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@StanwellSchool - 17:38 PM - 11 Sep 2025

U14 Girls Football⚽️ The final training session is done! All eyes turn to the SAFIB Rod Houston British Cup now next week. Many thanks to the Y8 boys who agreed to help with training this afternoon👏🏻⚽️🔶🔷 pic.twitter.com/ewhENUBqSc— Stanwell School PE () September 11, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 17:46 PM - 10 Sep 2025

Y8&9 Football⚽️ It was great to have both Y8 and 9 teams training together for the first time this season. We look forward to the cup fixtures coming up this half term👏🏻⚽️🔷🔶 pic.twitter.com/GwYYhy8wCR— Stanwell School PE () September 10, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 20:20 PM - 8 Sep 2025

Stanwell have been giving  blood today with the Welsh Blood Service. Thank you to all who took part.— Stanwell_School () Sep 8, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 14:13 PM - 8 Sep 2025

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@StanwellSchool - 15:17 PM - 2 Sep 2025

Year 7 pupils finished the day with a whole year group assembly where they met Mr Mansfield, Headteacher who  talked about what to expect at Stanwell School. Well done to all Year 7 pupils today. Remeber we welcome our whole school community back tomorrow.— Stanwell_School () Sep 2, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 09:21 AM - 2 Sep 2025

Welcome to all our new Year 7 pupils. Everyone is settled and enjoying a morning of induction activities.— Stanwell_School () Sep 2, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 09:20 AM - 2 Sep 2025

Welcome to all our new Year 7 pupils. Everyone is settled and enjoying a morning of induction activities.— Stanwell_School () Sep 2, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 09:19 AM - 2 Sep 2025

Welcome back to our fabulous Year 12 pupils who have started their morning with an introduction to 6th form assembly.— Stanwell_School () Sep 2, 2025
We hope all our pupils have had a restful and enjoyable summer break. We look forward to welcoming everyone back this week. Monday 1st Sept- INSET day- staff only on site. Tuesday 2nd Sept -New Year 7 and all of Year 12 only on site Wednesday 3rd Sept- All year groups on site.— Stanwell_School () Aug 31, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 13:11 PM - 31 Aug 2025

GCSE Results have now been emailed to all students— Stanwell_School () Aug 21, 2025

@StanwellSchool - 12:38 PM - 21 Aug 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.