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Unfortunately year 8 rugby training is cancelled tomorrow.— Stanwell_School () Oct 19, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 20:22 PM - 19 Oct 2025

@StanwellSchool - 14:52 PM - 17 Oct 2025

Fantastic day yesterday at the 1st round of the Welsh Schools Basketball Competition at Talybont 🏀 Seniors did themselves proud 🏀 onto the next round 🏀 pic.twitter.com/O1SlsAvMNr— Stanwell School PE () October 17, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 13:43 PM - 17 Oct 2025

Pure passion from Year 11 before their well being touch rugby lesson pic.twitter.com/olSL2uu6iw— Stanwell School PE () October 17, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 12:46 PM - 17 Oct 2025

We are pleased to be able to confirm that Stanwell School has again performed in the top quartile of all schools in England and Wales for GCSE results (2025) and are an ALPs Gold Award winner!— Stanwell_School () Oct 17, 2025
Today's after school Basketball Club will not be running . apologies for any inconvenience— Stanwell_School () Oct 16, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 11:17 AM - 16 Oct 2025

Stanwell Space Agency (Astronomy club) will be launching on Monday 20th October in F2 from 3-3.45pm.  Held on the last Monday of each month. Come along to the 1st session to discuss all things space and hear about what we have planned. All years welcome with Miss Lloyd & Mr West.— Stanwell_School () Oct 16, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 10:12 AM - 16 Oct 2025

@StanwellSchool - 15:34 PM - 15 Oct 2025

Big game for the Year 9 rugby team vs Bro Morgannwg in the Welsh cup. pic.twitter.com/P5nGgyiIDO— Stanwell School PE () October 15, 2025
Please be aware that at 2.40pm today there will be a Fire Drill. This is to practice the school evacuating the building safely— Stanwell_School () Oct 15, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 14:34 PM - 15 Oct 2025

@StanwellSchool - 18:23 PM - 14 Oct 2025

Huge congratulations to our U15 girls team who secured a 4–1 win vs Radyr in their cup game! ⚽️ Goals from Olivia Gill, Ulla Cayford (pen), Alice Atkin & Martha Ely 👏 Credit to Radyr for a great game and tough opposition. pic.twitter.com/wGkqvyYl6k— Stanwell School PE () October 14, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 10:43 AM - 10 Oct 2025

What a wonderful farewell party and celebration of our much loved German exchange with the pupils and their host families. 43 years and still going strong. We're looking forward to our next exchange already! pic.twitter.com/HxYlWC9NAn— Stanwell MFL () October 10, 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.