Curriculum for Wales Teaching Resources (Progression Steps 1–5)
Curriculum for Wales Teaching Resources (Progression Steps 1–5)
Every school in Wales now designs its own curriculum, which is liberating on paper and exhausting in practice. These downloads give you finished teaching material to slot into the Areas of Learning and Experience you are already planning.
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Humanities and cross-AoLE units for Welsh classrooms
A starting selection weighted towards Humanities and suited to Progression Steps 3 and 4; tap any cover to see the full preview, contents and price.
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Why teachers use these
Why teachers in Wales use these
Curriculum for Wales handed curriculum design back to schools, and in a two-person Humanities department that means writing schemes of work from a blank page while teaching a full timetable. These units supply the substance: a sequence of lessons, four levels of task, and slides you can put straight on the board. You keep the professional judgement about progression, cynefin and the statements of what matters. You skip the typing.
What's covered
What is in each download
Each unit is a complete teaching sequence rather than a single worksheet, so it survives contact with a real timetable.
- Differentiated tasks on four levels
- Editable PowerPoint lesson slides
- Complete answer keys
- Timed lesson plan
- Printable and digital formats
Make it work for everyone
Progression and assessment evidence
Wales asks you to describe progression rather than award a level, so the four task levels are most useful as a picture of where a learner currently sits within a progression step. Keep the lowest and the highest completed version of the same task from one class, and you have a concrete starting point for a departmental progression discussion.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Are these written specifically for Curriculum for Wales?
No, and it would be misleading to say so. They are written to the concepts and skills the descriptions of learning cover, particularly in Humanities and in Languages, Literacy and Communication. Because every file is editable, most teachers relabel the objective line with their own statement of what matters in a couple of minutes.
How do these support the four purposes?
The four purposes describe the kind of learner you are building, so they show up in how you use a unit rather than in the worksheet itself. Enquiry and source work feed ethical, informed citizens. The group presentation tasks feed enterprising, creative contributors. Adapt the framing on the slides to name the purpose you are targeting.
Can I use these with a group spanning several progression steps?
Yes, that is exactly what the four task levels are for. In a Year 7 group ranging from Progression Step 2 to Step 4 you can run one enquiry question and hand out three different task sheets without anyone feeling singled out. The slides, the discussion and the plenary stay shared.
Pick up a unit before your next planning session
One download can carry a fortnight of Humanities lessons.
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