Welsh Immersion Education - Strategies and approaches to support 3 to 11-year-old learners

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Non-maintained settings and schools should:

R1  build on effective practice and plan a range of consistent activities that provide opportunities for learners to acquire vocabulary and syntactical patterns purposefully and coherently

Local authorities and regional consortia should:

R2  plan purposefully to ensure equal opportunities for all learners to access early and late immersion provision

R3  evaluate immersion provision thoroughly, including tracking latecomers’ progress consistently over time

R4  strengthen and ensure consistency in the professional learning offer on the principles and methods of immersion education for all practitioners

The Welsh Government should:

R5  develop national guidelines on early immersion and late immersion, and commission a range of suitable resources for learners of all ages to support immersion education that celebrate the diversity of Wales

R6  establish a national forum to promote the most effective immersion education practices, including promoting local arrangements to introduce vocabulary and syntactical patterns

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