The Welsh Government has confirmed that it is ditching the only publicly-available system measuring school performance. Annual school colour categorisation, paused during the pandemic, is being axed.
The Welsh Government said a new “school improvement framework” will set out what schools and others in the education system ‘must’ and ‘should’ do for evaluation, improvement, and accountability.
The new system, coming in to coincide with the new curriculum from next term, is less judgemental with a focus on where schools need to improve, the Welsh Government said. Under the new scheme a summary of each school’s improvement priorities and a development plan will be made public and published – schools will be asked to look at themselves and explain their strengths, weaknesses, and improvement plans.
