Curriculum : Pupil Wellbeing

Wellbeing is at our core and acts as the foundation to every facet of school life. 

This philosophy gives us a shared and tangible vision, providing context for reflections, decisions and developments at every level of the school community. 

Returning to school after lockdown presented us with many children displaying emotional fragility and subsequent behavioural challenges.

It was therefore essential that we developed a whole school approach and consistency across staff to nurture positive interactions, engagement and connection with our children.

The school has developed 'joined up thinking' permeating through policy and practice in key areas such as-

• Behaviour Management

• Positive and Respectful Relationships

• Attendance

• Transition

• Learning Environment

• Curriculum Design 

• Pupil Engagement

Staff have collaborated to refine understanding and develop a consistent approach when interacting with pupils, and particularly, when interacting with learners with emotional and behavioural challenges.  

We can share our journey, tools that have been invaluable to us and systems that help us to track, monitor and respond to the emotional needs of children, enabling them to become effective and confident individuals and learners.

Curriculum: Pupil Wellbeing

Beaufort Primary School is a happy and nurturing school that supports pupils and 

their families well. In our recent inspection report the school’s approach to developing health and well-being was described as being a strength. Along side CFW we utilise a number of programmes to support including: Beautiful Brain, Elsa and Trauma Informed approaches. Pupils are at the heart of all we do, their opinion's and ideas feed into our planning and each has termly meetings to discuss progress and set mutually agreed targets. We have a strong approach to pupil voice, with children in PS3 all being involved in school committees and we hold weekly  assemblies to celebrate achievements in and out of school.

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School to School

As an experienced head teacher and distributed senior leadership team,  we have the capacity to support a school with leadership including governance and support for teaching and learning. Our governing body is a strength of the school.  They are fundamental in the process of self evaluation and support the school through an established committee structure and carefully designed governor days. PL is important to the school and the governing body is included within this process. Support for teaching and learning would need to be discussed at an individual school basis.  We have a distributed leadership model that would provide the opportunity to support schools in a bespoke way 

Professional Learning:  Leadership and Teaching 

Blackwood Primary School is committed to providing the best learning experiences for our children in a no blame, risk taking culture where staff are encouraged to engage in research, professional enquiry and use external expertise. Staff view Professional Learning as an entitlement that supports and builds coherence linked to pedagogy and curriculum design.  Leaders consolidate what has been learned in a culture that encourages staff to use PL opportunities to evaluate and improve approaches to teaching and learning. 

PL is planned through a combination of  whole staff, phase, team and individual foci. Strong links with EAS have provided opportunities to work with different models of research.  As a result staff value the professional learning that has an impact on their teaching.  Leaders within the school recognise the importance of providing time and resources to enable effective professional learning and the senior leadership team and governors are committed to supporting all staff with their engagement in continuous professional development. We have a wealth of experience on which we are able to support colleagues through our extensive work as a PL regional and lead school over time and contribute to the regional professional learning offer for teaching assistants , teachers and leaders.

Curriculum : Early Years

The pedagogy of the Foundation Phase has been the main driver for the curriculum from nursery to year 6 at Blackwood Primary School. A strong focus for curriculum reform has been working on effective pedagogy to support independent learning for all pupils. Staff have worked over several years to ensure that pupils have the opportunity to apply, use, consolidate and extend skills using a blended learning approach.  The learning environment at Blackwood Primary School is a key enabler for the curriculum. It has been developed in such a way that encourages pupils to be independent, to have a say in their own learning and to take increasing responsibility for it. The areas within the learning environment have been designed to allow all pupils to experience authentic learning opportunities both indoors and outdoors. 

The role of the adult is extremely important when facilitating effective learning opportunities. Highly effective whole school PL has driven planning and assessment to support staff with progression throughout the school. We are able to offer support for nursery to year 2 but can also demonstrate how this pedagogy can be effective to embed real life skills up to year 6. 

Curriculum:  Global Future / International Languages  

Blackwood Primary School recognises the importance of developing international language skills in line with the objectives of the Curriculum for Wales. We are committed to collaboration with other schools in the EAS and beyond to share resources, knowledge, and expertise. Our International Languages lead ensures that we offer our pupils a wide range of languages and increased exposure to different cultures and ways of thinking. We believe that this is an important step towards creating a more inclusive learning environment that values all forms of communication.

Professional Learning:  Professional Learning Support School 

Blaenycwm Primary School is located in Brynmawr at the top of the Ebbw Valley in Blaenau Gwent. We are a 3-11 primary school and our catchment is Brynmawr, Nantyglo and Blania. The Four Purposes are integral to the way we deliver the Curriculum for Wales. Mathematics is taught to develop the skills and language of Mathematics, this knowledge and understanding is then transferred and developed through all of the AoLEs.  We will work with St Marys Church in Wales School in Brynmawr to deliver how we teach Mathematics and what works for the pupils who attend our school.

Professional Learning:  Professional Learning Support School 

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Curriculum: Anti-Poverty and Family and Community Engagement

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Professional Learning:  Professional Learning Support School 

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Curriculum: English / Literacy

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Professional Learning:  Professional Learning Support School 

The Federation of Blenheim Road Community and Coed Eva Primary Schools are able to provide support for 'Professional Learning - Leadership and Teaching' through:

• • Supporting new leaders and leadership teams.

  • Support to create a school vision. 

  • Support to create a bespoke professional learning and development offer for staff.

  • Utilising Welsh Government policies (NAPL, NPLE, Professional Standards for Teaching and Leadership, Hwb platform) within practice. 

  • Providing coaching and mentoring support. 

  • Supporting a whole-school approach to coaching and mentoring. 

  • Support for developing an inquiry approach.

  • Utilising Simon Breakspear agile leadership materials for designing professional learning. 

  • Coaching and mentoring for new and experienced professional learning leads. 

  • Supporting developing middle leadership and senior leadership roles. 

  • Providing support for teachers: pedagogy, designing a curriculum, implementation, supporting learner progression and development.

Curriculum: Anti-Poverty and Family and Community Engagement

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Professional Learning:  Professional Learning Support School 

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Curriculum: Diversity and Anti-Racism

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Curriculum: English / Literacy

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Professional Learning:  Professional Learning Support School 

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Curriculum: Anti-Poverty and Family and Community Engagement 

Gaer and Maesglas Primary School partnership recognises and values wellbeing for all our stakeholders. We have created a shared vision for learners and invested in our commitment to provide a calm, nurturing learning environment to support both emotional and mental wellbeing. In doing so, we create a strong foundation for all learners to feel safe, secure and ready to learn.

Curriculum: Mathematics 

Gaer and Maesglas Primary School Partnership recognises the importance of creating a considered and consistent approach to the leadership, teaching and learning of Numeracy and Mathematics. Our shared vision for Numeracy and Maths recognises the need for high quality professional learning and resourcing for learners. We advocate the use of resources to support the learners at concrete, pictorial and abstract levels of understanding and a progressive range of mental and written strategies to enable the learners to be confident and engaged with their learning of Numeracy and Mathematics and apply these skills across the curriculum. 

Curriculum: Welsh (English Medium) / Bilingualism

As Cymraeg Campus Arian schools, Gaer and Maesglas Primary School Partnership have engaged with EAS Cymraeg as an LNS school, to develop the teaching and learning of Welsh.  We have considered our approach to Cymraeg through professional learning and can offer 'Dewch i weld' events, networking events , action research case studies, oracy in the setting and school to school working.

School to School

School Improvement school to school support.

Curriculum: Whole school curriculum design / development 

Humanities support.

Professional Learning:  Professional Learning Support School 

George Street School provides a diverse educational experience, emphasizing outdoor learning. Our curriculum includes forest school and coastal school activities, fostering environmental awareness. Independent research-based learning is a cornerstone of the school's approach. Sports opportunities are abundant, further bolstered by outside agency collaborations. Language development is prioritized, with some members of staff attending Welsh Sabbatical and in turn, creating Welsh language games to enhance and progress oracy skills across the school. The school's commitment to inclusivity is evident, boasting an ALNCO with a wealth of experiences to support diverse learners. George Street School offers a holistic and enriching educational journey.

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Curriculum: Digital Competence  

Georgetown supports the EAS Digital Team with the delivery of the Digital Skills for Teaching Assistants Programme, Digital Leadership Programme and bespoke school to school support where needed. We are equipped to offer support on all Hwb tools e.g. Google, j2e, Adobe Spark etc. We also have Apple Certified Teachers and a Google for Education Trainer. Working with leaders and practitioners at all levels we aim to ensure we deliver digital professional learning that is tailored to individuals and individual schools. 

Curriculum: Early Years (N-Y2) 

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Curriculum: Pupil Wellbeing

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Curriculum: Health and Wellbeing AoLE  

Gilfach Fargoed and Park Primaries offer a variety of wellbeing support for pupils, from high quality, embedded “core” provision, to a range of specific interventions to support identified learners. The schools’ wellbeing team  has created a bespoke system for identifying learners who would benefit from additional support, and a means of judging the impact of interventions.  Our open event will allow practitioners to view our range of interventions and to see how identifying and tracking progress of interventions works in practice.  

Curriculum: Mathematics

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Professional Learning:  Professional Learning Support School 

Our school is a learning organisation where all leaders share a relentless drive for the pursuit of continuing excellence. The school’s ambitious mission to Excite, Challenge and Empower, is realised through three visionary principles:

• • To make learning irresistible

  • To strive for equity and excellence

  • To nurture our community

We have a whole school approach to wellbeing, underpinned by 5 key elements which help us in putting our vision into action; Safety, Belonging, Agency, Efficacy, Love and Care. We adopt a coaching and mentoring approach to professional development. We pride ourselves on the rich and varied opportunities for professional learning we both provide and engage in. We have developed a strong culture of inquiry and exploration across the school.

Curriculum: English / Literacy  

At Glan Usk we strive towards developing competent communicators who speak, read and write showing confidence and creativity throughout their literary journey.  We believe in nurturing independent learners through creative, purposeful and progressive sequential experiences that immerse the children in a world of curiosity and wonder.  Through these rich learning experiences, we encourage an appreciation of the culture, people and history for Wales, nurturing a sense of pride and belonging, whilst celebrating the diversity of our community.  Our consistent and progressive approach to planning and assessing Language, Literacy and Communication provides a robust climate to ensure progression of all.

Curriculum: Humanities  |  RVE

Our SHINE Curriculum is bespoke and reflects the diverse context of our school. It is research informed and is responsive to the needs of our school and current affairs both locally and worldwide.  As a cluster we have created a conceptual framework for Humanities which reflects our collective and individual school’s vision and rapidly changing contexts. Through our Humanities curriculum we encourage our pupils to become curious and ethically informed about the world in which they live, how it has changed and how it may change in the future. It is our intention that all pupils, irrelevant of needs, make sense of their physical world and their local community. Through immersive opportunities, pupils will explore, observe and investigate people, places and the environment. The conceptual framework  provides a balance of knowledge, skills and experiences in a geographical, historical and religious context that will shape pupils to make a positive change in an increasingly diverse and interconnected environment.

School to School

Glanhowy was a Lead Network School for Welsh (2nd Language), M&N, Leadership & Governance, Expressive Arts and Wellbeing. We pride ourselves in our whole school consistent approach to policy and procedure. Our positive school culture ensures all pupils access high quality teaching and learning every day, all pupils make at least good progress as a result. Staff are hardworking, humble and helpful with an array of skills. We enjoy partnership working and supporting schools to secure impact and sustainable improvement. We can offer bespoke professional learning opportunities and share our practices across the 3-11 year range. Having a long standing proven track record of building leadership capacity at all levels, we would be delighted to share with and support any school via an open, honest and transparent approach to creating a self improving system.

School to School

Sustained, highly effective leadership over many years has been key to the success of our school. Growing and developing staff through professional learning, ensuring clear roles and responsibilities and giving time and resources to do the job, support our effective distributed leadership model well. We have the capacity to support other schools in developing their leadership teams; middle leaders and senior leaders including governors. Governors skills and competencies are identified through a skills audit and are used to support their AOLE link roles. They are highly competent in participating  in whole school self evaluation and planning for improvement. 

Professional Learning:  Professional Learning Support School 

We have been a regional PL school for a number of years. This involves attending all EAS regional partner sessions and disseminating PL opportunities to schools across the cluster. We create opportunities for schools across the cluster to share the impact of any engagement in regional PL such as DARPL, Agile Leadership. We support the facilitation of national programmes delivered regionally such as the Middle Leadership and Senior Leadership programmes.  Over a number of years we have engaged in NPEP sharing research and enquiry projects regionally and nationally. More recently we have taken on the cluster enquiry lead role supporting schools across the cluster with engaging in research and enquiry. We have supported the NQT regional PL offer through NQT Live Practice events.

Curriculum: English / Literacy

Leadership and progress in learning in oracy, reading and writing in English have been strengths in our school for many years. We have the capacity to provide professional learning and to share our practice widely across the EAS in the following areas: Voice 21 oracy strategies; guided reading and reading responses; writing using rich texts including across the curriculum; Alan Peat sentences; writing revolution strategies for non - fiction writing.

Professional Learning:  Professional Learning Support School 

Leadership and Teaching: 

At Glyn-Gaer Primary we have a distributed leadership model that would provide the opportunity to support schools in a bespoke way. AOLE leads have processes in place to monitor the 'I can do' and 'I have experienced' aspects of the Curriculum for Wales, we incorporate pupil voice in all our work and believe Forest School/outdoor learning is one of our strengths. Our pedagogical approach is best shown through the TASC (Thinking Actively in a Social Context) method for which we are a training and assessment school.  Our self evaluation process is fully supported by a proactive Governing Body.

Curriculum: Welsh (English Medium) / Bilingualism

We would welcome practitioners to join us to see how we deliver Welsh in an English Medium setting to address the needs of our learners. Like many schools in Wales, here at Glyn-Gaer Primary we are steadily improving our bilingual skills using a range of activities e.g. games, pupil voice, book looks and workshops for parents. Through developing pupils' knowledge of vocabulary and sentence patterns through games and short activities, pupils have developed a passion for the language.  Come along to see for yourself!

Professional Learning:  Professional Learning Support School 

We have recently introduced an asymmetric week, so staff have 2 hours a week ringfenced PL time built into our calendar. 

Curriculum: Humanities

We have been innovative in our curriculum approaches and whilst we have discrete MD & LLC, and whilst Health & Wellbeing is knitted into everything we do, we have developed our ‘Vehicles’ approaches to take forward our Expressive Arts/STEM/Humanities in a way which promotes teacher autonomy, learner voice, authentic learning contexts & which involves stakeholders too. This is always done with an emphasis on our basic standards. 

Professional Learning:  Professional Learning Support School 

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School to School

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Curriculum: Welsh (English Medium) / Bilingualism

As a Cymraeg Campus Arian school, Hendre Junior School has engaged with the EAS Cymraeg team as an Partnership School since 2018 to develop teaching and learning of Welsh as a second language. 

Our school promotes a Welsh ethos through the use of incidental Welsh, where the language is at the heart of everything we do. We have adopted an approach to Cymraeg where through professional learning we offer ‘Dewch i Weld’ events, networking and best practice case studies to showcase how to enhance the Welsh language.  

Our 'Dewch i Weld' events demonstrate how we use bilingualism around the school to model the language and raise enjoyment and engagement, to enrich and add authenticity to the teaching and learning through making links to other areas of the curriculum. 

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Curriculum: Design and Technology  

We offer support in curriculum Design Technology, fostering hands-on skills and ideas through activities that bring together multiple AoLE skills in project based learning. We support digital design through TinkerCAD for 3D printing projects and also woodwork and construction projects looking at progression throughout the school phases. As a Minecraft Certified trainer, we can also offer computer science through the use of Minecraft in the classroom. Another feature we are able to support is the implementation of a school radio station to enhance all areas of the curriculum.

Curriculum: Science

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