As an organisation passionate about delivering Welsh-medium education to the children of Wales, Mudiad Meithrin is very proud to announce that an application to the Welsh Government for a £100,000 grant for the creation of educational resources in Welsh has been successful.
This additional funding will be used to produce a variety of resources chiefly aimed at Cylch Meithrin and day nursery childcare settings delivering funded early education and the Child Care Offer to children between 3 and 5 years of age. The new resources aim to promote further understanding within the childcare sector of the new Curriculum, so that settings are further enriched and more ready to deliver it.
These resources will include:
- training courses on language immersion
- a digital resource focused on ‘cynefin’ (habitat) and local stories taken from the folklore of the Mabinogi
- a series of podcasts on the new Curriculum
- cartoon resources
- digital keep fit resources
- a series of short books featuring the Mudiad’s unique characters, Dewin and Doti
- a printed series of Dewin and Doti reading books
- a transformation resource for leaders which will include training on leadership and management
- the second part of the ‘Cymru Ni’ resource, containing stories about the Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority communities of Wales.
Jeremy Miles, the Minister for Education and Welsh Language, said:
“Mudiad Meithrin play a vital role in developing our youngest children’s learning skills. I’m pleased to support Mudiad with these resources, with their focus on some of our favourite stories and characters, which will be excellent learning tools as our new Curriculum is introduced from this year.”
Dr Gwenllian Lansdown Davies, Chief Executive of Mudiad Meithrin, said:
“Since its inception in 1971, Mudiad Meithrin has led the way in creating various resources for the non-maintained Welsh-medium sector. On every step of the journey, and with every relevant development, we set about leading the sector with the publication of suitable and appropriate resources, co-creating them with the sector itself.
Wales is at a crossroads in terms of its pedagogical development and merging the requirements of the new curriculum with the ECEC ethos, language immersion, ALN developments and the increasing emphasis on diverse Welsh histories; all to be done before September 2022. We have already published some of the resources, e.g., training on the curriculum and the four purposes; the ‘Come and Celebrate’ pack on world religions, which was created with Bangor University, and a resource pack celebrating songs and rhymes from other cultures and languages, which enriches the concept of ‘cynefin’. This funding will enable us to create a new resource pack and distribute it for free to Cylchoedd Meithrin and day nurseries, as well as being of benefit to schools.”