Science 

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

Contact - david.bradley@partneriaeth.cymru 

Event details:

Heads of Science Carmarthenshire

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

10.00 – 15:00

14/10/2025 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/ixaLpJC7uKxsjdLb6

03/03/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/XFLrFrxYPxn5r5VG8

24/06/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/iyxmB11Rjw7cYA35A

Heads of Science Pembrokeshire

The Archives, Haverfordwest SA61 2PE

10.00 – 15:00

13/10/2025 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/zNFwieQh88SU4r828

05/3/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/AJKvdmoyA4oSwiqM6

26/06/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/XsDGxoK5jr11Ka4V7  

Heads of Science Swansea

Dylan Thomas School, John Street, Cockett, Swansea, SA2 0FR

10.00 – 15:00

17/10/2025 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/xDJDu6GdwePyh2tS6

06/03/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/6fKRfW4injG4PfQj9

23/06/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/y9e2smvVZk7NwSS59

Target audience: AoLE 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 termly 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 termly networks and have opportunities to share Curriculum for Wales experiences.

Contact - stuart.jacob@partneriaeth.cymru 

Event details:

Please attend the network for your Local Authority  

Primary Network Meetings - Swansea Primary Schools

09.30 – 14:45

Waterfront Church, Swansea SA1 8QY

22/10/2025 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/zoC1sp9V4jcCCdkz8

11/03/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/SFeWYMwreLqaTKDL9

01/07/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/5zQezkJZmQSShp4z8

Primary Network Meetings - Carmarthenshire Primary Schools

09.30 – 14:45

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

20/10/2025 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/PPYTCML32acoiW4f7

09/03/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/3GLzxVNzpxXwEy6R9

29/06/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/EThuqTkMU1nDyXvv6

Primary Network Meetings - Pembrokeshire Primary Schools

09.30 – 14:45

The Archives, Haverfordwest SA61 2PE

23/10/2025 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/QwgrxS4uByRk57hNA

10/03/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/WdpPnMbGnMu7G1Cc9

30/06/2026 - Registration link: https://forms.gle/JZ1Ay1G2BtVTaYu2A

The session will focus on Biology (Statement of What Matters 3) in Curriculum for Wales and consider where and when the learners’ investigative skills can be developed most effectively. The following aspects (threads) will provide the content for the day across Progression Steps 1-4: 

• Biological Processes 

• Ecosystems 

• Variation & Evolution 

• Human Health  

Each of these will be discussed in detail and editable resources will be provided to support their teaching and learning. 

Event details:

17/11/2025 

09:30 – 15:30 

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ 

https://forms.gle/tbzzqTWRRDrh1Qho7 

The session will focus on Physics (Statement of What Matters 5) in Curriculum for Wales and consider where and when the learners’ investigative skills can be developed most effectively. The following aspects (threads) will provide the content for the day across Progression Steps 1-4: 

• Electricity & Magnetism 

• Forces 

• Energy 

• The Universe 

• Waves 

Each of these will be discussed in detail and editable resources will be provided to support their teaching and learning. 

Event details:

23/03/2026 

09:30 – 15:30 

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ 

https://forms.gle/7Zj5R48Ht2rUysmm6 

The session will focus on Chemistry (Statement of What Matters 4) in Curriculum for Wales and consider where and when the learners’ investigative skills can be developed most effectively. The following aspects (threads) will provide the content for the day across Progression Steps 1-4: 

• Chemical Reactions 

• Properties of Materials 

• Extraction, Refinement and Analysis 

Each of these will be discussed in detail and editable resources will be provided to support their teaching and learning. 

Event details:

13/07/2026 

09:30 – 15:30 

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ 

https://forms.gle/mhWGEdmRegmbZu5o6