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@StanwellSchool - 20:51 PM - 6 Oct 2025

Well done to our girls for their fantastic performances in today’s cross country competition. They showed incredible determination with some pushing themselves to their limit. Special mention to Alice Atkin, Maya Tinca & Eva Richards for their top performances 👟⭐ pic.twitter.com/6LpTh12Y1r— Stanwell School PE () October 6, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 19:41 PM - 6 Oct 2025

Y7 Football⚽️ The Y7 team bow out of the cup after losing to an skilful Cardiff High team. Despite a slow first half, the team showed great determination and spirit to create chances until the end. Proud of their first outing! Plenty more fixtures to come👏🏻⚽️🔶🔷 pic.twitter.com/shvlzdRDlF— Stanwell School PE () October 6, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 16:17 PM - 6 Oct 2025

Good Luck to our girls competing in cross country again this evening 🏃🏻‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/jkm7Gn6mo7— Stanwell School PE () October 6, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 07:06 AM - 4 Oct 2025

Congratulations to Alis Waters who is performing as Ophelia in the Everyman Theatre production of Hamlet  in Cardiff. Photo credit Keith Stanbury.— Stanwell_School () Oct 4, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 14:44 PM - 3 Oct 2025

Thank you to the charity committee and everyone who baked cakes for our bake sale today. Non school uniform day and bake sale raising money for Breast Cancer  and Alzheimer’s charities.— Stanwell_School () Oct 3, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 14:44 PM - 3 Oct 2025

Over £1500 raised so far  today at the bake sale and non uniform day. Thank you to our charity committee and anyone who brought in baked goods. You can still donate via parent pay.— Stanwell_School () Oct 3, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 14:26 PM - 3 Oct 2025

Lots of lost property has accumulated since September - please see attached photos! It will all be available to collect from Dining Hall on Open Day Tuesday October 7th 3pm - 6pm.— Stanwell_School () Oct 3, 2025
Non-uniform day on FRIDAY 3rd OCTOBER . Please pay £1 either on parentpay or fobs. Cash will also be collected on the day in buckets! Alongside this there will be various cakes and biscuits on sale for 50p - £1. Money to go to Breast Cancer and Alzheimer’s charities— Stanwell_School () Oct 1, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 15:16 PM - 1 Oct 2025

There will be a Digital Music taster session for all Stanwell students on Open Day, 3:00pm - 4:30pm Sign up on the form on the music base room by Friday 3rd October— Stanwell_School () Oct 1, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 10:34 AM - 1 Oct 2025

@StanwellSchool - 21:52 PM - 30 Sep 2025

— Stanwell_School () Sep 30, 2025
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Curriculum for Wales

Stanwell School Roadmap 

Where did we begin?

High quality professional development focusing upon learning and teaching, curriculum design and the National Mission has been the essential ingredient on our journey towards the Curriculum for Wales. The school's on-going self-evaluation and a series of weekly training sessions, has helped to co-construct a common language of excellence

All staff were trained in the principles of coaching and introduced to professional enquiry as a means of making change, engaging with educational research and evaluating the impact of practice.

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Next, we 'unpicked' what the Four Purposes of the Curriculum for Wales meant for our learners and audited our current schemes of learning. This allowed us to celebrate what we did well and identify what we wanted to improve or change.

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Subject and pastoral leaders created a set of 'non-negotiables' within their departments  and across Areas of Learning which focused upon knowledge, skills and experience. These became the building blocks for our curriculum design. Practitioners were asked to consider what knowledge, skills and experience a 16-year-old pupil should have at the end of year 11 when the curriculum had been designed.

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Subsequently, subject leaders were released, within AOLE teams, to discuss and plan for curriculum design. They were joined by our Curriculum Consultants, a team of pupils with a keen interest in curriculum. These sessions were invaluable in the planning and design process.

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Next, we explored representation, diversity, Welsh, global and authentic contexts in AOLE and departmental teams and staff engaged with the Cross Cutting Themes. 

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When the final curriculum guidance was published, staff were given time to familiarise themselves with the documentation.  Numeracy, Literacy and DCF Coordinators undertook 1:1 coaching sessions with every  subject leader to discuss natural opportunities to teach skills across Areas of Learning. 

INSET was provided on the new skills frameworks and staff were given time to reflect upon best practice in the teaching of skills and how they would be embedded into curriculum design.

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We went onto explore the what, how, why and when of curriculum design. This required staff to engage with the Progression Steps, Statements of What Matters, Skills Frameworks and curriculum guidance to start designing our curriculum.

A whole school map has been created and practitioners are using 2023/2024 to plan their curriculum for Year 8 alongside evaluation for Year 7 curriculum. Coaching is utilised to support practitioners through this process and enquiry practices are used to test aspects of curriculum design this as we progress.

We began teaching our new curriculum to Year 7 in September 2022 and to Year 8 in September 2023

Curriculum for Wales Summary

At Stanwell our curriculum protects and celebrates subject specialism and this is highly valued. We explore the natural and organic links that occur within and across Areas of Learning, and we develop our learners’ ability to make connections between subjects. Across departments the development of skills underpins ALL learning.  Our curriculum places the four purposes at its core, where real- life context is paramount, enabling our learners to value, understand, contribute to and sometimes challenge the world in which we live.  We value and promote diversity, inclusion and equality, and lesson content is supported by enrichment activities, a fundamental part of our school life. Curriculum design enables learners to make progress across all areas of the school and nurture a healthy sense of wellbeing.