Neve Evans

“The expressive arts provide opportunities to explore thinking, refine, and communicate ideas, engaging thinking, imagination and senses creatively. They also promote exploration of issues of personal and cultural identity. Engagement with the expressive arts requires application, perseverance and close attention to detail, capacities that have benefits across learning more widely.” (Donaldson,2015). The value of expressive art activities within Primary Education is vastly increasing as the years go on. Over the last couple of years, it is becoming far more important for children to do mindfulness activities, do colour-therapy activities and also just to do any sort of activity that might increase well-being (such as being outdoors) as it can release a lot of stress and anxiety that children may have and will have a positive effect on their overall well-being. One of the main factors to expressive arts is creativity, and how creative we are being within and outside of the classr...

Some history of the Welsh Language includes: “ Most European languages, including Welsh, evolved from a language that we now call Indo-European, which in turn developed into nine language groups, one of which was Celtic. The Celtic language also had its own family of languages, some of which died out over the centuries. Those that survived migrated from mainland Europe to the western islands of Britain and Ireland. Welsh may not be spoken as much as English, but it is actually the oldest language in Britain . The passing of the 1536 and 1542 Acts of Union brought a significant change to the official use of Welsh. The purpose of the Acts of Union was to integrate Wales with England. Therefore, English became the official language of business in Wales. During this time it was not possible for any Welsh speaker to hold office in Wales without becoming fluent in English. Although the language was not officially banned, it lost all status because of these restrictions. Over the next fo...

How can Science and Technology activities be made engaging and relevant in Primary Education? Science and Technology are a massive part of our school curriculum and are vital elements of any practical or theoretical learning. Science allows us to observe, to evaluate and to collect knowledge and data and then technology allows us to apply this knowledge collected in a practical way, it also can be what the experiment or observation is conducted on, and it can allow us to gather the best results for our experiments. Looking at Science and Technology within the welsh curriculum, Donaldson explains to us that, ‘ This Area of Learning and Experience capitalises on children and young people’s curiosity about our natural, physical world and universe though investigating, understanding, and explaining. They learn to generate and test ideas, gather evidence, make observations, carry out practical investigations, and communicate with others. They also learn how through computer science...