Eto i gyd, er bod llawer o'r ysgolion hyn wedi cyflawni cryn gynnydd rwy'n cydnabod bod llawer iawn i'w wneud o hyd. Canolbwyntiodd blwyddyn gyntaf Her Ysgolion Cymru ar sicrhau bod gan yr holl ysgolion y sylfeini cywir ar gyfer meithrin gwelliannau cyflym a chynaliadwy yn yr hirdymor. Mae pob ysgol yn datblygu ar wahanol gyflymder, fodd bynnag, ac felly mae pob un wedi elwa ar ddull sydd wedi’i deilwra’n arbennig ar eu cyfer. Roedd gofyn i rai ysgolion gyflawni newidiadau sylweddol a strwythurol er mwyn mynd i'r afael â'r materion a oedd wedi bodoli ers amser hir ac a oedd wedi arwain at eu hamgylchiadau heriol, a hynny weithiau dros gyfnod hir o amser. Yn naturiol felly mae’r cynnydd o fewn yr ysgolion hyn o ran canlyniadau arholiadau ar ddiwedd y flwyddyn gyntaf wedi bod yn gyfyngedig. O ystyried y newidiadau strwythurol sydd wedi’u hysgogi rhagwelir y bydd gwelliannau pellach yn cael eu gweld yn ystod ail flwyddyn y rhaglen.
While many of these schools have made significant progress, I acknowledge that there is still much to be done. The focus of year one of Schools Challenge Cymru was on ensuring that all of them had the right foundations in place upon which to build rapid and sustainable improvement for the long-term. However, each of the schools is at a different stage of its development and therefore each has benefitted from a highly tailored approach. For some schools, this has involved significant and structural changes to address the deep-rooted issues that had led to their challenging circumstances, sometimes over a sustained period of time. Unsurprisingly, progress in these schools in relation to examination results at the end of the first year has been limited.  However, given the structural changes that have now been instigated, it is anticipated that further improvements will be seen during the second year of the programme.