Dear Parent/Carer, 

SwanseaMind will be delivering a zoom for parents on supporting their children with workload stress and emotional wellbeing on Tuesday 2nd February. Please see details attached. Kindest regards Mrs Altman

Please find attached a letter from Qualifications Wales outlining changes to the plans for GCSE, AS and A level assessments in the Spring and Summer terms 2021.

I previously wrote to you in December sharing the Welsh Government’s plans to cancel summer examinations in their normal format and replace them with the following:

• non-examination assessments such as coursework or oral assessment (where these are already part of the qualification)
• internal assessments which will be marked by teachers, and
• external assessments, marked by WJEC

Due to the current school closures, the internal assessments which were due to take place between February 22nd and April 23rd have been cancelled.

At this time the non-examination assessments and the external assessments will still go ahead. The external assessments are planned to take place between May 17th and June 29th.

As you can appreciate, things are changing constantly. I will share with you any information I receive from Qualifications Wales on the planned assessments.

I will communicate further with all students via a recorded assembly which will be placed on the Teams group for their year.

Rest assured that the staff at Morriston will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that all students are the best prepared they can be for the challenges that lie ahead to ensure they fulfil their potential.

Thank you for your continued support.

**- CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE LETTER FROM QUALIFICATIONS WALES – **

Current Dragons, Wales, Lions and former student Ross Moriarty is setting you the 2km challenge.

You must walk/run 2km as fast as possible and record your time and then email it to Miss Norkett- [email protected] .

The winner will receive a signed Wales shirt.

You can record your times and distance through the app “Strava” on your mobile phones( free to download). Take a picture and email your times to Miss Norkett.

Happy new year to all our students and parents. I have waited until today to write to you in the hope that I would have more information and clarity regarding how school will operate this half term.

Today the Education Minister for wales has announced that students will continue to stay home and learn remotely until at least the 29th January

Download the letter to read more…

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As you will already be aware, the Swansea approach to returning to schools in January had been revised, with us delaying the return to face-to-face learning until 11 January at the earliest. Last night the Welsh Government, in consultation with the WLGA and Colegau Cymru, has agreed that all schools, colleges and independent schools should move to online learning until  January 18th.  Open the document to read more…

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