WG Announcement – “Reporting on the National Literacy and Numeracy Framework is changing”

Schools across Wales have come to us with misunderstandings about this recent WG announcement. The page on Learning Wales is entitled “Reporting on the National Literacy and Numeracy Framework is changing” – this is important because the announcement is about the reporting of the Literacy and Numeracy Framework specifically.

It is important to emphasise that the statutory requirement for schools to report pupils’ progress in all 'subjects, AOLs and activities studied... including all national curriculum subjects’ has not changed (see page 25 of the National Data Collection and Reporting Arrangements 2016/17). Consequently, you are required to report to parents based on the other subjects -- the latest announcement only concerns what you do with comments about the LNF.

Many of our schools report the LNF across the whole curriculum – within and alongside both the ‘core’ and ‘non-core’ subjects. What’s changing is that schools are now only required to report the LNF along with English, Welsh and Maths (LLC and MD in FP).

However, the statement ends by stating that ‘if schools feel that they have effective systems in place for reporting on the LNF across the curriculum they are free to continue reporting in this way’. Therefore, whether you chose to embed the LNF within English, Welsh and Maths or to include it in a separate section of your reports, you are meeting the requirements and don’t need to change anything.