English: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Congratulations to you on your appointment, and congratulations to you, Cabinet Secretary for education, as well. Thank you for your statement today, the content and tone of which, I am sure, will be welcomed by teachers, students and parents across Wales. And as a former teacher, I know only too well the burden that bureaucracy places upon our teaching staff, and how that burden detracts from the time our teachers are able to spend on preparing and delivering high-quality lessons, as well as impacting on time spent offering crucial pastoral care and support to their students, too. So, on behalf of teachers everywhere, can I thank you, Minister, for acknowledging the issue of bureaucracy in your very first statement as education Minister and for committing to tackling unnecessary bureaucracy within the profession, too? I'm absolutely convinced that doing so is key to raising not just morale among the profession, but also raising standards across the board by freeing teachers up to teach. Therefore, can I ask, Minister, what conversations you have had, or are planning to have, with the teaching unions regarding how best to identify and strip away these layers of bureaucracy, and what examples of best practice you may be looking at from other countries around the world regarding how this can be done? Linked to this, you rightly point out that our education system has shown remarkable resilience and flexibility over the course of the pandemic and that we must learn from this. Minister, how do you intend to draw together the best practices demonstrated over the past year, roll them out across Wales and, crucially, embed them into established teaching and learning practices? Finally, Minister, I am pleased to see that -
Welsh: Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Llongyfarchiadau i chi ar eich penodiad, a llongyfarchiadau i chi, Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros addysg, hefyd. Diolch i chi am eich datganiad heddiw, a bydd athrawon, myfyrwyr a rhieni ledled Cymru yn croesawu ei gynnwys a'i gywair, rwy'n siŵr. Ac fel cyn-athrawes, rwy'n gwybod yn iawn am y baich y mae biwrocratiaeth yn ei roi ar ein staff addysgu, a sut y mae'r baich hwnnw'n amharu ar yr amser y gall ein hathrawon ei dreulio ar baratoi a chyflwyno gwersi o safon, yn ogystal ag effeithio ar yr amser sy'n cael ei dreulio yn cynnig gofal bugeiliol hanfodol a chymorth i'w myfyrwyr hefyd. Felly, ar ran athrawon ym mhobman, a gaf i ddiolch i chi, Gweinidog, am gydnabod biwrocratiaeth yn eich datganiad cyntaf oll fel Gweinidog addysg ac am ymrwymo i fynd i'r afael â biwrocratiaeth ddiangen o fewn y proffesiwn hefyd? Rwy'n gwbl argyhoeddedig bod gwneud hynny'n allweddol i godi nid yn unig calon ymhlith y proffesiwn, ond hefyd codi safonau'n gyffredinol drwy ryddhau athrawon i addysgu. Felly, a gaf i ofyn, Gweinidog, pa sgyrsiau yr ydych chi wedi'u cael, neu'n bwriadu eu cael, gydag undebau'r athrawon ynglŷn â'r ffordd orau o nodi a dileu'r haenau hyn o fiwrocratiaeth, a pha enghreifftiau o arfer gorau y gallech chi fod yn eu hystyried o wledydd eraill ledled y byd ynglŷn â sut y gellir gwneud hyn? Yn gysylltiedig â hyn, rydych chi yn llygad eich lle'n tynnu sylw at y ffaith bod ein system addysg wedi dangos cadernid a hyblygrwydd rhyfeddol yn ystod y pandemig a bod yn rhaid i ni ddysgu o hyn. Gweinidog, sut ydych chi'n bwriadu dwyn ynghyd yr arferion gorau a ddaeth i'r amlwg yn ystod y flwyddyn ddiwethaf, eu cyflwyno ledled Cymru ac, yn hollbwysig, eu hymgorffori yn arferion addysgu a dysgu sefydledig? Yn olaf, Gweinidog, yr wyf i'n falch o weld -