School colour categorisation will be ditched in Wales in a move away from “high stakes” performance monitoring, the new head of standards in schools in Wales has told WalesOnline. The annual banding sees a traffic light system with the best schools colour coded green and the worst languishing on red.
Colour rankings were not carried out during the pandemic and are now not expected to return. Owen Evans, who is the new chief inspector at Welsh schools watchdog Estyn, said it would be part of a radical shake up, already under way, with on the spot and more frequent school inspections also now being suggested.
The Welsh Government would not confirm school colour categorisation would go but said an announcement will be made soon. Meanwhile a new focus will also look at how well schools tackle wellbeing and the poverty attainment gap.
