In light of Pembrokeshire County Council's decission yesterday to accept recommendations regarding changes to education in the north and south west of the county, Bethan Wiilliams, area officer of Dyfed for Cymdeithas yr Iaith said:
Wrth ymateb i benderfyniad Cyngor Sir Benfro ddoe i dderbyn argymhellion ynglŷn â newidiadau i addysg yng ngogledd a de orllewin y sir, dywedodd Bethan Wiilliams, swyddog maes Dyfed Cymdeithas yr Iaith:
Mae Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg wedi mynegi pryder yn dilyn datganiad gan Lywodraeth Cymru heddiw am newidiadau arfaethedig i gwricwlwm ysgolion a'r ffordd mae'r Gymraeg yn cael ei dysgu.
Cymdeithas yr Iaith have called for all closures of Welsh-medium village schools to be halted until research has been carried out into the effect of closures during the last decade on the Welsh language and Welsh-speaking communities.
This comes as part of our response to Ceredigion's proposal to close Ysgol Llangynfelyn near Aberystywth, The statutory consultation period closed last night, and in their written response Cymdeithas said
Mae Cymdeithas yr Iaith wedi galw am beidio cau ysgolion nes cynnal ymchwil ar effaith cau ysgolion ar y Gymraeg a chymunedau Cymraeg dros y ddegawd ddiwethaf.
Daeth cyfnod ymgynghori ar gau ysgol Llangynfelyn ger Aberystwyth i ben ddoe ac mewn ymateb ysgrifenedig dywed Cymdeithas yr Iaith:
During a meeting held by Cymdeithas yr Iaith in Carmarthen over the weekend, a senior County Council officer called on the Government to get rid of the subject "Welsh as a Second Language" and instead implement in full the recommendations of the Prof Sioned Davuies Committee that all pupils should be taught Welsh as their own language on a single continuum of increasing levels. The call was made at a meeting attended by 60 delegates of county-wide bodies to question leading councillors and officers about the strategy to develop Welsh-langugae education.
Mewn cyfarfod yng Nghaerfyrddin dros y penwythnos, galwodd Pennaeth Gwasanaeth Addysg Cyngor Sir Caerfyrddin Mr Gareth Morgans ar Lywodraeth Cymru i ddileu "Cymraeg Ail Iaith" ac i weithredu argymhellion pwyllgor yr Athro Sioned Davies i ddysgu Cymraeg i bawb ar un continwwm. Gwnaed y galwad mewn cyfarfod a fynychwyd gan 60 o bobl "Tynged yr Iaith yn Sir Gâr" a drefnwyd gan y Gymdeithas i holi prif gynghorwyr a swyddogion am ddatblygiad addysg Gymraeg yn y sir.
Mewn ymateb, dywedodd llefarydd y Gymdeithas ar addysg Ffred Ffransis
