14/04/2017 BBC Wales Today

Good evening.

A teaching union is calling for the Welsh Government to delay

the start of the new school curriculum, because they say staff

won't have had time to learn the new skills required

to implement it.

The National Union of Teachers, which is holding its national

conference in Cardiff, says a significant proportion

of their members believe change is happening too quickly.

Nick Palit reports.

The new curriculum proposed by Professor Graham Donaldson

heralds the biggest shake-up of education in a generation.

With learning divided into six areas, from the expressive arts

to science and technology.

Covering pupils from the age of three right up to 16,

it will expect all teachers to deliver learning and literacy,

numeracy, and digital competency - that's IT skills.

It's less focused on formal testing and aims to give

teachers more flexibility in tailoring their lessons around

a central curriculum.

However, one union believes its implementation should be delayed,

as a survey revealed teachers just aren't ready for it to be fully

up and running by 2021.

We know, for example, that some 45% of teachers do not

feel confident with regards to the introduction

of the new digital competency framework, which is coming in,

the first level of the new curriculum that's coming in.

A higher proportion, 71% of supply teachers and nearly

40% of schoolteachers lacked confidence or understanding

of Donaldson itself and what is proposed.

68 pioneer schools were chosen to lead the way in developing

the new curriculum, and more have followed.

The unions say, though they are fully in favour

of the changes, there is confusion about what they're

actually expected to do.

They want Education Secretary Kirsty Williams to review

the way the new curriculum will be introduced.

The Welsh Government says it is collectively

appraising progress.

A 21-year-old man has been arrested after a woman was seriously injured

last night in Llanelli.

The 19-year-old is said to be in a critical condition

after the incident on Graig Avenue.

Police are appealing for anyone who was in the area between

5pm and 7pm to get in touch.

Plans to reduce the time it takes for people with hearing loss

to receive surgery have been announced by the Health Secretary.

Vaughan Gething says he's halving the waiting time target for hearing

implant surgery to 26 weeks.

Natural Resources Wales says it's "almost certain"

there'll be legal action, after a pollution incident

on the River Teifi near Tregaron in December.

NRW says all the salmon and sea trout in a two-mile stretch

of the river were killed.

Anglers and businesses in the area have been calling for more

information about the precise impact of what's thought to have

been a slurry leak.

We were told that six or seven miles of river was affected,

but what we don't know, the information we haven't got is,

what about the salmon and eggs that were in the bottom of the river?

Also, more importantly, the invertebrates,

which is the trouts' food, has that been affected?

BBC Wales has learned a major hotel chain will make a decision early

next month about whether to pull out of a move to Newport City Centre.

The site developer says Premier Inn has concerns about noise

from a nearby nightclub.

Similar tensions between developers and music venues are

being seen in Cardiff.

Now there are calls for a change in the law, to protect music venues

and the multi-million-pound music tourism economy.

Jordan Davies has more.

"The heartbeat of live music" -

"the epicentre of grassroots music" -

descriptions of Cardiff's Womanby Street,

for years, the go-to place for new Welsh music,

like Gulp here.

But there's concern this may be under threat.

People could move into those buildings there, flats there,

flats there, flats there, and complain about the noise

and get us eventually shut down.

It is akin to moving to Grimsby, the biggest fishing port in England,

and saying, "I don't like the smell of fish," and stopping that.

Some people want this street recognised for the important it

plays in the night-time economy.

Permission has been granted for a Wetherspoons hotel to be

built here above the pub.

Some are worried that if more hotels and flats are built here,

there will be more noise complaints, which may affect live music here.

But others say we need more hotels and flats.

Planners say the rooms here must be soundproofed.

One Cardiff MP thinks grassroots music should have the same status

as theatres or operas.

We would like to see the Agent Of Change principle

introduced, which would have to be done through

the National Assembly, so, for example, if you were a developer

and you want to build some residential premises here,

you would have to and make sure that all the soundproofing was done,

because you wouldn't be able to then rely on complaints about noise

from existing activities.

In Newport, too, there's tension.

The developer of this site, who received nearly ?500,000

of Welsh Government money, has told me Premier Inn

may pull out of Newport as early as next month,

because of the noise coming from the club next door.

The developer says he is trying to resolve the situation.

One, two, one, two.

Iftekhar Harris owns the club next door.

He is concerned that venues like his are under threat.

There is a solution, but the solution involves them doing

quite a bit of work.

It is our heritage, you know?

Wales is renowned for music, and we're in danger

of losing all of that.

The Welsh Government say the rules around planning and streets

like this are being looked at.

The challenge for the authorities is balancing people's passion

for live music with the changing needs of modern cities.

Football, and a 1-0 win for Newport County against Yeovil

means they're just one point away from moving out of the relegation

zone in League Two.

In the championship, mid-table Cardiff City lost 1-0

to Sheffield Wednesday.

And despite an early lead, Wrexham lost 3-1 to Maidstone United.

Cricket, and after the first day of Glamorgan's County Championship

match against Worcestershire at the Swalec Stadium, the home side

were bowled out for 207.

The visitors finished the day on 180-4 -

that's 27 runs behind with six wickets remaining.

Time for a look at the Easter weekend weather now.

Good evening.

Mixed fortunes for Easter weekend.

Tomorrow is a brighter day.

Brighter spells on Sunday but rain for some, improving again on Monday.

Overnight, rain and drizzle moving eastwards, cloudy for a time.

Turning clearer and chillier overnight,

with lows of four to eight Celsius.

A touch of rural frost possible tomorrow, and a chilly start,

but turning into a largely fine day.

Similar across the UK.

A bit cloudier where fronts linger in the south, but, for many,

some brighter spells are developing.

Also a few showers, though, across the north-west of Scotland

and Northern Ireland, and even wintry in the hills.

Brisk, north-westerly winds making it feel cold.

Top temperatures between nine Celsius in north-east Scotland

and 15 Celsius in south-east England.

For Wales, variable cloud, some sunny spells, and just the odd

isolated shower possible.

Brisk north-westerly winds keeping things relatively cool,

between just 10 Celsius in Conwy and 12 Celsius in Swansea.

Mostly fine tomorrow, thanks to high pressure from the south.

Then these fronts to the north and west will edge closer

overnight, and bring in more into the day on Sunday.

So a greater chance of rain for north and mid-Wales.

Brighter in the south and drying up almost later on.

Blustery, though, and not too warm.

In fact, at ten to 13 Celsius, Easter Day will be a couple

of degrees colder than Christmas Day.

Now, any cloud and rain early Monday should clear,

turning drier and brighter, but the cool and north-westerly

winds are there again.

So, some sunshine for Easter weekend,

especially Saturday and Monday.

Rain for some on Easter Sunday, but remaining cool and breezy.

We'll be back with our next update at 6.20pm tomorrow evening.

From all of us here, have a lovely Easter weekend.

Goodnight.