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    • Professional Learning Grant

    Professional Learning Grant

    At Llangyfelach Primary School, we aim to use our Professional Learning Grant to support the continuing professional learning for all staff. Professional learning should support improvements in pupil experiences, learner outcomes and learner wellbeing.

    Focai: Curriculum AoLE Leader Training, Professional Development, Pupil Wellbeing, Improved Offer, Curriculum Implementation & Cluster Collaboration.

    Objectives:

    • Implement strategies for auditing current provision and ensuring effective implementation of the new curriculum.

    • Unpicking and understanding the language of the new curriculum.

    • Identifying the key knowledge and skills and making links to the Four Purposes.

    • Identifying effective approaches and strategies for each Area of Learning.

    • Ensure that all staff are well trained and confident in using outdoor environment to support learning.

    • Developing Progression Models, Learning Projects and Assessment Trackers for LPS and the cluster.

    • Developing a curriculum and experiences that needs to be cognitively demanding and challenging for all leaners as they apply Cross-curricular and Integral Skills to real world, complex and open-ended situations.

    • Develop curriculum content that will be interesting and relevant for our learners, involving intellectual challenges rich in Cross-cutting Themes.

    • Provide opportunities for learners to engage with learning experiences that broaden opportunities and horizons; providing enriched memorable experiences that directly relate to the real world and consolidate learning.

    • Releasing key staff in specific areas to model, coach and share good practice.

    • Middle Leader Training provided by LA

    Impact

    • Enhanced pupil voice across the school and curriculum.

    • Enhancing pupil wellbeing and opportunities to have a choice in their learning pathways.

    • Appropriate balance between focused teaching and pupil's self-directed learning.

    • Effective deployment of adults to improve standards.

    • Differentiation meeting the needs of all learners.

    • Excellent classroom organisation and practice.

    • Improved systems for assessment for and of learning.

    • Refined and relevant curriculum that meets the needs of all learners, providing progression and continuity in all Areas of Learning.

    • Improved Self Directed Learning of nearly all pupils.

    • LPS and Cluster curriculum must be rigorous, engaging and relevant in design

     

    Examples of Training and Professional Learning:

    AoLE Leader Non-Contact and Cluster Collaboration Meetings:

    AoLE Leader for Expressive Arts 

    AoLE Leader for Humanities

    AoLE Leader for Science & Technology 

    AoLE Leader for Mathematics and Numeracy 

    AoLE Leader for Literacy, Language and Communication 

    AoLE Leader for Health & Wellbeing 

    Total Supply Coast = ~£2000

     

    Forest Schools Leader Training 2025-26

    2x Leader Practitioner Forest Schools = £3325

     

    Welsh Reading Development 2025-26

    Class Teachers Professional Development: Provided by LA Specialist Teacher

     

    Monster Phonics 2025-26

    Whole staff training programme that is ongoing.

     

    Primed for Success and Train The Trainer 2025-26:

    Leadership and class teachers receiving Professional Development on CAP approach to Mathematics.

     

     

    Annual Spends:

    2022-23:

    Total Grant = £3969

    School Funded = ~£1031

    2023-24

    Total Grant = £3672

    School Funded = ~£1328

    2024-25

    Total Grant = £3667

    School Funded = ~£1333

    2025-26

    Total Grant = £4209

    School Funded = ~£1116

    2026-27

    Total Grant = £4227

    School Funded = ~£1500

     

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