This is a valuable opportunity to hear a panel of experts and familiar faces discuss the early and medieval poetry of Aneirin, Talieisin and Dafydd ap Gwilym.  The panel includes Professor Jerry Hunter, Dr Aled Llion Jones, and Professor Peredur Lynch, Bangor University. Specifically suitable for year 13 learners who are studying for their Unit 5 Welsh exam, but of wider interest as well. A session recorded in Pontio, Bangor, during May 2023, in collaboration between Bangor University's Department of Welsh and Pontio. Sponsored by the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol. Session in Welsh. Looking for more resources? Watch our Ar-lên study sessions available here or here.

This resource has been prepared for learners studying for the Level 2 qualification Care, Play, Learning, and Child Development: Practice and Theory and Unit 001 Principles and Values of Care, Play, Learning and Child Development (ages 0-19). Some of the major principles behind Unit 001 are introduced through case studies, that is 4 stories of young children attending early childhood provision, such as nursery or a cylch meithrin. Here they are: Deio who is 3 years old and has epilepsy. Hanna who is 4 years old and has diabetes. Eshaal who is 3 years old and has allergies. Caio who is three and a half years old and has autism. The studies offer a view of the children through the lens of themes relevant to Deio, Hanna, Eshaal, and Caio – and to every child in fact. These themes – the big principles – are: Children's rights Inclusion Equality of opportunity The most important thing, of course, in any provision is to ensure that all children are safe, but children's conditions should not interfere with their right to have fun, to learn, to enjoy the company of other children, to adventure in the open air... These major principles are framed in legislation such as: the Children Act 1989 and 2004, the Equality Act 2010, the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015. And there are policies and guidelines such as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Welsh Government's Seven Core Aims. These will be a thread through the 4 case studies and they apply to Deio, Hanna, Eshaal, and Cai and yet, they are important to all children.

Resources from Dr Alex Lovell, Swansea University to assist with the skill of Translanguaging, which is part of the Welsh Second Language AS/A Level specification (U2 Unit 5, Section B). Resources include: Language Workshop: Translanguaging - video lecture Translanguaging Language Workshop PowerPoint slides Translanguaging worksheet The resources: consider what 'translanguaging' is and what are the benefits? discuss how to write an effective translanguage analyze a good example includes tasks to further practice translanguaging skills Resources created by the Department of Welsh, Swansea University, with funding from the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol.

This Research conference will be held in hybrid form again this year, on 30 June, with a face-to-face audience at the National Library in Aberystwyth, as well as a live broadcast to a virtual audience. You can find more information about the conference in the Coleg Cymraeg events calendar.  

The aim of the 'Celf a Dylunio ar y Map’ is to offer a unique opportunity for Welsh-medium Art and Design students to come together in one place to share and discuss their work and to benefit from the experience of artists and others who work in the industry.  The theme of the festival was 'Reinterpreting Tradition'.  The below video gives a flavour of the festival. 

The purpose of this resource is to help develop confidence to work bilingually. A series of tasks will introduce skills such as: drafting an e-mail preparing a CV giving a presentation in Welsh. This resource was developed by Pembrokeshire College.

Poor mental health and well-being is an unprecedented problem among children today. Seligman (2011) proposes that well-being and happiness should be supported through positive psychology approaches. The PERMA-profiler (Positive emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishments/Achievements) (Butler and Kern 2015) requires individuals to self-assess levels of ‘flourishing’. This pilot project aimed to assess the value of the PERMA-profiler as a tool to identify the general mental health and well-being of year 7 pupils in three secondary schools. Following the first questionnaire, teachers were offered general class design strategies before pupils were reassessed at the end of the term. Results suggest the value of a self-assessment tool in identifying the overall levels of pupils’ mental health and well-being and also the early identification of individuals who may experience subsequent difficulties.

These live revision webinars are organized by the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol for year 12 and 13 students studying AS / A Level Welsh (First Language). The sessions will be hosted by lecturers from the Welsh departments of Bangor, Aberystwyth, Swansea and Cardiff universities and other academics, with the aim of enhancing your understanding of some of the literature topics you are studying in class. The sessions will be held in Welsh through Zoom between 4.30-5.30pm on Wednesday afternoons, with the first session on Wednesday 1 March 2023. Timetable: 1 Mawrth 2023: Dan Gadarn Goncrit (Mihangel Morgan), Dr Miriam Elin Jones, Prifysgol Abertawe (Bl.13) 8 Mawrth 2023: Mis Mai a Mis Tachwedd (Dafydd ap Gwilym), Iestyn Tyne (Bl.13) 15 Mawrth 2023: Blasu (Manon Steffan Ros), Dr Manon Wynn Davies (Bl.13) 23 Mawrth 2023: Un Nos Ola Leuad (Caradog Pritchard), Dr Siwan Rosser, Prifysgol Caerdydd (Bl.13) *Dydd Iau* 29 Mawrth 2023: Y Gymraeg mewn cyd-destun, Gruffydd Rhys Davies, Prifysgol Aberystwyth (Bl.13) 19 Ebrill 2023: 'Aneirin' (Iwan Llwyd), Dr Elis Dafydd, Prifysgol Bangor (Bl.12) 26 Ebrill 2023: 'Preseli' (Waldo Williams), Dr Elan Grug Muse (Bl.12) 3 Mai 2023: Ymarfer Papur Gramadeg, Yr Athro Peredur Lynch, Prifysgol Bangor (Bl.12)   The link for the event will be emailed to you on the day or the day before. Pupils, students, teachers and student teachers welcome. You'll be able to contribute or ask questions using the chat. Remember to follow the @CymraegCCC Twitter account and Instagram @instagymraeg account for more information and news about Welsh as a Subject. To register, click on the registration form link below:

Public messages use a variety of methods to encourage sustainable behaviour (i.e. pro-environmental behaviour), including emphasizing the intrinsic value of nature (the value of nature beyond its usefulness to people) and the relational value of nature (the value of people’s relationship with nature). In this study, we present the results of a survey of adults in the United Kingdom (n = 499) who completed questionnaires that reflected the intrinsic value of nature (intrinsic value beliefs and biospheric values) and two that reflected the relational value of nature (connectedness to nature and empathy towards nature). The sample reported that they perform low-cost behaviour very often (e.g. taking short showers), consumption behaviour less often (e.g. buying a product with less packaging material), and committed behaviour very rarely (e.g. participating in conservation work). No variable predicted low-cost behaviours. Biospheric values and connectedness to nature were found to predict consumption behaviour. Only the relational value beliefs (connectedness and empathy) predicted committed behaviour. The results have implications for presenting environmental messages from the point of view of the intrinsic and relational value of nature. Recommendations are made for future work in this area.

Interested in studying Mathematics at University? Want to get a glimpse of life as a Maths student and find out what career a Maths degree could lead to? This is your chance to find out more, get a taster of some modules and ask lecturers and alumni your questions!  Join us in March for a series of live online Maths workshops. Thursday 9 March 2023, 7pm – Aberystwyth University.  Thursday 16 March 2023, 7pm – Cardiff University. Monday 19 June, 09:30 am - Employability If you have any questions please contact l.rees@colegcymraeg.ac.uk.

The Coleg presents several awards to brilliant individuals during the year, either for outstanding work, achievement or contribution in further education colleges, universities, and apprenticeship settings. Would you like to nominate someone who has made a difference in your organisation? The Awards Night offers a great opportunity to recognize their work and contribution. These prizes are awarded by a panel of Coleg officers and external members, and will be presented to the winners at the Coleg’s Awards Night in June 2023. The opportunity to nominate individuals for these awards is now OPEN! You can submit your nominations using the nomination form below. The deadline for submitting nominations is midday, 10 March 2023.  Further information about the individual awards can be found below.

This is a collection of tasks that can be used to develop and assess the language skills of education practitioners against the Language Competency Framework for Education Practitioners. The collection includes tasks for each skill and each level within the Framework.  There is a PDF booklet for each level, containing all of the tasks for that selected level. In addition, the tasks are available to download individually in the form of Word documents. If the links do not open the document in a new tab, then the document will have downloaded (look in the downloads folder on your computer).