Humanities 

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 Geography – Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Swansea

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

09.30 – 15.00

08/10/2025 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/zcjfiBinZvTst1cH7

10/02/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/LB6hbyZsLqLJxQZx5

22/06/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/SPYPmftF3YMjKnzg7

Contact Tom Basher: tom.basher@partneriaeth.cymru 

Heads of History – Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Swansea

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

09.30 – 15.00

22/10/2025 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/pRxaMnBJTQK9aVZGA

03/02/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/eV7UeDDQhj7Jwf2V9

15/06/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/yg1sEyCyJMmZ4xeq8

Contact Tom Basher: tom.basher@partneriaeth.cymru 

Heads of RVE – Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Swansea

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

09.30 – 15.00

18/11/2025 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/TGKjeKnrACDHEf5z7

02/03/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/mUPkLU6WB9wnKCQo9

16/06/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/rmzPgYyjDGMNELBJ9

Contact Jennifer Harding-Richards: jennifer.harding-richards@swansea.gov.uk 

Target audience: Leads in primary schools and settings

‘Curriculum for Wales: The journey to 2022’ sets out consistent expectations for schools and settings for the process of designing and implementing their curricula.  

The Curriculum for Wales Implementation plan sets out shared aspirations – which describe what the education system should look like in the long-term, as a result of schools and settings designing and implementing their curricula. Practitioners should have the space to develop and use their teaching, agency and creativity to help realise their ambitions through the curriculum and enabling a space for AoLE leads within primary settings to discuss learning and teaching that enables all learners to realise the aspirations of the four purposes is key.  

Only by creating opportunity for practitioners to own the reform process in their schools and settings, for them to feel valued and empowered by that process, and to feel motivated to contribute to its continuing development, can we ensure the long-term success of Curriculum for Wales.  

The Primary AoLE Leads network will allow opportunity for all to share, discuss and enhance knowledge and understanding of the unique needs of all mandatory AoLEs and the skills to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of each AoLE within their schools. Practitioners will develop pedagogical knowledge that supports the effective delivery of each AoLE, ensuring all learners will make progress.  

• Attendees will engage with and have a better understanding of each AoLE in order to design their local curriculum

• Attendees will have a deeper understanding of progression within each AoLE  

• Attendees will develop pedagogical knowledge in order to support effective design and implementation of each AoLE.  

• Attendees will develop skills and understanding to become reflective AoLE leads in order to monitor and evaluate each AoLE  

• Attendees will decide content for networks and have opportunities to share Curriculum for Wales experiences

Event details:

Primary Network Meetings

09.30 – 15:00 

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

12/11/2025 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/A8UmjdVNvwPvrFqR7

10/03/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/GV8vYc5tapWyrRPQ9

08/06/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/YK2YyzBxnKStTbkg6

Target audience: Humanities teachers from Year 4 to 8 

The first statement of what matters in the Humanities, ‘enquiry, exploration and investigation inspire curiosity about the world, its past, present and future’, puts a clear emphasis on the need for practitioners to develop appropriate disciplinary approaches to enquiries where learners are challenged to be curious and to question, to think critically and to reflect upon evidence. 

This professional learning is a repeat of the very successful session run in 2024 and will explore the different parts of the enquiry cycle and the effective ways to support your learners to develop the skills of enquiry, questioning, interpretation, critical thinking, and analysis, and how this can be developed progressively in the curriculum. 

• Attendees will develop a clear understanding of the enquiry cycle. 

• Attendees will consider the different disciplinary approaches to the stages of enquiry. 

• Attendees will explore pedagogies that support the learners to develop the various skills of enquiry. 

• Attendees will consider how these skills are developed progressively across the curriculum, with a particular focus on progression steps 2, 3 and 4. 

Comments from last year: 

“Genuinely one of the best days I have ever attended.” 

“Lots of practical options to take back and use immediately which is useful for where our school is at on its curriculum journey.” 

Event details:

24/11/2025

09:30 - 15:00

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ 

https://forms.gle/PpnTz9hpg5MqY1D96