NDNA Cymru strive to support practitioners and settings with their ongoing professional development. Webinars, training and events to keep you informed and support you in improving your practice.
Where speakers share their knowledge and expertise on key topics in relation to ECPLC, curriculum and assessment. Upcoming training, webinars and events can be viewed and booked on our NDNA events page.
Previous NDNA Cymru webinar recordings:
Enabling Learning in the Early Years webinar:
Introduction to the assessment arrangements video:
Embedding Welsh Language and Cynefin webinar:
Sustained Shared Thinking in the Early Years webinar
Additional Learning Needs in Wales webinar:
Outdoor and Risky Play Video:
Welsh Government developed Hwb resources
Nursery setting modules:
Professional learning modules available to support nursery settings in implementing their curriculum.
These modules are titled as follows:
- Understanding Curriculum for Wales and the development of a curriculum for funded for non-maintained nursery settings
- Understanding the five developmental pathways and pedagogy
- Schematic development
- Leadership in non-maintained nursery settings
Foundation Learning pedagogy modules:
These will support practitioners in reflecting on practice and provision when delivering the curriculum.
They are based on 6 themes:
- Authentic and purposeful learning
- Child development
- Observation
- Outdoor learning
- Play and play-based learning
- Transitions
Foundation Learning pedagogy modules
It is not compulsory for the modules to be used, though Welsh Government would expect staff and practitioners to understand the core principles of the modules to help ensure effective implementation of Curriculum for Wales. We encourage practitioners to regularly revisit their learning and to refresh their understanding while reflecting against continuing and evolving practice.
‘Quick links’ have been added to the resource cards for the professional learning modules. They outline all the sessions available with links to each session, and include an estimated time for completion. This should allow flexibility to choose which sessions to focus on, depending on the time available and the knowledge and skills being developed.
Understanding the teaching and learning approaches in foundation learning:
A range of videos showing practitioners and organisations discussing teaching and learning approaches in foundation learning.
The videos cover the following themes:
- Effective pedagogy
- Responsive planning
- Cynefin and embedding Welsh culture
- Reflective practice
- Loose parts
- Symbolic representation
Understanding the teaching and learning approaches in foundation learning videos
CWLWM training and events:
Celebrating our adults, experiences and environments
A series of conversations with practitioners from the non-maintained sector, in their settings, talking about their adults, experiences and environments.
N.B. Please note that these resources are through the medium of Welsh with English subtitles.
Upcoming training, webinars and events with CWLWM:
More information coming soon.