Courses

‘Numeracy is a key enabler in making a number of informed decisions, in particular, managing money and supporting good financial decision‑making and critically engaging with social norms around money’ Health & Well-being AoLE (draft 2019).

According to the latest Estyn report Managing Money (July 2017) “not all teachers have the knowledge and skills to help them deliver financial education confidently”

In an increasingly complex financial world, it is important that we develop pupils’ financial capability from an early age to equip them with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to manage money well and to prepare them for the opportunities and challenges that money brings to their lives.

This course will support teachers in identifying opportunities to plan and deliver financial education, as well as advise and provide a wealth of teaching resources.

Guided reading and beyond. What comes after guided reading?

How can a school use different reading approaches to help pupils to become increasingly independent readers? This course will demonstrate how to plan for progression in the teaching of reading by combining guided reading with group reading and reciprocal teaching.

Half-day 9am to 12:30pm

This half-day session will provide schools with the following helpful guidance:

• The big picture re CfW
• Key strategic actions developed as ‘quick wins’
• Developing the Pedagogical Principles- (50 page comprehensive supporting resource)
• Good practice in Topic planning and delivery

We will support you in developing your school in alignment with the WG document, ‘The journey to 2022’.

The balance between FP philosophy, pedagogy and the achievement of high standards is a current issue that many schools are trying to address.

This course will review the new curriculum for Humanities at Y1, Y2, Y3,  explaining key changes and terminology; suggesting effective and challenging activities; resources and learning strategies to support successful implementation.  

Getting to Grips with the ‘Expressive Arts AoLE’  

This programme will give you creative and practical strategies for improving and developing the Expressive Arts in years 4,5 & 6. As well as giving comprehensive and inspiring activities for Progress step 3, delegates will also have time to plan collaboratively for this AoLE, and they can link this to other areas of learning. This course will give inspiring ideas for progress step 3 as well as pedagogical strategies to improve progress in this AoLE.

This two-day Inset will focus on the new arrangements for assessment, as set out in Curriculum for Wales. It will explore how to embed assessment into day-to-day practices. The focus will be specifically on each of the four purposes and identifying means of ascertaining pupil progress. Emphasis will be on doing this with high levels of learner involvement. Resources will be provided to support this.

Dates:  Thursday 1st and Tuesday 6th July 2021

The format of the LLC AoLE training days will be somewhat different as we will be ‘meeting’ virtually. The sessions will be for a small group (no more than 10) so that they can be interactive. The days will be chunked into more bite size pieces and will include tasks for reflection as well as discussion.

Half-day 9am to 12:30pm

This half-day session will provide schools with the following helpful guidance:

• The big picture re CfW
• Key strategic actions developed as ‘quick wins’
• Developing the Pedagogical Principles- (50 page comprehensive supporting resource)
• Good practice in Topic planning and delivery

We will support you in developing your school in alignment with the WG document, ‘The journey to 2022’.

This course will clarify what is happening to the Foundation Phase under the new curriculum in Wales. It will focus on what needs to stay the same and what needs to change.

The AoLLC stresses the importance of both listening and speaking. With an ability to listen carefully, respond to others and challenge ideas and the skills to express ideas, articulate opinions and explain concepts, pupils become more resourceful and adaptable learners. This course helps your school to develop oracy across the curriculum in FP and KS2 so that pupils talk to learn and talk to express themselves.

‘Getting back in the car’

A plan for managing the transition period from now until September 2022

“Sticks and stones may break my bones but worms will never hurt me”
Outdoor learning offers our children very special opportunities for play and exploration, real experiences and contact with their natural world.

It is essential that pupils develop a deep conceptual understanding of place value as it underpins the methods that they use for calculations with larger numbers.

A secure understanding of place value is also crucial for ordering numbers, making measurements and handling money.

The concept of place value is, however, very abstract; therefore, pupils need to develop their understanding through active approaches that use concrete and visual representations of the decimal number system.

Curriculum for Wales 2022 is a holistic curriculum that allows learning to be drawn from across the different areas of learning and experience.

As we begin to embed the new curriculum over the next few years, schools will need to explore how they can make manageable links. How can we use literacy skills in a meaningful way to develop and improve mathematical understanding? Where is the natural overlap?

The format of training session will be somewhat different as we will be ‘meeting’ live, but on screen. The training will be for a small group so that we can be interactive. The day will be chunked into a series of bitesize pieces and will include tasks for reflection as well as discussion and collaboration. The day will also provide practical ideas for auditing your current provision, as well as supporting effective implementation of the new curriculum.