULUM & LEARNING


informal and will more broadly relate to expectations at the ages of five, eight, 11, 14 and 16. The system has been designed to recognise the fact that pupils develop at different rates. The curriculum will be organised into six areas of learning and experience: expressive arts; health and wellbeing; humanities; languages, literacy and communication; maths and numeracy; and science and technology.


The school years follow the same pattern as in England: reception, then Years 1–6 at primary school and Years 7–11 (or Years 7–13) at secondary school. As in England, children start reception in the September before their fifth birthday. Pupils in Wales can leave school on the last Friday in June, as long as they will be 16 by the end of the summer holidays.


The school year runs from the start of September until the third week of July.


Children take National Reading and Numeracy Tests every


year from Year 2 to Year 9. Statutory teacher assessments take place at the end of Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3, as in England, but students do not take Key Stage 2 National Curriculum Tests (also know as SATs).


Schools are inspected by Estyn, the education and training inspectorate for Wales, at least every six years, looking at performance and prospects for improvement. They are awarded a score from 1 (outstanding) to 5 (poor).


WELSH LANGUAGE Welsh is taught as part of the curriculum in all schools up to the age of 16; however, it is not compulsory for pupils to take Welsh at GCSE.


English-medium schools teach children in English but will teach some lessons in Welsh. In 1999, Welsh as a second language became compulsory for all children up to Key Stage 4. The majority of children attend English-medium schools, learning Welsh as a second language. Welsh-medium schools teach children in Welsh and provide pupils with a good grounding in English language skills, although they are not obliged to teach English in Years 1 and 2. While the English state-school system has diversified over the past few years, the Welsh system has remained committed to comprehensives. The Welsh Government has rejected the English academy system, and all grammar schools in Wales were converted into comprehensive schools in the 1970s.


QUALIFICATIONS


Despite the forthcoming introduction of the new curriculum, pupils in Wales still take GCSEs at the end of Year 11, AS Levels at the end of Year 12 and A Levels at the end of Year 13. For now, GCSEs in Wales are retaining the alphabetical grading system rather than converting to the new numerical grading that began rolling out across England in summer 2017.


The AS Level will remain embedded in the A Level system (unlike in England, where the AS qualification has been decoupled from the new A Level system), and so the AS will continue to count towards the final A Level mark. All the Cambridge Assessment International Examinations, such as the IGCSE, the International AS and A Level, and the Pre-U, are certified to be taught in Wales. The IB is also becoming increasingly popular in independent Welsh schools. The WJEC is a Welsh examination board that provides


Welsh Government-regulated qualifications for all state schools and colleges in Wales. It also offers qualifications in England and Northern Ireland through its Eduqas subsidiary, established to reflect the increasing divergence of the Welsh and English systems.


The WJEC is also the awarding organisation for the Welsh Baccalaureate, which is delivered at National/Foundation (Key Stage 4), Foundation (post-16), National (post-16) and Advanced levels.


INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS IN WALES There are over 70 private schools in Wales, several of which include boarding options. Cardiff Sixth Form College is an independent day and boarding school for students aged 16 to 19. In 2017, 99 per cent of its students obtained A*–B grades at A Level and the college attracts students from around the world. “There are many reasons for international families to


move to Wales,” explains Henrietta Lightwood, the College’s group director of admissions and marketing. “Cardiff is a small and safe capital city and attracts international sporting and cultural events to some of its great arenas. It is home to the Welsh National Opera, St David’s Hall as well as the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, making it attractive to musicians and actors from around the globe.


“This year 21 per cent of our students have offers for Oxford or Cambridge universities. As well as our academic programme, we offer international and bi-annual work experience, extra-curricular activities and an 18 month careers programme designed to equip our students with transferable skills not only for university but life beyond.”


FURTHER EDUCATION


There are ten universities and 15 further-education colleges and institutions in Wales, although many pupils choose to cross the border to universities in England. A Welsh Government subsidy means that Welsh students do not have to pay full university fees (on average £9,188 per year in England). Currently, Welsh students pay around £4,300 wherever in the UK they attend university.


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