2026 Welsh A-Level Promotional Materials

This resource is designed to support GCSE and A‑Level learners in recognising the components of a compelling news story lead. It is an interactive digital tool through which users can learn from one of Wales’s leading journalists, Will Hayward, as well as Reach digital journalist Ben Peris and Hannah Williams, Editor of Tafod, Cardiff University, 2025/26. Instructions are provided at each stage on how to use the resource effectively.

A music video that was commissioned by the Welsh Music Videos project, Aberystwyth University and supported by the Coleg Cymraeg. The resource is for all to enjoy by one of Wales’ most exciting young bands.

Sioned Dafydd, Sgorio - This conversation with the sports presenter, Sioned Dafydd, is for anyone who is interested in working in the sports communication sector. Sioned presents programmes and items on S4C's 'Sgorio' and on Sky Sport. She talks to Dr Non Vaughan Williams, senior lecturer in Media and Communication at Swansea University, about how the Welsh language (and studying through the medium of Welsh at university) has opened doors for her in the industry, her experience of being a sports female presenter, including the highlights and challenges of the job. Sport and Media Discussion - Gabriella Jukes, presenter on Sky Sport, international swimmer Medi Roberts, and Cathy Williams, Head of Communications and Engagement, Team Wales Commonwealth Games 2026. The panel discusses the challenges of preparing and presenting on the media and social media, and also of being on the other side of the discussion when dealing with the press and media as an athlete, content producer and as head of communications. They’re in discussion with Andrew Weeks, Lecturer at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media, and Culture  

The 2025 Edward Lhuyd Annual Lecture of the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol and the Learned Society of Wales was delivered by Professor Jane Aaron at Pontio, Bangor, on 18 November 2025. As well as analysing literature concerned with the relationship between people and the environment, ecocriticism has a political aim: to deepen our historical understanding of the causes of the current environmental crisis and to strengthen our resolve to resist those who seek to dismiss it. This lecture considers the poetic work of some nineteenth-century Welsh writers whose lives were transformed by the industrial revolution, and ask whether their response to the loss of greenery carries a message for us today. Jane Aaron is Emerita Professor in the School of Humanities at the University of South Wales and author of Pur fel y Dur: Y Gymraes yn Llên Menywod y Bedwaredd Ganrif ar Bymtheg, which won the Ellis Griffith Memorial Prize in 1999; Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing in Wales, which won the Roland Mathias Prize in 2009; the volume Welsh Gothic (2013); and her biography Cranogwen, which won the Wales Book of the Year Award in the Creative Non-Fiction category in 2024.