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Find out more about resources for teachers and our joint events for school leadership teams in the new year.
Earlier this term, we published statutory guidance on 14 to 16 Learning under Curriculum for Wales (CfW) to support schools to plan and design their curriculum for the first cohort of year 10 learners under CfW from September 2025.
The 14 to 16 Learning Guidance also complements the publication of the first wave of reformed GCSE exam specifications from WJEC.
Responding to the feedback, we have worked with school leaders to create a package of professional learning support to support schools to design and deliver a curriculum for learners in year 10 and 11 that makes best use of qualifications and meets the expectations set out in the 14 to 16 Learning Guidance. This package complements the work of WJEC to support the delivery of the new Made-for-Wales qualifications.
The 14 to 16 Learning under the Curriculum for Wales PowerPoint helps schools in understand and implement the guidance.
The Successful use of qualifications specifications within Curriculum for Wales resource helps schools to understand how to use the new Made for Wales qualification specifications to support learner progress along the 3-16 curriculum.
The Director of Education recently wrote to headteachers of secondary aged learners inviting them and their leadership teams to attend our 14-16 Leadership Conferences which will be held across Wales at the beginning of 2025.
The conferences will give space and time for leaders to discuss our 14-16 Learning Guidance within the context of 3-16 Curriculum for Wales and its significance in supporting all learners in making effective transitions to post-16; but to also consider implications for:
- Self-evaluation and improvement (including the use of data, information and evidence)
- Pedagogy (including curriculum, progression and assessment, learner effectiveness and dealing with barriers to learning)
- Curriculum and timetabling (including a consideration of curriculum time and resources, and the balance of NEA/examination across the suite of qualifications)
We are aiming for these conferences to take place on the agreed INSET days and in conjunction with the WJEC Professional Learning events for the new ‘wave 1’ GCSEs. Further details on location, agenda along with registration links will be shared with senior leaders in the coming weeks.
We are working with Dr James Mannion, and senior leaders across Wales, to develop a research informed professional learning programme, ‘Embedding Learner Effectiveness’, designed to support schools with teaching learners and young people how to become more confident, proactive and self-regulated learners.
The programme is being trialled and reviewed for publication in the summer term 2025, for schools to use from September 2025.
We will also publish a number of case studies to sit alongside the publication of the programme, to showcase the important impact of this work throughout curriculum design.