The City of Cardiff Council has welcomed this week’s Welsh Government Schools Challenge Cymru launch.
The new scheme will enhance the plans that are already in place as the six Cardiff schools to benefit from the initiative are in line with the council’s education priorities for the city.
A feature of School Challenge Cymru is linking schools together to share expertise, which Cardiff has already experienced after Cardiff High School and Willows High School started to forge close links in early 2013. That partnership has shown that both schools can benefit and learn from each other as they have found ways to meet a very different set of challenges and priorities.
Cabinet Member for Education and Skills, Cllr Julia Magill said: “I am delighted to see Schools Challenge Cymru as part of the education scene in Cardiff. It is important that the council, the Regional Consortium and Welsh Government work together in this evidence based way to get the conditions right to make significant improvements in education in Cardiff and the rest of Wales. Education is a key priority for Cardiff and the improvements we need to make have been included in our Education Development Plan and Corporate Plan. The measures announced by the Welsh Government this week as part of School Challenge Cymru will be an added dimension to the work being done to put our plans into action.”
The six schools in Cardiff that will receive support from the Schools Challenge Cymru initiative are Eastern High, St. Illtyd’s Catholic High School, Willows High School, Cantonian High School, Michaelston Community College and Glyn Derw High School.
