English: Education Cabinet Minister - can I also begin by congratulating you on your appointment as Minister for Education and Welsh Language? I know that the children of Islwyn and Wales will have no greater champion and I thank you for your informative statement today. Islwyn schools, children, staff, families and governors have done all they can and more to maintain learning and resilience during this unprecedented pandemic. And today's announcement that an extra £13 million will be provided to support the unique needs of early years learners, plus an additional £6.25 million to help schools build resilience through COVID is very warmly welcomed. Minister, will you join me in celebrating the mammoth efforts of schools across Islwyn, and in particular Trinant Primary School and their headteacher, Mrs Sian James, for their hugely innovative work as part of the FareShare Cymru community? And will you, as education Minister firstly, accept an invitation to visit Islwyn - early in your term of office - to visit Trinant Primary School and see for yourself that excellent work that they are doing to ensure that every child progresses to reach that full potential? And also, will you join with me in welcoming the ministerial portfolios of well-being and the arts and joined-up working in promoting pupil potential and well-being and, obviously, in particular now, as the Welsh Government look to roll out the music Wales manifesto pledge, fulfilling young people's potential and equality of educational access and predicated on an ability to play and not pay?
Welsh: Gweinidog Addysg y Cabinet - a gaf i hefyd ddechrau drwy eich llongyfarch chi ar gael eich penodi yn Weinidog y Gymraeg ac Addysg? Rwy'n gwybod na fydd gan blant Islwyn a Chymru well hyrwyddwr a diolch i chi am eich datganiad llawn gwybodaeth heddiw. Mae ysgolion Islwyn, plant, staff, teuluoedd a llywodraethwyr wedi gwneud popeth o fewn eu gallu a mwy i gynnal dysgu a chadernid yn ystod y pandemig digynsail hwn. Ac mae croeso cynnes iawn i'r cyhoeddiad heddiw y bydd £13 miliwn ychwanegol yn cael ei ddarparu i gefnogi anghenion unigryw dysgwyr y blynyddoedd cynnar, ynghyd â £6.25 miliwn ychwanegol i helpu ysgolion i feithrin cadernid drwy COVID. Gweinidog, a wnewch chi ymuno â mi i ddathlu ymdrechion anferth ysgolion ledled Islwyn, ac yn enwedig Ysgol Gynradd Trinant a'u pennaeth, Mrs Sian James, am eu gwaith arloesol iawn fel rhan o gymuned FareShare Cymru? Ac a wnewch chi, yn rhinwedd eich swyddogaeth yn Weinidog addysg yn gyntaf, dderbyn gwahoddiad i ymweld ag Islwyn - yn gynnar yn eich cyfnod yn y swydd - i ymweld ag Ysgol Gynradd Trinant a gweld drosoch chi eich hun y gwaith rhagorol hwnnw y maen nhw'n ei wneud i sicrhau bod pob plentyn yn symud ymlaen i gyrraedd y potensial llawn hwnnw? A hefyd, a wnewch chi ymuno â mi i groesawu portffolios gweinidogol llesiant a'r celfyddydau a gweithio cydgysylltiedig i hyrwyddo potensial a lles disgyblion ac, yn amlwg, yn arbennig nawr, wrth i Lywodraeth Cymru geisio cyflwyno addewid maniffesto cerddoriaeth Cymru, cyflawni potensial pobl ifanc a chydraddoldeb wrth fanteisio ar gyfleoedd addysgol yn seiliedig ar y gallu i chwarae yn hytrach na'r gallu i dalu?