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In the past three months the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Lynne Neagle, has visited schools and settings and met with individuals from across the education sector to see the Curriculum for Wales in action and to listen to their experiences.
Significant progress is being made in many areas, but some practitioners are asking for more support to help them develop their curriculum. All year groups will be learning through the Curriculum for Wales from September 2026.
Nationally available Collaborative Support for Curriculum Design, progression and assessment
Work will begin on this in the autumn with clear tools and templates being published to give schools a model process for developing and enhancing their curriculum – regardless of their starting point.
This will also help provide further detail on approaches to assessing learning, evaluating progress, and communicating this. We will publish the first of these next Spring and continue to build on these into the following academic year.
We will also share examples of what approaches can look like in practice.
The Literacy, Numeracy and Digital Competence Frameworks
These will be put on a statutory footing, with a programme of National Professional Learning to support Literacy and Numeracy across the curriculum, piloted in 2025 and expanded throughout the 2025/26 academic year.
Consultation on a revised and strengthened Literacy and Numeracy framework will take place in 2025, with a view to publishing statutory guidance in 2026.
Materials to support designing and planning learning within and across the Areas of Learning and Experience which will be trialled next academic year, helping schools to select content to develop knowledge and skills across different areas and disciplines.
Lynne Neagle said:
“None of this takes anything away from those schools who are already realising the Curriculum for their children.
“This is about putting a solid foundation in place for those that need it – not putting a ceiling on the innovation we are already seeing across the country”.