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Professional learning events

Courses for designing and planning careers and work-related experiences (CWRE) in your curriculum.

All sessions will be delivered via Microsoft Teams.

For more information, please email the curriculum team.

Autumn Term

CWRE Policy Development

Date: 22 September 2025
Time: 3:00 to 4:00 pm
Language: English or Welsh

This session will support you to create a new CWRE policy or to refresh an existing one. It will also include practical advice on how to incorporate planning, reviewing and monitoring into your CWRE provision.

Very useful guidance and great to be able to share experiences with other schools."

Book a place for CWRE Policy Development (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 18 September 2025.


AI for Careers in the Classroom (Expressive Arts)

Date: 23 September 2025
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 pm
Language: English or Welsh

This hands-on session helps teachers explore how AI can support careers and work-related Experiences (CWRE) across the curriculum. Participants will try out AI tools to create career-linked lesson content, share ideas and approaches, and discover how to make the most of resources available on Careers Wales. The session also offers practical ideas to engage learners and link lessons to the world of work.

Really informative and rich in ideas and inspiration, I would highly recommend this training to all my colleagues!"

Book a place for AI for Careers in the Classroom (Expressive Arts) (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 19 September 2025.


National CWRE Network Meeting (Special Schools)

Date: 29 September 2025
Time: 2:00 to 3:00 pm
Language: English. Simultaneous Welsh translation available upon request.

Join our CWRE Special School & PRU Network Meetings to explore practical ways of embedding careers and work-related experiences across the Curriculum for Wales. Connect with Careers Wales, employers, and fellow practitioners to share ideas, access resources and support learners in understanding the world of work and their future opportunities.

Excellent forum for sharing good practice, handouts were very beneficial. Thank you."

Book a place for National CWRE Network Meeting (Special Schools) (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 24 September 2025.

This session will also run on 4 February 2026 and 12 May 2026.


National CWRE Network Meeting (Primary)

Date: 2 October 2025
Time: 1:00 to 2:00 pm
Language: English. Simultaneous Welsh translation available upon request.

Join our CWRE Primary Network Meetings to explore practical ways of embedding careers and work-related experiences across the Curriculum for Wales. Connect with Careers Wales, employers, and fellow practitioners to share ideas, access resources and support learners in understanding the world of work and their future opportunities.

A really enjoyable session with plenty of discussion and ideas."

Book a place for National CWRE Network Meeting (Primary) (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 27 September 2025.

This session will also run on 19 March and 18 June 2026.


CWRE Audit Training

Date: 9 October 2025
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 pm
Language: English or Welsh

This session will give practical advice on how to audit your current CWRE provision, identify gaps and create an action plan to address any areas for improvement.

Really useful ideas that will help us move forward as we evaluate schemes of learning and further embed CWRE."

Book a place for CWRE Audit Training (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 4 October 2025.

This session will run again on 15 April 2026.


Careers City

Date: 14 October 2025
Time: 3:30 to 4:00 pm
Language: English or Welsh

An introductory session on how to make the most of Careers City, our bilingual resource developed to support primary schools to embed CWRE across the curriculum in a fun, engaging and easy way.

A very informative session with lots of ‘take away’ ideas that can be used in the classroom."

Book a place for Careers City (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 9 October 2025.

This session will run again on 3 February and 25 June 2026.


AI for Careers in the Classroom (Humanities)

Date: 21 October 2025
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 pm
Language: English or Welsh

This hands-on session helps teachers explore how AI can support careers and work-related experiences (CWRE) across the curriculum. Participants will try out AI tools to create career-linked lesson content, share ideas and approaches, and discover how to make the most of resources available on Careers Wales. The session also offers practical ideas to engage learners and link lessons to the world of work.

Very informative and this training will certainly help us to make authentic links with CWRE."

Book a place for AI for Careers in the Classroom (Humanities) (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 16 October 2025.


Careers in Your Curriculum

Date: 20 November 2025
Time: 9:30 to 12:30 pm
Language: English or Welsh

The Careers in Your Curriculum Programme provides training to support with planning, designing, and leading on careers and work-related experiences (CWRE) across the curriculum.

Really informative, presentation was very relevant. Lovely to have breakout rooms to discuss ideas and inspire."

Book a place for Careers in Your Curriculum (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 15 November 2025.


Using Careers Wales website and resources (Primary)

Date: 25 November 2025
Time: 3:15 to 4:00 pm
Language: English or Welsh

A session designed to help you improve your understanding of the many tools and resources on the Careers Wales website, and how they can be used to support your learners.

Great to be shown the resources that we can access. Very useful to have some ideas of what other schools are doing to support CWRE."

Book a place for Using Careers Wales website and resources (Primary) (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 20 November 2025.


AI for Careers in the Classroom (Science and Technology)

Date: 27 November 2025
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 pm
Language: English or Welsh

This hands-on session helps teachers explore how AI can support careers and work-related experiences (CWRE) across the curriculum. Participants will try out AI tools to create career-linked lesson content, share ideas and approaches, and discover how to make the most of resources available on Careers Wales. The session also offers practical ideas to engage learners and link lessons to the world of work.

I would recommend this training for teachers without much experience of AI to plan. It would offer the time and support to allow them to explore the capabilities of an AI platform with CWRE as the focus."

Book a place for AI for Careers in the Classroom (Science and Technology) (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 22 November 2025.


Governor Training

Date: 4 December 2025
Time: 10:00 to 11:00 am
Language: English or Welsh

Training for school governors covering key aspects of careers & work-related experiences (CWRE) in the Curriculum for Wales. The session explains statutory CWRE guidance for ages 3-16, its importance, how governors can support careers provision and available resources to enhance school career education.

Joined a number of dots regarding our purpose in education."

Book a place for Governor Training (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 30 November 2025.


Spring Term

Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

Date: 20 January 2026
Time: 2:00 to 3:30 pm
Language: English or Welsh

This workshop will address the importance of enterprise and entrepreneurship in the Curriculum for Wales. It will include approaches to integrating enterprise and entrepreneurship across the curriculum with a focus on tools and resources to support with mapping progression.

Thank you for this training, it was very well presented. The information was clear and enabled me to start to put together a plan for raising the profile of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in my school."

Book a place for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 15 January 2026.


AI for Careers in the Classroom (Language, Literacy and Communication)

Date: 27 January 2026
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 pm
Language: English or Welsh

This hands-on session helps teachers explore how AI can support careers and work-related experiences (CWRE) across the curriculum. Participants will try out AI tools to create career-linked lesson content, share ideas and approaches, and discover how to make the most of resources available on Careers Wales. The session also offers practical ideas to engage learners and link lessons to the world of work.

I had never considered my role as an English teacher with regards to CWRE before, but now have an understanding of how I can integrate this. In addition, I now have a better understanding of how AI can support my planning."

Book a place for AI for Careers in the Classroom (Language, Literacy and Communication) (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 22 January 2026.


Careers City

Date: 3 February 2026
Time: 3:30 to 4:00 pm
Language: English or Welsh

An introductory session on how to make the most of Careers City, our bilingual resource developed to support primary schools to embed CWRE across the curriculum in a fun, engaging and easy way.

Thank you, really useful ideas that can be practically used in a classroom/ school setting."

Book a place for Careers City (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 9 October 2025. 

This session will run again on 25 June 2026


National CWRE Network Meeting (Special Schools)

Date: 4 February 2026
Time: 2:00 to 3:00 pm
Language: English. Simultaneous Welsh translation available upon request.

Join our CWRE Special School & PRU Network Meetings to explore practical ways of embedding careers and work-related experiences across the Curriculum for Wales. Connect with Careers Wales, employers, and fellow practitioners to share ideas, access resources and support learners in understanding the world of work and their future opportunities.

Very useful guidance and great to be able to share experiences with other schools."

Book a place for National CWRE Network Meeting (Special Schools) (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 30 January 2026.


AI for Careers in the Classroom (Maths & Numeracy)

Date: 24 February 2026
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 pm
Language: English or Welsh

This hands-on session helps teachers explore how AI can support careers and work-related experiences (CWRE) across the curriculum. Participants will try out AI tools to create career-linked lesson content, share ideas and approaches, and discover how to make the most of resources available on Careers Wales. The session also offers practical ideas to engage learners and link lessons to the world of work.

Very useful and informative course. It was very beneficial to be able to try the AI tasks ourselves live so that any questions or queries could be answered in real time."

Book a place for AI for Careers in the Classroom (Maths & Numeracy) (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 19 February 2026.


AI for Careers in the Classroom (Health & Wellbeing)

Date: 17 March 2026
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 pm
Language: English or Welsh

This hands-on session helps teachers explore how AI can support careers and work-related experiences (CWRE) across the curriculum. Participants will try out AI tools to create career-linked lesson content, share ideas and approaches, and discover how to make the most of resources available on Careers Wales. The session also offers practical ideas to engage learners and link lessons to the world of work.

Very useful for me, I was aware of using AI for planning but never had the confidence to try, Thanks"

Book a place for AI for Careers in the Classroom (Health & Wellbeing) (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 12 March 2026.


National CWRE Network Meeting (Primary)

Date: 19 March 2026
Time: 1:00 to 2:00 pm
Language: English. Simultaneous Welsh translation available upon request.

Join our CWRE Primary Network Meetings to explore practical ways of embedding careers and work-related experiences across the Curriculum for Wales. Connect with Careers Wales, employers, and fellow practitioners to share ideas, access resources and support learners in understanding the world of work and their future opportunities.

Useful having the time to speak with other leaders."

Book a place for National CWRE Network Meeting (Primary) (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 14 March 2026.

This session will also run on 18 June 2026.


Summer Term

CWRE Audit Training

Date: 15 April 2026
Time: 3:30 to 4:30 pm
Language: English or Welsh

This session will give practical advice on how to audit your current CWRE provision, identify gaps and create an action plan to address any areas for improvement.

Trainer was very informative and knowledgeable, sharing many useful links and examples. Gave lots of ideas and things to add to my CWRE school audit and recognise what we already do. Thank You!"

Book a place for CWRE Audit Training (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 10 April 2026.


Using Careers Wales website and resources (Special Schools)

Date: 23 April 2026
Time: 3:15 to 4:00 pm
Language: English or Welsh

A session designed to help you improve your understanding of the many tools and resources on the Careers Wales website, and how they can be used to support your learners.

Extremely useful. Trainer explained the resources very well. Looking forward to using the resources more within lessons."

Book a place for Using Careers Wales website and resources (Special Schools) (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 18 April 2026.


National CWRE Network Meeting (Special Schools)

Date: 12 May 2026
Time: 2:00 to 3:00 pm
Language: English. Simultaneous Welsh translation available upon request.

Join our CWRE Special School & PRU Network Meetings to explore practical ways of embedding careers and work-related experiences across the Curriculum for Wales. Connect with Careers Wales, employers, and fellow practitioners to share ideas, access resources and support learners in understanding the world of work and their future opportunities.

Interesting to hear what everyone else is doing in similar and very different environments."

Book a place for National CWRE Network Meeting (Special Schools) (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 7 May 2026.


Careers in Your Curriculum

Date: 14 May 2026
Time: 9:30 to 12:30 pm
Language: English or Welsh

The Careers in Your Curriculum Programme provides training to support with planning, designing, and leading on careers and work-related experiences (CWRE) across the curriculum.

Really insightful training - lots of ideas provided to help embed CWRE within our school curriculum."

Book a place for Careers in Your Curriculum (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 9 May 2026.


National CWRE Network Meeting (Primary)

Date: 18 June 2026
Time: 1:00 to 2:00 pm
Language: English. Simultaneous Welsh translation available upon request.

Join our CWRE Primary Network Meetings to explore practical ways of embedding careers and work-related experiences across the Curriculum for Wales. Connect with Careers Wales, employers, and fellow practitioners to share ideas, access resources and support learners in understanding the world of work and their future opportunities.

It's been interesting to look at the reasons behind careers education and get ideas on how I can improve the provision in school. It's also been helpful to listen to what other schools have been doing and getting ideas. Thank you to all who delivered it!"

Book a place for National CWRE Network Meeting (Primary) (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 13 June 2026.


Careers City

Date: 25 June 2026
Time: 3:30 to 4:00 pm
Language: English or Welsh

An introductory session on how to make the most of Careers City, our bilingual resource developed to support primary schools to embed CWRE across the curriculum in a fun, engaging and easy way.

A great visual resource that will be useful for our learners."

Book a place for Careers City (MS Form)

Closing date to book - 20 June 2026.


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