1. Secondary and Post 16 Education Modernisation – Informal Consultation

2. 31 st Jan – 6 th June 2011 The Proposals: 11 – 16: ‘A new structure of seven or eight schools across thirteen sites with some as all through schools’ Welsh Medium: ‘Minimum of three dual-stream schools, with consideration of the establishment of a designated Welsh Medium School’ Post 16: ‘Hub and Spoke’ or ‘FE Tertiary’

3. Consultation Responses Records of: Public Meetings * 16 Pupil Meetings * 16 Staff/Governor Meetings * 16 Powys Youth Forum* 1 Correspondence: 126 Questionnaires: 3,200 External Surveys: 3 Petition: 1 Alternative Proposals: 10 Work-streams: 2 * It is estimated that more than 6,000 people attended the 49 meetings

4. Methodology Every comment from all sources allocated a: Reference number Location (if known) Stakeholder category e.g parent (if known) Theme e.g Pre-16, Post-16, Welsh Medium, General Sub-theme e.g. travel, support, logistics, bilingual

5. Questionnaires Two questionnaires issued: General Young People Information Requested: Home post code Status of stakeholder by location Q1(General Survey only): “Do you welcome the move to retain secondary education on all 13 existing sites?” Q2(General Survey only): “Do you agree with the need for the modernisation of the secondary and post-16 sectors?” Comments on each of the three/general proposals Age (Young People’s survey only)

6. Questionnaire Analysis

7. Responses by stakeholder group Pupils 2255* (includes both questionnaires) College Students 13 Teachers/Lecturers 102 Governors 60 Parents/Guardians 642 Members of staff 42 Others 118

10. Q2a.

11. Q2b

12. Thematic Analysis Pre-16 Post-16 Welsh Medium General

13. THEME 1: PRE-16 Main messages Logistically challenging (pupils, teachers and management) Threat to standards Costs outweigh any benefits “We’re a good school, leave us alone” – Status Quo/General opposition Travel Significant support for all-through schools in Llanidloes

16. THEME 2: POST-16 Main messages Keep 6 th forms in schools: standards and added value of 6 th form to a school and wider community Logistics of ‘hubs & spokes’, Some support for some change (curriculum choice, collaboration, ‘sacrifice the smaller centres to invest in the larger ones’) No to FE Tertiary

19. THEME 3: WELSH MEDIUM Main messages Support for bilingual schools Some support for designated Welsh Medium school Support for Welsh Medium education – local access/entitlement

22. THEME 4: Category ‘Other’ Main messages Case for Change Specific support for school Language All Through Schools Process Status Quo

24. Alternative proposals 1.All Through School: Llanidloes High School & Llanidloes Primary School 2. South Powys: two post-16 ‘Centres of Excellence’ at Crickhowell/Brecon Voc provision at Coleg Gwent CHS ‘management hub’ for local primaries 3.Learn from the highest performing schools, undertake further research into pupil demand, LEA spend 4. Centralise primary cluster administration at Gwernyfed High School

25. 5.Collaboration: Core A levels provided at ‘home’school 30% A levels accessible from other schools CP to focus on voc provision WM – to be demand-led/out-of-county partnerships 6.South Powys WM: Co-ordinate provision across Brecon & Builth Provide WM streams at both, sharing teaching staff and other resources to meet the requirement for WM Single head of WM Or, Establish new Ysgol Uwchradd De Powys across both sites

26. 7. General: Reform LA education dept; Improve the management of school budgets/surplus capacity; Implement ‘Making a Difference’ Improve use of technology 8. Newtown: Retain NHS as an 11 – 18 school Post-16 Hub Develop WM Stream 9. Crickhowell: Develop local 3 – 19 Cluster Model 10. Builth Wells: Retain Builth Wells as an 11-18 bilingual school Provide WM stream at Builth Wells to achieve target of at least 80% Collaboration at Post-16 with schools in local area

27. External surveys Three Surveys received: 1.Friends of Llanfyllin 2.RHaG South Powys 3.North East Powys Parents for WM Education

28. The proposals will allow students to chose a more widely offered education/training route. The choices will be greatly improved. I think that your ideas for Welsh medium education are really bad. We live in Wales so we should be able to learn Welsh in whatever school you go to. I want the school to stay open because then we can start our education in one place and end it in one place

29. How would you feel if your education was in the hands of someone you don't know? I think we should have a welsh medium school in the centre of all the schools. And pupils should have free transport there. So they have more opportunities.

30. In my opinion, everything should just stay as it is. Everyone is happy. Pupils would need to travel much further. I feel that every pupil has the right to go to sixth form in their own schools, where they are comfortable and have built up a rapport with other pupils lower down the school and staff. Taking post-16 education from secondary schools is not the right move for Powys.

31. Where is the substance to these proposals - they are full of rhetoric and statement but little detail. I believe that students being taught through a Welsh language is basically pointless because how many places in the world speak the Welsh language. Unless you will be employed in a strong fluent Welsh community in Wales or Patagonia in the the Falklands then it is advisable but not for myself.

32. ‘ I don’t understand what your proposals are, and even if I did, I wouldn’t agree with them!’

33. What happens now?