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.

Event details:

20/10/23 09:30-15:00
Teifi, Halliwell Centre, Carmarthenshire SA31 3EP
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26/02/24 09:30-15:00
Teifi, Halliwell Centre, Carmarthenshire SA31 3EP
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18/06/24 09:30-15:00
Teifi, Halliwell Centre, Carmarthenshire SA31 3EP
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Kate Andrews Mathematics and Numeracy AoLE kate.andrews@partneriaeth.cymru

Joanne Hudson-Williams Mathematics and Numeracy AoLE joanne.hudson-williams@partneriaeth.cymru

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 providing 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:

09:30-15:00

03/10/23 Carmarthenshire / Pembrokeshire
Y Llwyfan, College Rd, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ
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09/10/23 Swansea
Vivian Hall, Dylan Thomas centre, Swansea SA1 1RR
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01/02/24 Carmarthenshire / Pembrokeshire
Queens Hall, Narberth SA67 7AS
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09/02/24 Swansea
Vivian Hall, Dylan Thomas centre, Swansea SA1 1RR
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01/07/24 Carmarthenshire / Pembrokeshire
Y Llwyfan, College Rd, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ
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02/07/24 Swansea
Vivian Hall, Dylan Thomas centre, Swansea SA1 1RR
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Kate Andrews Mathematics and Numeracy AoLE kate.andrews@partneriaeth.cymru

Joanne Hudson-Williams Mathematics and Numeracy AoLE joanne.hudson-williams@partneriaeth.cymru

Target audience: Secondary practitioners working with learners in Years 7, 8 and 9.

Pedagogy is at the heart of curriculum where learning and teaching considers the ‘why’ and ‘how’ as well as the ‘what’. Progression in the Mathematics and Numeracy Area of Learning and Experience (Area) involves the development of five connected and interdependent proficiencies; Conceptual understanding, Communication using symbols, Fluency, Logical reasoning, and Strategic competence.

Mathematical concepts and ideas should be built on, deepened and connected as learners experience increasingly complex mathematical ideas. In addition, recognising mathematical structure within a problem and formulating problems mathematically in order to be able to solve them relies on an understanding of the ideas and disciplines within areas of learning and experience alongside a depth of knowledge. Therefore, it is vital that practitioners have a deep understanding of the mathematical concepts which underpin learning and the pedagogical approaches to develop this, to ensure learner understanding and progression in Mathematics and Numeracy.

This professional learning will explore the key mathematical concepts in each of the statements of what matters and the pedagogical approaches to support the teaching of these concepts. Important considerations for the language, misconceptions, representations, strategies and resources used will be identified and examined.

• Secondary practitioners will consider the key vocabulary and language required to deepen learner understanding.

• Secondary practitioners will identify the misconceptions learners have and develop strategies to expose and eliminate them in the classroom.

• Secondary practitioners will gain a deeper understanding of the mathematical concepts and pedagogical approaches to develop learner understanding and will have the confidence to implement these approaches in the classroom.

• Secondary practitioners will explore a variety of teaching strategies and representations which develop learner understanding. 

• Secondary practitioners will examine a wide range of resources which promote mathematical thinking. 

Event details:

4th December 2023 09:30-15:00
Exploring the mathematical concepts in Number and Geometry/Measures.
Teifi, Halliwell Centre, Carmarthen SA31 3EP
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16th April 2024 09:30-15:00
Exploring mathematical concepts in Statistics and Algebra. 
Teifi, Halliwell Centre, Carmarthen SA31 3EP
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Kate Andrews Mathematics and Numeracy AoLE kate.andrews@partneriaeth.cymru

Joanne Hudson-Williams Mathematics and Numeracy AoLE joanne.hudson-williams@partneriaeth.cymru

Target audience: Practitioners working with learners in Years 1, 2 and 3.

Curriculum for Wales requires schools and practitioners to collaborate to identify and share arrangements for assessment which are embedded in day-to-day practice and which inform planning for progression.  

In Mathematics and Numeracy there are five new proficiencies in Curriculum for Wales which are the mandatory principles of progression. In addition, the online personalised assessments in numeracy reasoning assess learners in these five proficiencies. 

This working group follows a successful project in 2022/23 that focussed on assessing learners in years 6- 9 in the five proficiencies.  The primary practitioners who attended this group in 2022/23 requested a similar working group with a focus on developing assessments for years 1-3.

This working group will explore how the proficiencies might be used to guide assessment in Mathematics and Numeracy and support schools as they design their curriculum.

• Practitioners in Years 1, 2 and 3 collaborate across the region for two days as part of the Assessment working group to develop a deeper understanding of progression and assessment in the five proficiencies in Mathematics and Numeracy.

• Practitioners will be informed about the proficiencies from Acumina, who write the questions in the online personalised assessments for numeracy reasoning and the class-based resources.

• Practitioners will create, find and adapt questions to support progression and assessing in Mathematics and Numeracy.

• Practitioners will have the opportunity to explore class-based resources that have been created to support practitioners in planning for progression. 

Event details:

Two days

Day 1 09/11/23
Taf, Halliwell Centre, Carmarthenshire SA31 3EP
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Day 2 28/11/23
Taf, Halliwell Centre, Carmarthenshire SA31 3EP
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Kate Andrews Mathematics and Numeracy AoLE kate.andrews@partneriaeth.cymru

Joanne Hudson-Williams Mathematics and Numeracy AoLE joanne.hudson-williams@partneriaeth.cymru

Target audience: Secondary practitioners working with learners in Years 7-9

Progression in the Mathematics and Numeracy Area of Learning and Experience (Area) involves the development of five connected and interdependent proficiencies:

1. Conceptual understanding

2. Communication using symbols

3. Fluency

4. Logical reasoning, 

5. Strategic competence. 

Mathematical representations are an important component of the proficiencies.

Learners demonstrate conceptual understanding in Mathematics and Numeracy by being able to represent a concept in different ways, flowing between different representations including verbal, concrete, visual, digital and abstract. As learners experience increasingly complex concepts, they apply logical reasoning about the relationships between and within these concepts, and justifications and proof become increasingly abstract, moving from verbal explanations, visual or concrete representations to abstract representations involving symbols and conventions.

Therefore, it is vital that practitioners have a deep understanding of the concrete manipulatives and visual representations available, and how they can be utilised, to ensure learner understanding and progression in Mathematics and Numeracy.

This professional learning will explore how mathematical representations may be used to guide the teaching and learning in Mathematics and Numeracy and support schools as they design their curriculum.

• Secondary practitioners will explore a variety of concrete manipulatives to support the learning and understanding of a range of mathematical concepts.

• Secondary practitioners will consider the usefulness of a variety of pictorial representations of mathematical thinking.

• Secondary practitioners will examine how to effectively flow between different representations to support learner progression in mathematics and numeracy. 

Event details:

4th March 2024 09:30-15:00
Taf, Halliwell Centre, Carmarthen SA31 3EP
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Kate Andrews Mathematics and Numeracy AoLE kate.andrews@partneriaeth.cymru

Joanne Hudson-Williams Mathematics and Numeracy AoLE joanne.hudson-williams@partneriaeth.cymru

Target audience: All staff in schools and educational settings.

Partneriaeth are committed to providing quality bespoke and universal professional learning to all schools and settings across the region. Partneriaeth recognise the significant challenges facing schools at the moment and the difficulties many face when trying to facilitate staff to attend professional learning events. In order to try and mitigate these challenges Partneriaeth have scheduled online AoLE drop-in sessions.

These termly (these half termly) drop-in sessions have been scheduled to provide opportunities to speak with Partneriaeth officers leading on AoLE development and support. They are informal and by their nature will be responsive to the needs of those attending.

• Have an opportunity to raise concerns and be supported to find solutions. 

Event details:

18/10/2023 09.30-11.00
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20/02/2024 15.30-17.00
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06/05/2024 13.30-15.00
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Kate Andrews Mathematics and Numeracy AoLE kate.andrews@partneriaeth.cymru

Joanne Hudson-Williams Mathematics and Numeracy AoLE joanne.hudson-williams@partneriaeth.cymru