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Alex Lovell

@alexaddysg.bsky.social

Tad i Alys a gŵr i Jade. PhD on L2 Welsh in education. Interests in Education, L2 Welsh, WM education, CLIL, WL continuum. My own opinions.

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Latest posts by alexaddysg.bsky.social on Bluesky

As a resident, I’m extremely pleased about this.

There is a main road in Chepstow where it’s dangerous to cross. As a pedestrian it feels noticeably safer with cars travelling at a slower speed.

We need to prioritise people and the planet.

@paulmatthews67.bsky.social

18.02.2025 06:41 — 👍 32    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

As a school Governing Body, we have developed our programme of professional learning alongside and complementary to the excellent opportunities that the EAS provides. This enables us to develop our understanding of and explore things that are important to us as a school.

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30.01.2025 09:53 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Grants | Qualifications Wales Responsible for the recognition of awarding bodies and the review and approval of non-degree qualifications in Wales

For more information, go to the QW Grants webpage: qualifications.wales/en/informati...

#Cymraeg #DewisIBawb #ChoiceForAll

13.01.2025 12:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The purpose of this grant is to support recognised awarding bodies with making qualifications regulated by Qualifications Wales available to learners in #Cymraeg.

13.01.2025 12:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Welsh Language Support Grant The Welsh Language Support Grant is designed to assist all recognised awarding bodies in enabling learners to take regulated qualifications through the medium of Welsh. The 2025/26 application window ...

📢 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬! 📢

The application process for the 2025-2026 Welsh Language Support Grant is now open! 📝

𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 📅 Midnight on 28 February 2025 ⏰

tinyurl.com/bdzkxf4

13.01.2025 12:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is sad news for our media landscape. The pod has produced some of the best content, discussion and challenge on a breadth of important topics for Wales. Wishing the team Blwyddyn Newydd Dda and the very best with their next chapter.

01.01.2025 12:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ffan mowr o For Wales... Ac wedi dysgu eitha tipyn o'r Pumed Llawr. Mae Hiraeth yn parhau i fod yn wych ac o ran pod o bersbectif y DU mae rhai o'r gweisteion ar The Rest is Money wedi bod o safon uchel yn ddiweddar.

28.12.2024 17:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales Hiraeth - Welsh Politics · Episode

🚨NEW POD🚨
Friend of the pod @sarahlethbridge.bsky.social of @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social hosts a chat with @lauramcallister30.bsky.social & Dr Rowan Williams reflecting on the work of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales. #Wales #Cymru
open.spotify.com/episode/2bf8...

28.12.2024 12:19 — 👍 15    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

@hiraethpod.bsky.social

28.12.2024 14:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

An enlightening listen which hints at important questions for Welsh in education today and tomorrow, such as 'why doesn't education currently create Welsh speakers/users?' and 'to what extent can the education system alone create new speakers?'

A pod on Welsh in education could be a neat follow up

28.12.2024 14:46 — 👍 7    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0
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These more favourable attitudes, it posits, in turn help to ensure that Welsh is modeled positively to speakers' children and transmitted within families to the next generation - a key pillar of success for achieving WG's Cymraeg 2050 ambition.

Open access:
lnkd.in/e4jxYwJr

20.12.2024 12:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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An interesting paper on implicit/explicit language attitudes to Welsh, with a suggestion that there is a link between higher/early exposure to Welsh (from primary school age) and more favourable implicit attitudes to the language.

20.12.2024 12:51 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Newport Late Immersion / Trochi Hwyr Casnewydd
YouTube video by Rhieni dros Addysg Gymraeg Newport Late Immersion / Trochi Hwyr Casnewydd

This is a really lovely set of stories about late immersion in Casnewydd / Newport. We tend to think of parents making a choice of school language at 3 or 4, but there are plenty of opportunities for children to join Welsh language education at older ages www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGnv...

18.12.2024 19:25 — 👍 18    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

But as I'm getting older I'm realising that my identity is something I feel not what others prescribe to me.

More on Welshness through the prism of language - fascinating!

12.12.2024 18:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

@willhaycardiff.bsky.social Absolutely loving the #ForWalesSeeWales podcast. The recent pod on Welshness and Mel's perspective in particular was fascinating (but saddening). I've struggled with Welshness having been brought up in South East Wales and learning Welsh as a second language. (1/2)

12.12.2024 18:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Lansio prawf sillafu Cymraeg safonedig am ddim i fonitro cynnydd sillafu plant Lansiwyd prawf sillafu Cymraeg safonedig yn ddiweddar gan academyddion o Brifysgol Caerdydd.

Mae ymchwilwyr o Ysgol y Gymraeg, Ysgol Seicoleg ac Ysgol Mathemateg Prifysgol Caerdydd wedi lansio prawf sillafu Cymraeg safonedig i fonitro cynnydd sillafu plant. Darllenwch ragor am y prosiect yma ⤵️ www.cardiff.ac.uk/cy/news/view...

24.11.2024 11:07 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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