English: Minister, I'd like to place on record my personal thanks to you for the absolutely phenomenal effort you have made to maximise children's time in school this summer and, crucially, for putting children first through all of this. Garnteg school in my constituency have been truly outstanding in lockdown, but we know that the variation in what children have been receiving across Wales has been huge. I'd just like to read Members some words my eight-year-old constituent Florence wrote to me recently when she nominated her teachers at Garnteg as her COVID superheroes: 'Mrs Lewis is still setting us work and helping us learn. I like Mrs Lewis because whenever I need help, I can tell her. She has a little girl called Lily and she joined us on the video call. On the video call, I showed her my dog Pippa and I told Mrs Lewis when Pippa's birthday was. She liked my dog. On one video call, Mrs Lewis read the class part of a story, and it was lovely to hear her voice.' If I had time, I would read Florence's whole essay because it conveys far better than I ever could just why that personal contact with teachers really, really matters to children. But unfortunately, too few children have received high-quality contact with teachers in lockdown. Minister, I know that you are doing absolutely everything that you can to ensure that children get more time in school. When schools closed in March, it was an emergency. It's not an emergency now and it won't be in September. What more can we do to ensure that all children in Wales have high-quality personal contact with their teachers, going forward?
Welsh: Weinidog, hoffwn gofnodi fy niolch personol i chi am yr ymdrech gwbl ardderchog rydych wedi'i gwneud i sicrhau cymaint o amser â phosibl i blant yn yr ysgol yr haf hwn ac yn hollbwysig, am roi plant yn gyntaf drwy hyn i gyd. Mae ysgol Garnteg yn fy etholaeth wedi bod yn wirioneddol rhagorol yn ystod y cyfyngiadau symud, ond gwyddom fod yr amrywiaeth yn yr hyn y mae plant wedi bod yn ei gael ledled Cymru wedi bod yn aruthrol. Hoffwn ddarllen rhai geiriau i'r Aelodau a ysgrifennodd fy etholwraig, Florence, sy'n wyth oed, yn ddiweddar, pan enwebodd ei hathrawon yn ysgol Garnteg fel ei hararwyr COVID: Mae Mrs Lewis yn dal i osod gwaith i ni ac yn ein helpu i ddysgu. Rwy'n hoffi Mrs Lewis oherwydd pryd bynnag y bydd angen help arnaf, gallaf ddweud wrthi. Mae ganddi ferch fach o'r enw Lily ac ymunodd â ni ar yr alwad fideo. Ar yr alwad fideo, dangosais fy nghi, Pippa, iddi a dywedais wrth Mrs Lewis pryd oedd pen-blwydd Pippa. Roedd hi'n hoffi fy nghi. Ar un alwad fideo, darllenodd Mrs Lewis ran y dosbarth o stori, ac roedd yn hyfryd clywed ei llais. Pe bai gennyf amser, byddwn yn darllen traethawd cyfan Florence am ei fod yn cyfleu'n llawer gwell nag y gallwn i pam y mae'r cysylltiad personol ag athrawon yn wirioneddol bwysig i blant. Ond yn anffodus, nid oes digon o blant wedi cael cyswllt o safon uchel gydag athrawon yn ystod y cyfyngiadau symud. Weinidog, gwn eich bod yn gwneud popeth yn eich gallu i sicrhau bod plant yn cael mwy o amser yn yr ysgol. Pan gaeodd yr ysgolion ym mis Mawrth, roedd yna argyfwng. Nid yw'n argyfwng yn awr ac ni fydd yn argyfwng ym mis Medi. Beth arall y gallwn ei wneud i sicrhau bod pob plentyn yng Nghymru yn cael cyswllt personol o ansawdd uchel â'u hathrawon, wrth symud ymlaen?