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:

Cyswllt/Contact - lowri.davies@partneriaeth.cymru  

Penaethiaid Cymraeg  Partneriaeth (Iaith Gyntaf) 01/10/24, 9.30yb - 3.00yp

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

Registration link - https://forms.gle/b9DA9UznWNgjbXzw6

Penaethiaid Cymraeg Partneriaeth (Iaith Gyntaf) 07/10/24, 9.30yb - 3.00yp

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ 

Registration link - https://forms.gle/CUDnaafFHmybX2Tc8

Penaethiaid Cymraeg Partneriaeth (Iaith Gyntaf)  - 10/02/25, 9.30yb - 3.00yp

Y Llwyfan, Heol Y Coleg, Caerfyrddin SA31 3EQ

Registration link- https://forms.gle/ucgZrG5JtXhLxVqb8

Penaethiaid Cymraeg Partneriaeth (Iaith Gyntaf) - 12/02/25, 9.30yb - 3.00yp

Y Llwyfan, Heol Y Coleg, Caerfyrddin SA31 3EQ

Registration link - https://forms.gle/fx6yBJuySJpP1xPXA

Penaethiaid Cymraeg Partneriaeth (Iaith Gyntaf) - 26/06/25 9.30yb - 3.00yp

Ysgol y Strade, Heol Sandy, Llanelli    SA15 4DL

Registration link - https://forms.gle/Rrs5MbcZr4MAeiLE8

Penaethiaid Cymraeg Partneriaeth (Iaith Gyntaf) - 25/06/25 9.30yb - 3.00yp

Y Llwyfan, Heol Y Coleg, Caerfyrddin SA31 3EQ

Registration link - https://forms.gle/nrWXnVLEpr42ZYkVA

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:

Cyswllt/Contact - dyfed.williams@partneriaeth.cymru 

Cymraeg Cyfarfod Rhwydwaith Abertawe (Ail Iaith)  27/09/24, 9.30yb - 3.00yp

Penyrheol School, Pontardulais Road, Gorseinon, Swansea SA4 4FG 

Registration link - https://forms.gle/2nwJAc6eh9c4qfz77

Cymraeg Cyfarfod Rhwydwaith Sir Benfro + Sir Gar (Ail Iaith) 30/09/24, 9.30yb - 3.00yp

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

Registration link - https://forms.gle/kXwKFCt1PHGcGq6CA

Cymraeg Cyfarfod Rhwydwaith Sir Benfro a Sir Gâr (Ail Iaith)  - 03/02/25 9.30yb - 3.00yp

Y Llwyfan, Heol Y Coleg, Caerfyrddin SA31 3EQ

Registration link - https://forms.gle/prpVNxJrh4GUTHoY6

Cymraeg Cyfarfod Rhwydwaith Abertawe (Ail Iaith) - 06/02/25, 9.30yb - 3.00yp

Ysgol Olchfa, Heol Gŵyr,  Abertawe SA2 7AB

Registration link - https://forms.gle/87druKaeD1ancb9P7

Cymraeg Cyfarfod Rhwydwaith Sir Benfro a Sir Gâr (Ail Iaith)  - 30/06/25 9.30yb - 3.00yp

Y Llwyfan, Heol Y Coleg, Caerfyrddin SA31 3EQ

Registration link - https://forms.gle/CuL915XHm7jAqWNY6

Cymraeg Cyfarfod Rhwydwaith Abertawe (Ail Iaith) - 01/07/25 9.30yb - 3.00yp

Ystafell Patti, Plas Sgeti, Lôn Sgeti, Abertawe SA2 8QF 

Registration link - https://forms.gle/vw9S7ittP9mqVbMo8

Target Audience: Newly qualified teachers, teachers at the start of their career, non-specialist teachers, teachers returning to teach the subject.

To support local authority and Welsh Government’s priorities to ensure excellent learning and teaching, and support schools with professional development on the introduction of the Welsh language in the classroom.

Practitioners will develop effective approaches to explicitly teaching aspects of reading, writing and oracy within Curriculum for Wales.

This professional learning opportunity will foster an understanding of how to structure a Welsh lesson in an effective way, improving the quality of questioning and assessment.

Practitioners will leave with a variety of practical strategies for the classroom to improve learning and teaching.

The practitioners will

• leave with a range of strategies to improve learners' engagement, together with various methods to be used in the classroom to support learners to make progress in speaking, reading and writing.

• develop confidence, skills and strategies to support better outcomes for learners.

• share resources and strategies departmentally.

• reflect on their practice.

• collaborate and network with other new or non-specialist Welsh teachers and subject specialist in the region.

Event details:

Day 1 – Training Day

12 November 2024                   09:30-15:00 
Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ     
Book here

Day 2 – An opportunity to put the training into practice and reflect on personal progress.

Autumn/Spring term – Visit by the subject officer to the school

Day 3 – Training Day

2nd April 2025                          09:30-15:00 
Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ
Book here

Lowri Davies       Welsh Advisor      lowri.davies@partneriaeth.cymru 

Dyfed Williams    Welsh Advisor      dyfed.williams@partneriaeth.cymru 

Target Audience: Welsh Second Language and Welsh Heads of Department

Support teachers and Welsh departments in schools which will offer the Cymraeg Craidd and Cymraeg Craidd Ychwanegol from September 2025.

Those who attend will improve their understanding of the new course requirements including understanding and ideas of how to incorporate literature into their lessons.

Practitioners will leave with a variety of practical strategies for the classroom to improve teaching and learning.

Event Details:

17 June 2025      09:30-15:00

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

Archebwch yma 

Cyswllt/Contact - dyfed.williams@partneriaeth.cymru 

TARGET AUDIENCE: Upper primary and all secondary school teachers from all subjects.

DESCRIPTION: Current research and data shows that there is a strong link between standards of reading and learners’ ability to gain knowledge and deeper understanding in all subjects across the curriculum. Therefore, it is imperative that reading is seen as an important pedagogical tool to strengthen and deepen learners’ knowledge, skills and understanding across any curriculum.

The ‘Teaching Advanced Reading’ programme has been designed in collaboration with schools in Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Swansea to ensure a fit-for-purpose professional learning opportunity in how to explicitly teach reading skills successfully for upper primary and secondary school pupils.

The whole-day training is suited to any teacher looking to develop their approaches to classroom teaching of reading and gain further insight and practical advice on how to:

• Select challenging texts

• Incorporate and use relevant reading strategies in their classroom

•  Introduce and teach a text effectively

• How to question effectively when reading

These sessions will offer a clear balance of theory, practice and current examples from schools across the Partneriaeth region. This training will support schools in meeting the challenges of coordinating the progressive development of reading skills across different subjects and teachers.

Event Details

Y Llwyfan -  26th November 2024 – English Medium

https://forms.gle/eiqc2ioWH5RgoMDHA 

Y Llwyfan - 3rd December 2024 – Welsh Medium  

https://forms.gle/dPFk8yuf5pE6YvcG9