Issue - meetings

To present the Quarter 2 Monitoring Report – GwE Regional Business Plan 2022-2023 to the Joint Committee.

To accept and approve the Quarter 2 Monitoring Report - GwE 2022-23 Regional Business Plan to the Joint Committee

The report was submitted by the Managing Director of GwE, providing an illustration of activity from July to September.  It was confirmed that discussions had taken place on the curriculum, that the support work was continuing and that schools were willing to share where they had reached thus far.

In terms of Leadership, the officer stated that many were attending the courses, and many of these could potentially be future leaders.

It was noted that it was pleasing to see the Llais Ni project coming to fruition.

Members enquired about the figures in terms of training and supporting clusters with the transformation.  The Managing Director of GwE noted that they were at a point of change.  There was a significant shortage of supply teachers, and although it was good to have the face-to-face meetings, presentations were now being recorded because of the pressure on small schools.  Different schools were at varying levels of maturity.

Reference was made to tracking progress and pupil assessment, specifically in respect of 360, and how this correlates with the new framework. The Managing Director of GwE confirmed that key work had been carried out in terms of pupils' skills and that the tracking work was continuing.

He referred to the Workshops on Evaluating and Capturing Impact, and noted the need to compile a paper on this and work with schools on the layout of the report, with the same principles running through them.

The Chair confirmed that it would be good to have input. It was confirmed that the Managing Director of GwE would submit a paper to the joint committee when more information was available. 

RESOLVED

To accept and approve the Quarter 2 Monitoring Report – GwE 2022-2023 Regional Business Plan.