Ffilm ddogfen gan Lleucu Meinir yn dangos effaith cau ysgol bentrefol ar y disgyblion, yr athrawon a'r gymuned. Bu Lleucu yn ffilmio yn ystod wythnos olaf Ysgol Gynradd Mynyddcerrig, Sir Gaerfyrddin ym mis Gorffennaf 2007.
Here we go again. Carmarthenshire Council's education spokesman, Ieuan Jones, is again complaining in your letters column that everyone is "misinformed" - if not plain stupid because they won't agree with the Independents that it's a brilliant idea to close down all our village schools.
He says that other councils are also facing up to the challenges and names Gwynedd.
Gwynedd Council has just revised its consultation timetable in order to give people a fair chance to put forward their views. It has also postponed for a year a major restructuring as the Assembly Government is working on exciting new proposals as to how schools can co-operate with each other as an alternative to closures.
Any chance that the Independent councillors in Carmarthenshire will start listening to people and to positive alternatives in the same way? No chance at all.
If re-elected, they are determined to press ahead with the tired old policy of closing schools and centralising everything. It's easier for bureaucrats to control fewer, larger schools - never mind about the education and the local communities.
Obviously funds can't come from elsewhere to save the schools, because so much money is needed for the wages of the top officers.
Councillor Jones rightly says that Carmarthenshire Council has won awards from bureaucrats across Wales. They admire the breathtaking arrogance of Carmarthenshire Council in steamrollering their own policies through without the inconvenience of anything but the absolute statutory minimum of consultation - and they still expect to get re-elected.
Councillor Jones and his gang of Independents at County Hall are surely running the risk in this election that voters are not quite as "misinformed" as he thinks they are.
A Plaid councillor has called on education chiefs in Carmarthenshire to come clean over the future of small rural schools.
Councillor Eirwyn Williams (pictured) said there were fears that more schools could be axed as part of the council's Ł140 million plan to modernise the education system.
Parents unaware of school reprieve (Llanelli Star)
Parents in Carway claim they have not been told about a council U-turn to keep their school open. Carmarthenshire Council will be reassessing the primary school's future under its modernising education plan.
It means the school will stay open for at least another three years.
"IT'S shameful that there are people out there who are so stupid, 'twp' and who talk nonsense," were the words used by Councillor Ieuan Jones, of Llandeilo, the executive board member for education at a recent county council meeting.
Councillor Jones was referring to those who have showed their opposition and protested against Carmarthenshire Council's policy regarding the closure of rural schools.
At the same meeting, Councillor Meryl Gravell, leader of the council, referring to Plaid councillors, said: "Some members exhibit extreme weakness and are prepared to listen to people protesting against school closures in the public gallery and out there in the community."
This goes to the heart of how Carmarthenshire has been run over the last four years. Democracy stands for nothing. It is a "we know best" attitude every time, with little respect for different points of view.
Since Councillor Jones is responsible for education, he should surely encourage respect for different viewpoints.
It is a sad day if education does not teach our children to see all sides of an argument, and tolerance and respect to those who do not agree with their views.
Time and time again, the Independent and Labour groups who run the council have failed to listen to the electorate.
Decisions are made by a small number of individuals and high-ranking officers of departments.
Plaid will work to ensure Carmarthenshire Council is more open and answerable to the public. A Plaid-run council will operate on a non-partisan basis, building robust scrutiny mechanisms, so that decision-making power is not merely concentrated in the hands of the 10 executive board members.
Peter Hughes Griffiths
Leader of Plaid councillors on Carmarthenshire Council
SMALL rural schools in Wales are “less protected” from closure than they are in England, a campaign group warned yesterday.
The National Association for Small Schools (Nass) says between 100 and 300 schools across the UK could shut their doors because councils are under pressure to not only cut the number of spare places but also not to have too many schools.
Meryl Gravell, Carmarthenshire council leader, stated (Journal, January 9) that people are failing to realise that closing schools and care homes, and centralising everything within our county will "provide a better public service".
What Meryl Gravell and the council are failing to realise is that receiving education and care within a community offers the confidence and the support for children to thrive educationally and for the elderly to feel secure and happy.
When are council leaders going to start listening to what the people of Carmarthenshire are asking for? Everyone accepts the current situation is not viable and there is a need for reorganising. But this should be done in a creative manner, with schools and possibly even care homes working together to provide a better service; rather than offering closure to everything small and forcing our children and the elderly to travel for miles to receive this so-called better service.
I urge everyone who opposes this ridiculous centralisation to use their vote effectively in the local council elections in May, to ensure that this tired regime does not get another chance to destroy our communities.
Angharad Clwyd
Dyfed organiser - Cymdeithas yr Iaith
Fe fydd dwy ysgol wledig yn Sir Gaerfyrddin yn cau am byth y flwyddyn nesaf er gwaethaf protestiadau gan rieni a disgyblion.
Roedd gwrthwynebwyr wedi ymgasglu y tu allan i Neuadd y Sir wrth i aelodau o fwrdd gweithredol Cyngor Sir Caerfyrddin gyfarfod i drafod cau Ysgolion Cynradd Llanarthne a Llansadwrn.
Mae addysg yn sicr yn un o'r pynciau fydd yn effeithio ar sut mae pobl yn pleidleisio yn yr etholiad ar Fai 3.
Mae nifer o awdurdodau lleol dros Gymru wedi bod yn edrych ar ad-drefnu ysgolion yn ddiweddar ac mae rhai wedi penderfynu cau ysgolion bach gan achosi llu o brotestiadau.
The front line of the battle to save village schools (Western Mail)
Despite a major campaign to support the village schools of Wales, Carmarthenshire County Council has already closed one and is poised to take a decision on three others, writes Cymdeithas yr Iaith's Education spokesperson Ffred Ffransis
Rugby legend strides out in school campaign (Western Mail)
RUGBY legend Ray Gravell will today join a demonstration criticising a council's walk-to- school campaign, which is taking place at the same time as it closes many schools in rural villages.
Former Wales and British Lions centre Ray, who has two children in Mynyddygarreg primary in Carmarthenshire, says that soon, pupils will have no local school to walk to.
Protest tu allan i ysgol dan fygythiad (BBC Cymru)
Mae rhieni a phlant yn Sir Gaerfyrddin wedi bod yn protestio y tu allan i ysgol allai gau erbyn diwedd y flwyddyn.
Maen nhw'n gwrthwynebu cynlluniau ad-drefnu addysg y cyngor, sy'n dweud fod rhaid ymdrin â'r 5,000 o lefydd gwag yn ysgolion cynradd y sir.
Cafodd y brotest, oedd wedi ei threfnu gan Gymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg a Fforwm Ysgolion Sir Gâr, ei chynnal y tu allan i Ysgol Mynyddcerrig brynhawn Sadwrn.
Beth NA ddywedodd y Cyngor wrthoch chi am eu cynlluniau addysg..
Bydd llawer ohonoch wedi gweld atodiad 12 tudalen diweddar Cyngor Sir Gâr (a gostiodd sawl mil o bunnoedd) yn rhoi cyflwyniad cwbl unochrog o’u cynllun deng-mlynedd: Moderneiddio’r Ddarpariaeth Addysg (neu’r MEP).
Pwyswch yma (PDF) i lawrlwytho dogfen ymatebol Fforwm Ysgolion Cynradd Sir Gâr a ymddangosodd yn y Carmarthen Journal heddiw.
Spokesman for Welsh pressure group Cymdeithas yr Iaith Aled Davies said that he believed the process was biased against village schools.
"There is no way that consultation about the future of individual schools can be open and fair as they are relying on the proceeds from selling off schools in order to finance a significant part of the so-called modernisation plans," he added.
Cymdeithas yr Iaith has asked the Carmarthenshire County Council's marketing and so-called 'democratic services' departments what was the cost of the 16-page Carmarthenshire News supplement which was placed in the Journal on August 31 to justify the Modernising Educational Provision Strategy.
A Tory split has appeared in Llanelli over plans to revamp Carmarthenshire schools. Conservative town councillor John Jenkins has defended Carmarthenshire Council's Ł110 million Modernising Education Provision (MEP) plan after the party's Assembly leader Nick Bourne appeared to throw Tory weight against the plan.
Welsh language lobby group Cymdeithas Yr Iaith has suspended its protest against the proposed Ł110m county-wide education revamp. The move comes after the group met with the council's recently appointed director of education Vernon Morgan.
TRAP villagers want to keep their school's premises within the community, if the proposed closure goes ahead. Councillors at Carmarthenshire Council met yesterday (Tuesday) and decided to start consultation for the closure of Trap and Cwmgwili schools.
Our Council is not a business (thisissouthwales.co.uk)
A Recent letter in the Journal (from Alan Colls, March 6) expressed surprise at the presence of the Carmarthenshire Council hierarchy at The Halfway, in Nantgaredig, on Wednesday February 9.
Hundreds of parents across Carmarthenshire are fighting to save their village schools. JONATHAN ISAACS looks at the battle and why the council is adamant that its plans will mean a better education for all the county's pupils.
School plan means 'Pain & Torture' (thisissouthwales.co.uk)
A Gwendraeth Valley county councillor has accused education chiefs of not understanding the agony their Ł110m schools modernisation plan is causing rural communities. The plans will bring new community schools as dozens of small rural schools are shut down.
Parents march for schools' future (thisissouthwales.co.uk)
A Protest march against the council's Ł110m education plan has been organised for Easter weekend. The Friday, March 25, sponsored walk to the top of Mynyddcerrig is designed to raise money for the Primary Schools Forum (PSF) fighting fund against the council's Ł110m education plan.
Mi roedd dros 30 o ysgolion wedi’u cynrychioli yn y cyfarfod yng Ngharmel heddiw. Fel gŵr gwadd, mi roedd Cris Tomas o Ysgol Hermon wedi crynhoi’r ymgyrch aflwyddiannus i gadw Ysgol Hermon ar agor mewn ffordd hynod o ddiddorol. Serch hynny, mi ddaeth nifer o wersi pwysig ynglyn â ffyrdd posib i ni weithredu fel Fforwm.
Who will lose out as schools get big revamp? (thisissouthwales.co.uk)
The principal argument put forward by those favouring the "rationalisation" (ie closure) of rural schools purports to be an economic one. The cost per head of educating pupils in these schools is greater than that in larger schools. Therefore, the smaller schools must be closed to make way for larger ones.
THERE should be better standards of consultation when it comes to closing or merging schools in counties across Wales, according to a Welsh language pressure group.
Etholiwyd y Swyddogion canlynol i'r Fforwm ar nos Iau 13 o Ionawr 2005
Cadeirydd - Tony Stephens (Nantygroes)
Is-Gadeirydd - Ian Evans (Carwe)
Ysgrifennydd - Ioan Hefin (Mynyddygarreg)
Trysorydd - Tegid Dafis (Maesybont)
Gosodwyd amcan o:
"Diogelu a datblygu ein hysgolion pentrefol yn ganolfannau addysg a datblgyu cymunedol."
Bydd y Swyddogion yn galw Cyfarfod Pwyllgor Canol i drefnu ymgyrch. Byddant yn gwahodd pob cymuned tan fygythiad i ethol cynrychiolydd a'i ddanfon at y cyfarfod.
Y wefan www.cadwneinhysgolion.com Yn dilyn y cyfarfod hwn, trosglwyddir y wefan hon i'r Fforwm (tan ofal Ioan Hefin) gan Gymdeithas yr Iaith.
Yn y cyfamser...
Ewch i'r adran Newyddion am y diweddaraf ynglŷn â'r ymgyrch
Mae digwyddiadau/protestiadau wedi eu trefnu, ewch i'r adran Digwyddiadau am fwy o fanylion
Polisiau gwrth Gymreig y Cyngor yn peri i Gymry Cymraeg beidio ymgeisio am swydd Cyfarwyddwr Addysg
Mae Cymdeithass yr Iaith wedi ymateb i gyhuddiad a wnaed gan y Cyng Martin Morris (dirprwy arweinydd y Cyngor mewn Datganiad i'r Wasg heddiw) fod y Gymdeithas a chyrff eraill yn ei gwneud yn anos i'r Cyngor gael y person gorau i'r swydd ar gyfer gweithredu eu cynlluniau uchelgeisiol mewn addysg trwy ddweud mai polisiau gwrth-Gymreig y Cyngor ei hun sy'n peri i Gymry Cymraeg feddwl ddwywaith cyn ymgeisio am swydd Cyfarwyddwr Addysg.
ANGRY parents claim a council has pulled the wool over the Assembly Education Minister's eyes over its plans to merge and close dozens of primary schools.
Cyngor Sir wedi camarwain Gweinidog Addysg y Cynulliad
Mae Cyngor Sir Caerfyrddin wedi cael ei ddal yn ceisio camarwain Gweinidog Addysg y Cynulliad ynghylch eu cynllun dadleuol i gau degau o ysgolion pentrefol Cymraeg yn y sir.
Blueprint plans have been unveiled for a number of state-of-the-art schools in the Gwendraeth Valley as part of Carmarthenshire Council's education revamp.
Council will consult on Schools (South Wales Evening Post)
Council education chiefs have again spoken out to reassure parents that no final decision has yet been made on its controversial Ł110m modernisation plan. At last Friday's education scrutiny committee meeting, officers promised to carry out extensive consultation on any proposals involving re-organisation.
CAMPAIGNERS are again condemning a plan to merge and close schools (Western Mail)
CAMPAIGNERS are again condemning a plan to merge and close schools in West Wales after a meeting of the board whose job it is to scrutinise such decisions.
Carmarthenshire County Council's Education Scrutiny Committee met yesterday, but there was no vote on a motion put forward by Councillor Eirwyn Williams to consult on the policy in its entirety.
Protestors have sent letters to education committee members demanding a six month debate on schools. Campaigners claim the committee meeting this morning (Thursday) was the last chance for the public to have their say on the issue.
Mae rhieni-lywodraethwyr sy’n aelodau o Bwyllgor Craffu Addysg Cyngor Sir Caerfyrddin wedi sicrhau y bydd y Pwyllgor yn cael trafod a mynegi barn yn eu cyfarfod fory (10am Iau 16/12) ar y strategaeth ddinistriol a allai arwain at gau hyd at ddeugain o ysgolion pentrefol Cymraeg yn y sir.
Plaid AM tells Carmarthenshire Council to think again (Plaid Cymru Press Release)
Over 200 people have demonstrated on the steps of County Hall in Carmarthen over a Ł110m education modernisation plan that could see up to 32 schools close. At the meeting Helen Mary Jones AM pledged Plaid Cymru's support to those communities calling for proper consultation before decisions are taken.
Mae Cyngor Sir Caerfyrddin wedi cael ei ddal yn ceisio camarwain Gweinidog Addysg y Cynulliad ynghylch eu cynllun dadleuol i gau degau o ysgolion pentrefol Cymraeg yn y sir.