English: Thank you for your words of congratulation, and for the tone in which you made your observations. I certainly will want to work constructively with all of the parties in this Chamber to deliver for our children and young people, right across Wales. I think if we focus on learner well-being and progression, supporting the well-being of the profession, in the way that the Member referenced at the end of her question, we will find plenty of common ground. At the end of the last Senedd, we undertook an extensive exercise, as the Member will know, in looking at the impact of COVID across all aspects of our society. It was very clear then, as we discussed in this Chamber at the end of the last Senedd, that our children and young people would bear a significant burden of dealing with COVID unless we take particular steps to intervene. That's what motivates the statement that I've made today. I do agree with the Member that a long-term vision and a long-term commitment is absolutely essential. I think that is the motivation behind a number of the interventions that we have made to date, which do focus on the ability of learners to learn, but in a way that supports their broader well-being, gives them the skills that they need, or to relearn the skills that they may have not been able to exercise in the last year, so that their engagement with their learning is what it can be. I think there will need to be a very bespoke approach to learners, because not all learners' experience of the last year has been the same. In relation to the funding that the Member asked me about, she'll remember the announcement at the end of the last Senedd term of £72 million worth of investment, which was mainly intended to support our three Rs funding, which has a particular focus on vulnerable and disadvantaged learners, and in addition to that, the funding of £33 million to support post-16 teaching in further education colleges and local authority sixth forms. And that, together with the funding today, we will be deploying to support learners in the future, in the period ahead. With regard to the new funding, it serves two purposes. Firstly, to improve the ratios for early years learners. We know that building relationships, learning through play, is absolutely essential in the early years, and therefore the ratios are very important. So, the funding is designed to improve those ratios, and then also to provide resources so that teachers can support the well-being of learners through learning, and that that best practice is shared amongst our schools. So, it has those twin purposes. The Member asked some very specific questions about the work in terms of centre-determined grades for the assessments this summer. I do absolutely recognise that teachers are playing an absolutely essential role in delivering that. We learnt that from last summer - how important it is to trust teachers' judgements in delivering the outcomes for our learners. I recognise that that involves them managing competing priorities in their work life. We've sought to support that through providing resources and materials, through providing some extra flexibility, in particular in relation to end-of-stage assessment and moderation in non-qualification years, and provided some additional funding so that schools can build some extra capacity into their provision. In relation to the curriculum, I don't want to lose the momentum that exists in the system towards implementing the curriculum. There is a great enthusiasm, I think, and what I think we have learnt from COVID is that learners need to be able to be adaptable and enterprising and respond to a changing world around them - and that crucial focus on learner well-being. Those are exactly the qualities that we need in our school system in order to flourish in the world of the new curriculum. So, I'm keen that we move forward, and that we build on what we've learnt over the course of the last year, and take that forward into the new curriculum. Finally, Dirprwy Lywydd, on the question of mental health, I think the question of learner and professional well-being is at the heart of this. The whole-school framework was published at the end of the last Senedd term. We've announced significant funding to take that forward in this Senedd term, and it remains a fundamental commitment on my part to deliver that in our schools.
Welsh: Diolch am eich geiriau yn fy llongyfarch, ac am wneud eich sylwadau yn y fath gywair. Yn sicr, byddaf i eisiau gweithio'n adeiladol gyda'r holl bleidiau yn y Siambr hon i gyflawni dros ein plant a'n pobl ifanc, ledled Cymru. Rwy'n credu, os byddwn ni'n canolbwyntio ar les a dilyniant dysgwyr, gan gefnogi lles y proffesiwn, yn y ffordd y cyfeiriodd yr Aelod ato ar ddiwedd ei chwestiwn, y byddwn ni'n dod o hyd i ddigon o dir cyffredin. Ar ddiwedd y Senedd ddiwethaf, gwnaethom ni gynnal ymarfer helaeth, fel y mae'r Aelod yn ei wybod, o ran edrych ar effaith COVID ar draws pob agwedd ar ein cymdeithas. Roedd yn amlwg iawn bryd hynny, fel y gwnaethom ni ei drafod yn y Siambr hon ar ddiwedd y Senedd ddiwethaf, y byddai ein plant a'n pobl ifanc yn ysgwyddo baich sylweddol o ran ymdrin â COVID oni bai ein bod yn cymryd camau penodol i ymyrryd. Dyna sy'n ysgogi'r datganiad yr wyf i wedi'i wneud heddiw. Rwy'n cytuno â'r Aelod bod gweledigaeth hirdymor ac ymrwymiad hirdymor yn gwbl hanfodol. Rwy'n credu mai dyna'r cymhelliant y tu ôl i nifer o'r ymyriadau yr ydym ni wedi'u gwneud hyd yn hyn, sy'n canolbwyntio ar allu dysgwyr i ddysgu, ond mewn ffordd sy'n cefnogi eu lles ehangach, sy'n rhoi iddyn nhw y sgiliau y mae eu hangen arnyn nhw, neu i ailddysgu'r sgiliau nad oedden nhw efallai wedi gallu eu harfer yn ystod y flwyddyn ddiwethaf, fel bod eu hymgysylltiad â'u dysgu gystal ag y gall fod. Rwy'n credu y bydd angen dull pwrpasol iawn o ymdrin â dysgwyr, oherwydd nid yw profiad pob dysgwr o'r flwyddyn ddiwethaf wedi bod yr un fath. O ran y cyllid yr oedd yr Aelod wedi gofyn i mi amdano, bydd yn cofio'r cyhoeddiad gwerth £72 miliwn o fuddsoddiad ar ddiwedd tymor diwethaf y Senedd, a oedd wedi'i fwriadu yn bennaf i gefnogi ein cyllid ar gyfer y rhaglen recriwtio, adfer a chodi safonau sy'n canolbwyntio'n benodol ar ddysgwyr agored i niwed a dysgwyr difreintiedig, ac yn ogystal â hynny, cyllid o £33 miliwn i gefnogi addysgu ôl-16 mewn colegau addysg bellach a dosbarthiadau chweched dosbarth awdurdodau lleol. A bydd hwnnw, ynghyd â'r cyllid heddiw, yn cael eu defnyddio i gefnogi dysgwyr yn y dyfodol, yn y cyfnod i ddod. O ran y cyllid newydd, mae'n cyflawni dau ddiben. Yn gyntaf, gwella'r cymarebau ar gyfer dysgwyr blynyddoedd cynnar. Rydym ni'n ymwybodol bod meithrin cydberthnasau, dysgu drwy chwarae, yn gwbl hanfodol yn y blynyddoedd cynnar, ac felly mae'r cymarebau'n bwysig iawn. Felly, mae'r cyllid wedi'i gynllunio i wella'r cymarebau hynny, ac yna hefyd i ddarparu adnoddau fel y gall athrawon gefnogi lles dysgwyr drwy ddysgu, a bod yr arferion gorau hynny'n cael eu rhannu ymhlith ein hysgolion. Felly, mae ganddo'r ddau ddiben hynny. Gofynnodd yr Aelod rai cwestiynau penodol iawn ynghylch y gwaith o ran graddau wedi'u pennu gan y ganolfan ar gyfer yr asesiadau yr haf hwn. Rwyf i'n cydnabod yn llwyr fod athrawon yn chwarae rhan gwbl hanfodol wrth gyflawni hynny. Gwnaethom ni ddysgu hynny o'r haf diwethaf - pa mor bwysig yw ymddiried ym marn athrawon wrth gyflawni'r canlyniadau i'n dysgwyr. Rwy'n cydnabod bod hynny'n golygu eu bod yn rheoli blaenoriaethau sy'n cystadlu â'i gilydd yn eu bywyd gwaith. Rydym ni wedi ceisio cefnogi hynny drwy ddarparu adnoddau a deunyddiau, drwy ddarparu rhywfaint o hyblygrwydd ychwanegol, yn enwedig o ran asesu a chymedroli diwedd cyfnod mewn blynyddoedd nad ydyn nhw'n arwain at gymwysterau, a darparu rhywfaint o arian ychwanegol fel y gall ysgolion greu rhywfaint o gapasiti ychwanegol yn eu darpariaeth. O ran y cwricwlwm, nid wyf i eisiau colli'r momentwm sy'n bodoli yn y system tuag at weithredu'r cwricwlwm. Mae brwdfrydedd mawr, rwy'n credu, a'r hyn rwy'n credu yr ydym ni wedi'i ddysgu o COVID yw bod angen i ddysgwyr allu addasu a bod yn fentrus ac ymateb i fyd sy'n newid o'u cwmpas - a'r canolbwyntio hollbwysig hwnnw ar les dysgwyr. Dyna'n union yw'r rhinweddau y mae eu hangen arnom ni yn ein system ysgolion er mwyn ffynnu ym myd y cwricwlwm newydd. Felly, rwy'n awyddus ein bod ni'n symud ymlaen, a'n bod ni'n adeiladu ar yr hyn yr ydym ni wedi'i ddysgu yn ystod y flwyddyn ddiwethaf, ac ymgorffori hynny yn y cwricwlwm newydd. Yn olaf, Dirprwy Lywydd, ar fater iechyd meddwl, rwy'n credu bod mater lles dysgwyr a gweithwyr proffesiynol wrth wraidd hyn. Cafodd y fframwaith ysgol gyfan ei gyhoeddi ar ddiwedd tymor diwethaf y Senedd. Rydym ni wedi cyhoeddi cyllid sylweddol i ddatblygu hynny yn nhymor y Senedd hon, ac mae'n parhau i fod yn ymrwymiad sylfaenol ar fy rhan i i gyflawni hynny yn ein hysgolion.