📅 Date: Wednesday, 28th May
👥 Audience: Primary and Secondary Teachers
📍 Venue: TBC
💷 Supply Contribution: £250
🕘 Start Time: 9:00 AM
🕞 Finish Time: 3:30 PM
Sign-up Link: https://forms.office.com/e/TWrzTGAeRW?origin=lprLink

About the Event

Construct Your Future is a new CWRE professional learning opportunity designed to help schools bring the construction and built environment sectors to life for learners. With the sector evolving rapidly through digital technologies, sustainability, and modern methods of construction, this session will support teachers to explore authentic activities, resources, and partnerships that connect directly to Curriculum for Wales.

The day will provide practical ways to help learners understand how the places around them are designed, built, maintained, and transformed, and how their skills link to real careers.

What to Expect

Meet the Industry: Voices From the Construction Sector

Hear from a range of professionals representing different parts of the modern construction workforce. These may include:

• Site engineers, designers, architects, surveyors

• Apprentices in trades such as carpentry, plumbing, electrical, plastering

• Specialists in digital construction, 3D modelling, and drone surveying

• Sustainability and environmental advisors

Speakers will share:

• Real-life project stories

• Skills that matter now and in the future

• How technology is changing the sector

• What employers look for in young people

This creates live, authentic examples teachers can take back to the classroom.

Curriculum-Focused Workshops

Hands-on activities will help teachers explore how construction can strengthen learning experiences across Curriculum for Wales, including:

• Designing a shelter or structure using inquiry and problem-solving

• Exploring the environmental impact of building materials

• Mapping how mathematics, literacy, science, and expressive arts naturally connect

• Using real project briefs to build skills in teamwork, creativity, and critical thinking

• Investigating local buildings, community spaces, and infrastructure as learning contexts

These workshops showcase how construction-related learning promotes purposeful, applied, and engaging learning.

Practical CWRE Resources You Can Use Immediately

Participants will explore a suite of construction‑themed resources including:

• Digital tools for modelling, mapping, and designing

• Ready-made challenge tasks and project ideas

• Industry-backed videos and case studies

• Templates for planning employer encounters

• Activities linked to sustainability, climate goals, and future skills

You’ll leave with materials that support progression, skills development, and authentic contexts for learning.

Building Employer Partnerships

A dedicated session will help schools:

• Identify local construction partners

• Approach employers with confidence

• Structure meaningful encounters with workers

• Plan ongoing, sustainable relationships

• Embed employer voice into curriculum design

This supports schools to move beyond one-off visits and towards long-term impact.

How the Session Supports CWRE

Throughout the day, teachers will explore how construction learning helps pupils to:

• Understand local and national career opportunities

• Experience real workplace tasks in accessible ways

• Explore how skills in school connect to real projects

• Gain insight into the future of work and digital innovation

• Discover progression routes including apprenticeships, further education, and technical qualifications

• Meet relatable role models

• Recognise how the built environment shapes communities, culture, and the economy

Construction naturally offers rich, meaningful contexts that support the 9 CWRE elements without being repeated from previous sessions.

Aims of the Session

Participants will:

• Explore new ways to embed construction‑related learning across AoLEs

• Try practical activities that promote creativity, problem‑solving, and applied skills

• Develop confidence in using real-world industry contexts

• Strengthen their school's approach to CWRE using construction as a theme

• Build or enhance partnerships with employers

• Leave with actionable plans, resources, and ideas for the classroom

• Gain insight into how construction supports learner aspiration and authentic learning

📅 Date: Friday, 5th June
👥 Audience: Primary and Secondary Teachers
📍 Venue: Swansea City Centre (Venues TBC)
💷 Supply Contribution: £150 per attending school
🕘 Start Time: 9:00 AM
🕞 Finish Time: 3:30 PM
Sign‑up Link: https://forms.office.com/e/DjMHbeKU8C?origin=lprLink

About the Event

My Choice Walking City Tour: Part 2 is an exciting continuation of our place‑based CWRE professional learning offer. This new tour introduces teachers to a fresh set of Swansea locations, organisations, and industries, demonstrating how real‑world contexts can meaningfully enrich teaching and learning across Curriculum for Wales.

This immersive experience allows teachers to explore how local businesses, community sectors, and modern industries shape the city, create opportunities, and offer authentic contexts that can be used to support the 9 CWRE elements.

The tour will feature four new venues, each selected for their relevance to skills, innovation, community value, and workforce development.

What to Expect

Explore New Sectors and Local Workplaces

Teachers will visit a range of workplaces that may include:
• Creative, media, or cultural organisations
• Health, wellbeing, or community services
• Green technology and environmental projects
• Public sector and civic spaces
• Digital or innovation hubs

Professionals will share:
• Their roles and career journeys
• Skills used in their daily work
• Challenges, innovations, and future opportunities
• Advice for inspiring the next generation

These insights help teachers bring relevance and authenticity into their everyday teaching.

Curriculum Connections in Real Contexts

Throughout the tour, teachers will explore how local workplaces can strengthen learning experiences by:
• Linking skills, knowledge, and experiences across AoLEs
• Using real spaces, people, and challenges to enhance curriculum relevance
• Making meaningful links to literacy, numeracy, science, humanities, and expressive arts
• Providing accessible entry points for all learners
• Using local case studies to support progression from 3–14

These experiences promote purposeful, applied, and engaging learning.

Practical CWRE Tools and Takeaways

Participants will gain access to place‑based CWRE resources, including:
• Templates for planning local visits and workplace encounters
• Activities for exploring roles, pathways, and skills
• Guidance on linking local industries to classroom learning
• Ready-made tasks that build curiosity, problem‑solving, and collaboration
• Examples of authentic contexts that support the 9 CWRE elements

Teachers will leave with practical ideas they can use immediately.

Strengthening Partnerships Within the City

A key part of the tour focuses on helping schools:
• Build confidence in approaching employers
• Understand how to structure meaningful experiences
• Develop ongoing relationships with local organisations
• Use community assets to enhance curriculum design
• Embed employer voice in purposeful ways

This supports sustainable, long-term CWRE development.

How the Tour Supports CWRE

Through exposure to real workplaces, teachers will see how CWRE helps learners to:
• Explore real roles across multiple sectors
• Understand skills required in modern workplaces
• Connect curriculum learning to real-world challenges
• Recognise how local industries shape the city
• Gain awareness of pathways including apprenticeships, FE, and technical routes
• Meet diverse role models
• Understand how the world of work is evolving
• Appreciate the impact of industry on community, culture, and the economy

Aims of the Session

Participants will:
• Experience new ways to embed place‑based learning
• Strengthen understanding of local industries and skills needs
• Develop strategies for using community spaces as authentic curriculum contexts
• Build confidence in linking AoLE content to real‑world examples
• Share ideas, challenges, and next steps with colleagues
• Leave with practical tools, fresh insights, and new curriculum opportunities
• Help shape future My Choice programmes through feedback

📅 Date: Tuesday, 30th June
👥 Audience: Primary and Secondary Teachers
📍 Venue: TBC
💷 Supply Contribution: £250 per attending school
🕘 Start Time: 9:00 AM
🕞 Finish Time: 3:30 PM

Sign up: https://forms.office.com/e/qgThbcciCw?origin=lprLink

About the Event

This follow‑up professional learning session builds on the success of the CWRE Support and Resources event at Swansea Arena. The day will focus on practical implementation, progression, and real examples of how schools are embedding Careers and Work‑Related Experiences (CWRE) across Curriculum for Wales. Teachers will explore how to move from inspiration to sustained impact using the Inspire – Embed – Impact model and the 9 CWRE elements.

What to Expect

School Spotlights

Primary and Secondary schools will share how they have developed CWRE since the first event, including examples of:

• Embedding CWRE across Areas of Learning and Experience

• Using the 9 CWRE elements to support progression

• Impact on learner aspiration, engagement, and confidence

Talks from Businesses and Inspiring Individuals

Hear from employers, apprentices, and professionals who will:

• Share real‑world insights into skills and pathways

• Highlight opportunities for school–employer collaboration

• Bring curriculum learning to life through authentic contexts

Resources to Support Delivery

Explore practical tools and resources that help teachers embed CWRE, including:

• Digital platforms and labour market information

• Planning and mapping

Strategic and Practical Support

Sessions will guide teachers in:

• Strengthening whole‑school approaches to CWRE

• Embedding CWRE across AoLEs

• Ensuring progression using the 9 CWRE elements

• Building sustainable partnerships with employers

The 9 CWRE Elements

Throughout the day, teachers will explore how CWRE helps learners to:

• Explore progression pathways linked to each Area

• Recognise the relevance of learning to careers, work, and life

• Use real‑world examples and workplace contexts

• Understand the value of qualifications in each Area

• Explore work tasks, roles, and workplaces

• Consider the changing nature and future of work

• Understand application processes for learning and work

• Meet role models working in relevant sectors

• Appreciate the importance of each Area to culture, economy, and society

Aims of the Session

Participants will:

• Engage with schools, employers, and practitioners

• Develop practical strategies to embed CWRE in their teaching

• Reflect on how CWRE supports aspiration and curriculum relevance

• Explore resources that support the 9 CWRE elements

• Collaborate with colleagues to plan next steps

• Strengthen confidence in linking curriculum content to real‑world contexts