Dear Parent/Guardian

Developing Foundation Phase materials:

Child-Initiated and Adult-Led Guidance

The Department for Education and Skills (DfES), within the Welsh Government, is continuously involved in working with early years settings and schools to produce new educational guidance materials to support high-quality learning and teaching.

We are delighted that your child’s setting/school has agreed to be part of our current programme to develop new materials to help practitioners to deliver the future Foundation Phase curriculum and its focus on children’s’ skills and individual needs.

To be relevant, interesting and useful to both children and their practitioners, new resources are being designed to include a range of children’s own work, including written/creative work, photographs and film clips of children talking about and undertaking activities.

The work created by your child and any photography or filming undertaken of your child may be used and reproduced in our teaching and learning booklets, CDs, DVDs and may also be included on the Welsh Government’s websites learning.wales.gov.uk

All written/creative work and filmed/photographic images used will be checked thoroughly to ensure that no individual child is identified by name or setting/school, and will only be used in the educational materials we are producingfocusing on child-initiated and adult-led learning.

The educational materials we produce will be bilingual and made available free of charge to all early years settings, schools, local authorities, colleges andteacher training institutions in Wales, to use for non-commercial education purposes.

We should be most grateful if you would please give permission for any work or activity involving your child to be used as described within this letter and the attached consent form.

If you are content for your child to be involved, please complete and sign the attached consent form.

Yours sincerely

Sarah Ghahremani

Sarah Ghahremani

On behalf of DfES, Welsh Government

Developing new resources for learners and teachers

Parent/Guardian consent form

This consentform requests your permission to use:

Examples ofyour child’s written/creative work (“the Setting/School Work”);

and/or

Filmed/photographic images of your child undertaking activities,including the production of the Setting/School Work(“the Images”);

only for the following purposes:

as part of Foundation Phase child initiated/adult led learning guidance materials, a new high-quality learning and teaching resource for early years settings and schools (“the Purposes”).

DECLARATION OF CONSENT:

I grant permission to the Welsh Government, acting on behalf of the Welsh Ministers,(and all those persons or bodies authorised by it) to use, store, reproduce, adapt and publish and distribute the Setting/School Work and/orthe Images, either complete or in part, alone or in conjunction with any wording or imagery in Welsh Government publications, multimedia, promotions or other similar material in connection with the Purposes.

I agree that the Welsh Government (and all those persons or bodies authorised by it) shall be entitled to assign, licence, edit, adapt, translate and/or use the Setting/School Work and the Images by all means and in all media provided that this is in done in connection with the Purposes.

I grant the above permission on the understanding that:

  • neither my child nor his/her setting/school will be named in any publicity material including the Setting/School Work and the Images; and
  • the Setting/School Work and/or the Imagesshall be used solely in connection with the Purposes.

I acknowledge that this form shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English and Welsh courts. Nothing in this form shall give any person any rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.

Developing new resources for Foundation Phase practitioners

Your Name (Please print your name in BLOCK CAPITALS):

…………………………………………………………………………………………

Child’s name:…………………………………………….……………………………………………

Setting/School:………………………………………….………………………………………………

Please state your relationship to the child:…………………………

You confirm that you are the parent/guardian of the child named above:YES/NO

You confirm that you are entitled to grant the rights and permissions

set out above on behalf of the child named above: YES/NO

Your Signature:………………………………………

Address:……………………………………………………………………………….…………

………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Date:……………………………………………………

Thank you for your agreement to this request for support in developing new resource for learners and practitioners in Wales. Please contact if you have any queries in relation to the above.