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 - david.bradley@partneriaeth.cymru

Heads of Science Carmarthenshire - 15/10/24 10.00am – 3.00pm

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

Registration link -  https://forms.gle/xXw14SQRV7BbZ3F99

Heads of Science Pembrokeshire - 16/10/24 10.00am – 3.00pm

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

Registration link - https://forms.gle/1jonFinNchCit35t5 

Heads of Science Swansea - 18/10/24 10.00am – 3.00pm

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

Registration link - https://forms.gle/NZYEWUjYoqgwQC9TA 

Heads of Science Carmarthenshire - 04/3/25 10.00am – 3.00pm

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

Registration link - https://forms.gle/iu2pwR735qaHcxxV8

Heads of Science Pembrokeshire - 05/3/25 10.00am – 3.00pm

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

Registration link - https://forms.gle/YgcLVNt4FkhdQSEq5

Heads of Science Swansea - 07/3/25 10.00am – 3.00pm

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

Registration link - https://forms.gle/YGswJCncL4xqW58f6

Heads of Science Carmarthenshire - 23/6/25 10.00am – 3.00pm

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

Registration link - https://forms.gle/SmK4ANEd5npy6KiAA

Heads of Science - Pembrokeshire - 18/6/25 10.00am – 3.00pm

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

Registration link - https://forms.gle/vcnQd5ZgYC543Z9E9

Heads of Science Swansea - 27/6/25 10.00am – 3.00pm

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

Registration link - https://forms.gle/tYa1hkfbxC47cHz4A

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 learnes 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:

Autumn Term 24

21 October 2024     9.30am – 3.30pm        Carmarthenshire Schools

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

https://forms.gle/XJavz8KwBoRSf3Xm7

22 October 2024     9.30am – 3.30pm         Pembrokeshire Schools

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

https://forms.gle/Uzg8ou4KPf86kTFB9

23 October 2024     9.30am – 3.30pm         Swansea Schools

Waterfront Church, Swansea SA1 8QY

https://forms.gle/4U6vSqmkGkjvNkkB7

Spring Term 2025

10 March 2025                   9.30am – 3.30pm        Carmarthenshire Schools

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

https://forms.gle/EhmNsUirsyaQ22zG7

11 March 2025                   9.30am – 3.30pm        Pembrokeshire Schools

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthenshire SA31 3EQ

https://forms.gle/5xDHi6ESYtvR9JJY9

13 March 2025                   9.30am – 3.30pm        Swansea Schools

Waterfront Church, Swansea SA1 8QY

https://forms.gle/7Yx9x62bYid2fGtU6

Summer Term 2025

2 July 2025 9.30am – 3.30pm           Carmarthenshire Schools

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

https://forms.gle/Tqu6e5hsdDtGGKia8

4 July 2025 09:30 - 15:30

Pembrokeshire Archives, Prendergast, Haverfordwest SA61 2PE

Ffurflen Gofrestru Dysgu Proffesiynol Professional Learning Registration Form (google.com) 

3 July 2025 9.30am – 3.30pm           Swansea Schools

Waterfront Church, Swansea SA1 8QY

https://forms.gle/qkyR1Pe81iyEyTry9

Target Audience: All teachers (3-16)

In this session we will be looking at how science can be approached, considered and delivered in the Curriculum for Wales by discussing:

·        What to teach and when (threads model)

·        How to deliver science and curriculum design

·        Assessment of science

·        Your setting and local curriculum

THIS IS A REPEAT OF PREVIOUS SESSIONS – THOSE WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY ATTENDED NEED NOT REGISTER

For more information contact: david.bradley@partneriaeth.cymru or stuart.jacob@partneriaeth.cymru

Event Details

11th November 2024                  9.30am – 3.30pm

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

https://forms.gle/DLajziKnxzVo72V89

Target Audience: Primary Teachers

 This research informed session focuses on 5 aspects which will improve science teaching in the primary classroom.  In response to findings by the Education Endowment Foundation, we will concentrate on developing:

·        Developing pupils’ scientific vocabulary

·        How to encourage pupils to explain their thinking

·        Guiding pupils to work scientifically

·        Relating new learning to relevant, real world contexts

·        Using assessment to support learning and responsive teaching

For more information contact: david.bradley@partneriaeth.cymru or stuart.jacob@partneriaeth.cymru

Event Details

20 January 2025                         9.30am – 3.30pm

Y Llwyfan, College Road, Carmarthen SA31 3EQ

https://forms.gle/PBzzVLZkqxmc6y8b6