 Cors carlam is a teaching approach that was designed to enable pupils to come from English medium primary schools to develop the linguistic skills in the Welsh language so that they're fluent by the time they leave the comprehensive. The idea behind it is that by the time they're in year nine, so after three years in the comprehensive school, the pupils will be in a position to sit their GCSEs in Welsh language and they will then go on in year 10 and 11 to study for their AS in Welsh language. Beyond that they will leave the school then ready to go into further education or employment with the language skill developed. The Cors carlam obviously gives the pupils an opportunity to immerse themselves in the Welsh language and to hear the Welsh language within the classroom and around school and the extracurricular activities that we have on offer and also to gain two extra qualifications early. We have two transition teachers employed by the school in the primary school, so they're involved with teaching the pupils on a weekly basis. They are then involved with working in collaboration with the primary school teachers and assessing them on a two-in-lay basis in the language skills, reading, writing and oracy of course with the main emphasis on oracy within the key stage two. At the end of year six their results with regards to the key stage two levels in Welsh second language as well as teacher assessments across the board in the core subjects and CAT scores then decide which pupils are going to go as suitable for the fast track class. With any language it's about speaking and it's about gaining that confidence. So giving them as enough opportunities to hear and use the Welsh language is of the utmost importance and that is why we teach those five other subjects through bilingualy as well. That would be history, RE, PE, PSE so that they can hear the language all the time. Doing other subjects through the medium of Welshers I think widened our grasp of that subject and given us a more complex grasp of that subject. I mean in terms of Welsh giving us a wider vocabulary. I think it's definitely improved my confidence linguistically and just in communication and teamwork in skills. I thought it'd be quite a hard transition because I'm from an English medium primary school but I found that it was quite easy because you're not on your own, you've got all the teachers helping you as well and then soon you're doing subjects in Welsh like history, geography and RE and soon you remember words in history like Canary, Vicentry and Hwildro's Revolution so it was much easier than I thought it was going to be. The results with regards to Welsh at key stage three, four and five are excellent and well above national averages and local authority averages so I definitely think that it's benefited the school and the pupils in general.