Jeremy Miles: Diolch, Llywydd, a diolch i bawb am eu cyfraniadau i'r ddadl heddiw. Mae'r ddadl wedi bod yn gyfle pwysig i Aelodau allu mynegi barn ar yr adroddiad blynyddol. Fel mae mwy nag un cyfrannwr wedi'i ddweud, mae addysg yng Nghymru yn newid, ac rŷm ni'n gweithredu diwygiadau mawr o ran y cwricwlwm ac anghenion dysgu ychwanegol ac mewn ffyrdd eraill hefyd. Mae yna nifer o heriau o ran sut rŷm...
Jeremy Miles: Rwy'n cytuno, Llywydd, bod hyn yn cynnwys nifer o'r eitemau a godwyd gan yr Aelodau heddiw. Soniodd Gareth Davies am bwysigrwydd buddsoddi mewn llefaredd, ac er fy mod yn anghytuno ag ef fod yr ateb i hynny yn syml mewn dull polisi o ymdrin â mygydau, ac o'r farn bod yr heriau yn llawer, llawer mwy dwys na hynny, soniais yn fy sylwadau agoriadol am y buddsoddiad yr ydym ni'n ei wneud mewn...
Jeremy Miles: Wel, dyna bwynt pwysig iawn. Mae'n rhan o'n trafodaethau parhaus gyda'r arolygiaeth. Bydd yn gwybod bod y diwygiadau y mae'r arolygiaeth wedi ymgymryd â nhw yng Nghymru wedi cael gwared ar y pwyslais atebolrwydd mewn ysgolion o'r dyfarniad unigol, crynodol hwnnw, sef lle mae rhai o'r tensiynau, yn aml, wedi codi, ac rydym ni, rwy'n credu, wedi gweld rhai o ganlyniadau hynny mewn mannau...
Jeremy Miles: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Ddeuddeg mis yn ôl, fe gyflwynais i gyfres o gamau i'n rhoi ni ar ben ffordd wrth daclo effaith tlodi ar gyrhaeddiad addysgol. Mae bylchau cyrhaeddiad rhwng plant a phobl ifanc mewn ysgolion cynradd ac yng nghyfnod allweddol 3 sy'n cael eu heffeithio gan dlodi wedi lleihau dros amser. Mae'r cynnydd hwnnw wedi bod yn llai cyson ar gyfer dysgwyr ar lefel TGAU, ac mae...
Jeremy Miles: Dirprwy Lywydd, there is always more to learn. Over the last 12 months, we've looked across the UK and internationally to inform policy, drawing on the expertise of organisations like the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the Education Endowment Foundation. As I set out last year, we know from research and inspection evidence that schools that couple effective...
Jeremy Miles: I gloi, hoffwn i ailadrodd yr ymrwymiad a wnes i'r llynedd: mae pob un plentyn yng Nghymru yn haeddu safonau a dyheadau uchel. Cyhoeddais i'r map trywydd i gyflawni hynny'r wythnos diwethaf, a heddiw, rwyf i wedi rhoi diweddariad i chi ar rai camau penodol i fynd i'r afael gydag effaith tlodi. Fyddwn ni ddim yn dewis rhwng tegwch a rhagoriaeth yn ein hysgolion ni—rhaid inni gyflawni'r ddau beth.
Jeremy Miles: I thank the Member for her observations and the questions that she has asked. She makes an important point, I think, about the ability of schools on their own to address the full impact of poverty on educational attainment. Schools are in their communities, they're in their society, and there are things that schools can do, and there are things that schools can't do, in terms of addressing...
Jeremy Miles: Well, the Member made an important point about what are the biggest challenges, and I think possibly the biggest challenge that schools face is making sure that young people are in school. There are obviously very high levels of absence, which many, many schools are reporting. And the Member asked an important question about what the investment into community-focused schools and the family...
Jeremy Miles: I think the Member is absolutely right to mention the importance of food as part of the summer food and fun programme—it's sometimes called 'food and fun', in some parts of Wales. I share with her her passion for making sure that schools teach young people about the whole range of purposes of food, so nutrition, obviously, but eating together. You could also teach large parts of the...
Jeremy Miles: I thank John Griffiths, and I know of his commitment to the principle of community-focused schools, not least because of the successes in his particular area of many schools in achieving that, and I think he just highlights two important themes in what he has just said. Firstly, that role of school staff connecting with families around a range of issues, which might not be directly around the...
Jeremy Miles: I thank Vikki Howells for those two questions. On the first question, one of the aspects of the job, which is a great pleasure actually, is being able to visit the initial teacher education partnerships across Wales, both remotely in the past, but now also in person, and talk to the cohort of students going through the postgraduate certificate in education about their experiences and...
Jeremy Miles: The Member makes a series of very important points. She talked about the importance of children's own experience of schools, and I think that listening and the hearing of the voices of young people in this is very, very important. The £40 million capital that I announced recently is intended to enable schools to make the kinds of adaptations that schools sometimes do—to fence off areas, to...
Jeremy Miles: Diolch, Llywydd. Mae cael mynediad at adnoddau addysgol a deunyddiau ategol dwyieithog o safon uchel yn ganolog i'n gweledigaeth a'n cenhadaeth ar gyfer addysg yng Nghymru. Bydd adnoddau addysgol o ansawdd uchel a wnaed yng Nghymru i Gymru yn gwella ansawdd y dysgu ac yn hybu dilyniant dysgwyr. Dyna pam, fis Mawrth y llynedd, y cyhoeddais fy mwriad i sefydlu cwmni yn benodol i oruchwylio'r...
Jeremy Miles: Mae gweithio gyda rhanddeiliaid o'r sectorau addysg, creadigol a chyhoeddus wedi bod, a bydd yn parhau i fod, yn hanfodol i ddarparu adnoddau addysgol a deunyddiau ategol 'gwnaed yng Nghymru'. Cynhaliwyd sgwrs rhwydwaith genedlaethol yn 2021, gyda ffocws ar ymarferwyr. Canlyniad hyn oedd athrawon yng Nghymru yn cyd-awduro canllaw adnoddau a gyhoeddwyd gennym ni fis Gorffennaf diwethaf. Bydd y...
Jeremy Miles: I thank the Member for that range of questions. I think some are more germane to the statement than others. I think it is important to avoid duplication. I think we achieve that principally by this company having an entirely different function from, for example, the consortia, which she mentioned in her question. But it's obviously a legitimate point for her to raise. I can assure her that...
Jeremy Miles: Wel, diolch i'r Aelod am y croeso mae hi wedi'i roi i'r datblygiad hwn. Dwi'n credu beth sy'n bwysig i gofio yw mai nid dyma gychwyn y broses i gomisiynu; mae comisiynu'n digwydd eisoes, ond byddwn i'n dweud, i fod yn gwbl onest, ei fod e'n digwydd mewn ffordd sydd yn anstrategol ar draws y system. Ond mae gennym ni gynllun i sicrhau ein bod ni'n symud dros amser o'r comisiynu sy'n digwydd,...
