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NDM7450 Debate on petitions: teaching history in schools
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Meeting: 04/11/2020 - Plenary - Fifth Senedd (Item 9)
Debate on petitions: teaching history in schools
NDM7450 Janet
Finch-Saunders (Aberconwy)
To propose that the Senedd:
Notes the following petitions concerning
the teaching of history in schools:
a) Petition ‘P-05-992 We call on the Welsh
Government to create a common body of knowledge about Welsh history that all
pupils will learn’ which received 7,927 signatures; and
b) Petition ‘P-05-1000 Make it compulsory
for Black and POC UK histories to be taught in the Welsh education curriculum’
which received 34,736 signatures.
Minutes:
The item started at
16.08
Voting on the motion under this item was
deferred until Voting Time.
NDM7450
Janet Finch-Saunders (Aberconwy)
To
propose that the Senedd:
Notes
the following petitions concerning the teaching of history in schools:
a)
Petition ‘P-05-992 We call on the Welsh Government to create a common body of
knowledge about Welsh history that all pupils will learn’ which received 7,927
signatures; and
b)
Petition ‘P-05-1000 Make it compulsory for Black and POC UK histories to be
taught in the Welsh education curriculum’ which received 34,736 signatures.
The result was as follows:
|
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
|
51 |
4 |
0 |
55 |
The motion was agreed.