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:

Heads of English – Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire  - 9/10/24 9.30am – 3.00pm 

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

Registration link - https://forms.gle/1yTZZd6A4SaPKtJu6

Heads of English – Swansea - 8/10/24 , 9.30am – 3.00pm 

Dilwen Room, Sketty Hall, Sketty Lane, Swansea, SA2 8QF

Registration link - https://forms.gle/CE72KvUtaADWW1Px8

Heads of English – Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire - 29/01/24 9.30am – 3.00pm

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

Registration link - https://forms.gle/hCo5z9kLu2i4dmpi6

Heads of English – Swansea - 27/01/25, 9.30am – 3.00pm 

Patti Room, Sketty Hall, Sketty Lane, Swansea, SA2 8QF

Registration link - https://forms.gle/LqNxYJZnoYYNpi4b7

Heads of English – Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire - 07/07/25 9.30am – 3.00pm

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

Registration link - https://forms.gle/hhaWNtRZSj1Ut4K89

Heads of English – Swansea - 03/07/25 9.30am – 3.00pm

Sheldon Room, Sketty Hall, Sketty Lane, Swansea, SA2 8QF

Registration link - https://forms.gle/FKBooURyweSCCV8N9

Target audience: NQTs, Early career teachers, non-specialist teachers, teachers returning to teach the specification. 

A day of professional learning on key aspects of delivering English within the classroom, specifically designed for NQTs, early professional development teachers, and non-specialists.  

This professional learning opportunity will ensure practitioners have a clear understanding of the demands of delivering English in the classroom, and the skills that learners need to develop.

This day supports practitioners to develop an understanding of how to effectively structure an English lesson to enable progression, effective questioning, reading, and the teaching of poetry:

• Practitioners will have a better understanding of the English subject skills.

• Practitioners will have developed a clearer understanding of the strategies to improve the learning and teaching of these in the classroom, particularly via use of teacher questioning.

• Practitioners will have experience of reflecting on how to structure a lesson in line with best practice. 

• Practitioners will leave with a range of strategies to improve the engagement of learners and varied approaches to use in the classroom to support learners to make progress.

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

• Practitioners will be able to share resources and strategies departmentally.

Event details:

Thursday 17th October

Taf, Halliwell, Trinity St David, Carmarthen

https://forms.gle/wqce1WtQcKqJV8PD8

Target audience: All teachers, including NQTs, Early career teachers, non-specialist teachers, teachers returning to teach the specification. 

A day of professional learning on how to successfully deliver the writing elements of WJEC GCSE English Language and new Single and Double award specification, and how to build towards these in KS3.

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

• Practitioners will have a better understanding of the subject specifications.

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

• Practitioners will have a range of strategies to improve the quality of writing for both GCSE exams and NEA, as well as within KS3.  

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

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

• Practitioners will have an improved understanding of WJEC resources to support learning and teaching and up to date messages from the examination board. 

Event Details:

Monday 2nd December 2024.

Y Llwyfan, Carmarthen

https://forms.gle/AxG3HXP9px3cWh947

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

Target audience: All teachers, including NQTs, Early career teachers, non-specialist teachers, teachers returning to teach the specification. 

A day of professional learning on how to successfully deliver reading in the English classroom from KS3 to KS4, to support the existing specifications for GCSE English Language and Literature, and the new Single and Double Award specification.

This professional learning opportunity will ensure practitioners have a deeper understanding of the demands of teaching reading skills for both Literature and Language, and how this is realised in the classroom.

• Practitioners will have a better understanding of the subject specifications.

• Practitioners will have developed a clearer understanding of the demands of the questions types for both examined Units, NEA and the new specification, and will have strategies to improve the learning and teaching of these in the classroom.

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

• Practitioners will leave with a range of strategies to improve the engagement of learners with texts, and varied approaches to use in the classroom to reading extended literature texts, for both KS3 and GCSE.

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

• Practitioners will be able to share resources and strategies departmentally.

• Practitioners will have an improved understanding of WJEC resources to support learning and teaching and up to date messages from the examination board.

Event Details

5 March 2025                     9.30am – 3.30pm

Halliwell Centre, Carmarthen SA31 3EP

https://forms.gle/WipnVXAUzNForDcY8