English 

Target audience: Secondary middle leaders

These termly networks provide opportunities for leaders to collaborate across Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Swansea. Attendees receive updates and training on :

1. Teaching and learning – subject specific pedagogy, resources and other school examples shared to support middle leaders in driving improvements in their own departments

2. Curriculum – mandatory elements of Curriculum for Wales and practical guidance on how to implement these messages effectively as middle leaders  to support teachers in their departments

3. Qualifications - updates from Qualifications Wales and specific WJEC GCSE examination series. Opportunities to discuss wider qualification reform

4. Leadership – supporting middle leaders in undertaking their roles effectively: looking at quality assurance processes, self-evaluation, GCSE and A Level administration and improvement planning

• All delegates will have an improved understanding of their roles as middle leaders in securing and driving improvement in their areas of responsibility

• All middle leaders will have an improved understanding around curriculum and qualification reform

• All middle leaders will discuss and hear examples of current and effective teaching and learning strategies appropriate to their subjects

• All middle leaders will have an opportunity to share and hear examples of effective practice of either middle leadership, teaching and learning or curriculum/qualification reform

Event details:

Heads of English – Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

09:30 - 15:00

06/10/2025 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/hui9mrabs6xAjfAU8

13/01/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/MBmEPv1LRsoNveMJA

23/06/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/wiVhDEhzFu6DNtbQ6

Heads of English – Swansea

Waterfront Church, Swansea SA1 8QY 

09:30 - 15:00

02/10/2025 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/AqqfYE99n5MQbpCg7

14/01/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/Z3VYsURBfFsdFB5K7

24/06/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/zRJcsfztpcz6rsBy5

Target audience: Secondary Literacy Leads  

The mandatory cross-curricular skill of literacy is essential for learners to be able to access knowledge. It enables learners to access the breadth of a school’s curriculum and the wealth of opportunities it offers, equipping them with the lifelong skills to realise the four purposes.   

Literacy is at the centre of all highly effective classrooms and plays an integral role in allowing learners to embody the four purposes and better their life chances. Therefore, Partneriaeth schools need a network that facilitates to the coordination and drive of literacy improvement across secondary schools.    

This professional learning opportunity will provide secondary literacy leads with strategies and ideas to develop literacy across the curriculum and improve the quality of teaching of literacy.   

There is a meeting for all secondary literacy co-ordinators in the summer term. Co-ordinators are welcome to contact Jane Shilling, Emma Wright or Lowri Davies for any support requirements at any point during the year.

• All leaders will have an opportunity to share effective practice around high quality literacy initiatives.  

• All leaders will receive up to date messages around effective literacy development, which are informed by current research and practical classroom ideas.  

• All leaders will have a better understanding of their roles in driving and improving literacy in their settings.   

• All leaders will use the resources and messages from these meetings to improve the quality of teaching and learning of literacy within their settings.   

• When appropriate, all leaders will have opportunities to take part in quality assurance processes to monitor and evaluate standards of literacy and plan for improvements.  

• All leaders will have opportunities to network with other leaders of literacy across the Partneriaeth region.  

Event details:

Secondary Literacy Leads

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

09:30 – 15:30

17/06/2025

Registration link: https://forms.gle/7US4xdykUTTa6YW88 

Target audience: All secondary English teachers, including NQTs, early career teachers and non-specialist teachers. 

Join us in a day of professional learning on how to successfully deliver the new WJEC Single and Double award specification, and how to build towards it successfully in KS3. 

This professional learning opportunity will ensure practitioners have a full understanding of the demands of the new specification and how these can be realised in the classroom: 

• Practitioners will have a better understanding of the new subject specification

• Practitioners will develop confidence, skills and strategies to support improved learner outcomes

• Practitioners will gain a clearer awareness of the specific needs of the units of the GCSE and how best to meet them

• Practitioners will developed a clearer understanding of the demands of the reading questions types for both examined Units, and NEA, and will have strategies to improve the learning and teaching

• Practitioners will have experience of marking a range of sample answers, which can be used with learners to exemplify standards

• Practitioners will develop a clearer understanding of the demands of literary and non-literary writing and will have strategies to improve the learning and teaching of these in the classroom 

• Practitioners will be able to share resources and strategies within departments

Event details:

02/12/2025  

09:30 – 15:30 

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ 

Registration link: https://forms.gle/GkB8ERf1ADGhxDG57