1. Curriculum For Wales Creating the Climate for Change
January - March 2018 Associate Pioneer Engagement Sessions
#creatingtheclimateforchange

2. Agenda Key Messages / Misconceptions Readiness Tool
Engagement Activities
Regional Support
Inquiry Process

3. Objectives: Engage all schools in the move towards the new curriculum
Baseline analysis of school preparation (Readiness Tool):
To inform regional support and professional learning offer
Support all schools with planning and preparation
When ready, empower action through inquiry-led approaches that focus on:
The four purposes
Pedagogical principles

4. By end of July 2018
Schools operating in steps 1-3

5. Partner School funding
4 funded days available Jan – March 2018
Group determines how these days are organised:
We propose that schools meet in January 2018 to begin collaboration and again in March to discuss progress and next steps.
The group decides how to organise the remaining time. This could be individual work in school or collaboration with others.

6. Creating the Climate Events (Nov/Dec 17)
Key messages from issues arising from discussions
During this part of the session, it is important that pioneer schools are clear with the messages that the new curriculum brings. This will provide a follow up to the November/December initial engagement sessions. The key messages have come from the commentary completed at these initial events. Please use the ‘key messages’ sheet and the ‘frequently asked questions’ to support you.

7. Key messages 1: Creating the Climate
Timeline from Education in Wales: Our National Mission
trialling and testing at this stage by Pioneer schools.
initial phase is about readiness
not about curriculum content or ‘what matters’
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8. Key messages 2: Professional Teaching Standards
Designed to be more expansive and not reductive or ‘tick list’
opportunity to familiarise before Sep 2018
Career-long development
Professional Learning Passport
Profession takes responsibility for own learning

9. Key messages 3: Curriculum
Is more than just content!
– also PEDAGOGY and ASSESSMENT.
Our goal to realise the 4 purposes.
An overarching framework will be provided.
The expectation that schools will provide a contextual SCHOOL CURRICULUM that:
allows children to achieve the 4 purposes.
meet pupil needs

10. Key messages 4: Pedagogy
The pedagogical principles - Successful Futures Ch.5
effective teaching in good schools.
Practitioners need to deliver an engaging curriculum whilst maintaining standards.
NB.
Curriculum framework available for feedback from 2019 and a final one from 2020.
Use of the new curriculum from 2022
Beneficial to focus on pedagogy now

11. Key messages 5 Be wary of ‘schemes’ or developing around schemes.
Use opportunities for collaborative planning and developing
Use the SLO model to support planning
Collaboration will aid workload issues

12. Key messages 6: Accountability
The assessment, evaluation and accountability framework IS being discussed
but it is not available yet.
According to the timeline this is due by Summer 2018.

13. FAQs (handout)

14. Readiness Tool Complete online by Feb Half-Term 2018.
Baseline to inform regional support and the professional learning offer.
Use available support
Seek support from existing networks

15. Engagement Activities

16. Available Support (handout)
The Pioneer Network
SIG Associate Pioneer leads
Existing school-school networks
Central South Wales Challenge
SIG Groups
Hubs
Peer Enquiry
Challenge Adviser
CSC Teaching and Learning Team
Cronfa
Research and Inquiry network
Schools bulletins
Social media
CSC Newsletter
During this part of the session, please direct schools towards the ‘engagement tool’, which will provide a baseline for both the school and the system. This will need to be returned to the consortium- We will capture school responses online. This needs to be completed by all schools before February Half-Term.
This will help to provide a baseline to inform regional support and the professional learning offer. Schools also need to be proactive in using the support available and seeking support from existing networks and consortia.
For the second part of the session, please take schools through the document: Creating the climate for change: Curriculum for Wales in the Central South Consortium: Possible Engagement Activities. These are SUGGESTED and not an exhaustive list. They are there as a support for schools towards the new curriculum. Your own experiences and journey will be useful here.

17. Inquiry Activity: Pedagogy
Choose approach here…
In this part of the session, pioneers will need to facilitate a discussion around readiness for inquiry. The Research and Inquiry toolkit will provide some materials to support this. You can choose one of the two options outlined in the pioneer network meeting and the materials for this will be placed in the hwb network. As a group, you can decide whether schools wish to
Focus on the possible engagement activities only
Focus on how to carry out an inquiry and do some ‘training’ as a group around this- the materials from the sessions will help this
Work collaboratively with all schools in the SIG/Pioneer group to carry out an inquiry, thus instigating some paired/triad work
Work on an inquiry in their own settings, taking their own schools through the process
With inquiry work, it is important that constant links are made to the Professional Teaching Standards, the Professional Learning Passport and the Schools as a Learning Organisation.

18. Next Steps: Sessions 2/3
These sessions will be dependent on each group’s agreed readiness.
It is not mandatory to meet as a group - this is at the discretion of schools
These could be used an opportunity for school teams to discuss ‘preparedness’ using the Readiness Tool

19. Session 4 - March 2018 This session will act as a milestone for engagement.
National Agenda:
Pioneer updates
Curriculum reform updates
Core activities:
Engagement tool feedback
Support needs - discussion
Progress on school readiness:
What has changed?
What steps have schools made?
What have been the learning points?
What next?
Progress with inquiry
Learning to date;
Use of inquiry
Session 4- March/April 2018
Agenda
This session will act as a milestone for engagement.
Update on National Agenda
During this sessions, pioneers can give an update on their work to date within the National Agenda as outlined in the Core brief. Any new items from the National Approach can be given during this session
Core activities
Feedback from the engagement tool- it will be too early for this to be completed again but pioneers can instigate discussions around the needs of schools going forward as identified from the tool. This will need to be feedback to the consortia to inform support packages.
Progress on school readiness
What has changed? What steps have schools made? What have been the learning points? What next?
Progress with inquiry
Discussion of learning to date; or start discussions about schools considering the use of inquiry- this is dependent on the position of schools