Learning Welsh: Free Welsh Language Support for early years
Support for early years practitioners to learn Welsh language and support children to learn Welsh too.
At NDNA Cymru we have a wide range of factsheet’s and resources that can support with introducing and implementing Welsh in the setting.
We offer one to one, face to face, email, phone call or videocall support to help with Camau, a Welsh course bespoke to the childcare and early years sector, or to have a discussion in Welsh to help gain confidence and practice using the language.
We offer weekly songs and stories to children and practitioners through the medium of Welsh. We have a closed, private Facebook group that includes sentence of the week, songs, stories, and celebrations of key dates.
Along with celebrating key dates through the Facebook page we also celebrate key Welsh dates through holding webinar’s, our webinars are also held for group sessions such as story time.
We are able to support with achieving the Welsh promise and the Active offer.
Rydyn ni, fel NDNA Cymru, efo llawer o daflenni ffeithiau ac adnoddau sydd yn gallu cefnogi gyda chyflwyno a defnyddio’r iaith Gymraeg yn y sefydliad.
Rydym yn cynnig cymorth 1 I 1, wyneb i wyneb, e-bost, galwad neu gwrdd dros y we i gefnogi gyda Chamau, Cwrs Cymraeg teiliwr i’r sector Blynyddoedd cynnar a gofal plant, neu gallyn ni cael sgwrs i ymarfer defnyddio’r iaith a chodi hyder.
Rydym yn cynnig sesiynau wythnosol i ddarllen straeon neu ganu caneuon gyda’r plant a’r ymarferwyr trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg.
Mae gennym ni tudalen Facebook preifat lle rydym yn rhoi fideos wythnosol gan gynnwys caneuon, straeon, brawddeg yr wythnos ac yn dathlu dyddiadau pwysig yng Nghymru. I gyd fynd gyda dathlu dyddiadau pwysig ar Facebook, rydym hefyd yn dathlu nhw trwy gynnal ‘Webinar’s’. Rydym hefyd yn cynnal ‘webinar’s’ ar gyfer amser stori.
Rydym hefyd yn gallu cefnogi gyda gweithio tuag at yr addewid Cymraeg a’r cynnig gweithredol.
Cymraeg 2050
Summer 2017 saw the launch of Cymraeg 2050. The Welsh Government stated:
“Since increasing Welsh-medium early years childcare provision is essential to our aim of achieving a million Welsh speakers, we need to ensure a coordinated plan to develop this important workforce”.
The Welsh Government funds NDNA Cymru and CWLWM partners to support the early years workforce with the Welsh language, as well as supporting those who embark on a course through the Camau scheme. Camau is a specific Learn Welsh scheme for the early years education and childcare workforce.
Why Welsh
Do you know the benefits of having Welsh as an additional Welsh language, how easy it is to teach this to children and also the benefits of learning at such a young age. I would like to tell you this and would like to help you use the help of five simple words. The beginning of each word starts and builds up the word Welsh making it easier to remember:
W – Why Welsh, why now – wouldn’t it be lovely to be part of the percentage of 1 million Welsh speakers that Wales are going to have by the year 2050, but this isn’t the only benefit, there are so many benefits to learning Welsh as an additional language. Having an additional language improves memory, listening skills, concentration and it helps us with problem solving.
E – Early – learning an additional language under the age of 5 requires using the same part of the brain that is used when learning your first language, making it easier for children under 5 to learn a second language.
L – Listening – children aren’t born with the ability to speak, they aren’t born with a vocabulary or a bank of words. Children learn every word before they are able to read by hearing the words around them.
S- Speaking – this goes with listening, but speaking to somebody helps to improve confidence in using the language. 90% of the time if I speak to a Welsh speaker in Welsh I will get an answer in Welsh, if I speak English I will get the answer in English. How we speak also influences other people.
H – Heritage – we are very fortunate to live in a generation where the Welsh language is being welcomed and is being driven to be a live language. It is known that people that have an additional language are more positive about that county and their culture. We are very fortunate that we get the opportunity to learn Welsh and to go towards the teaching of the next generation.
If you need more support please contact the NDNA Cymru team:
NDNA Cymru members can also contact NDNA’s Welsh Language Development Manager, Mollie Jones for specific queries or support through;
- Phone – 01824 707823 Ext 267
- Email – [email protected]
- showcase sessions – Email Mollie to book a time that best suits you.