Why create school projects?

Creating school projects can be a great way to cover any gaps in coverage. When you create a school project and build your own lessons that are linked to our skills and knowledge, it enables you to track coverage and attainment against the Curriculum for Wales and demonstrate how you have adapted and developed your curriculum for the needs of your school. Any school projects that are added into the Cwricwlwm designer count in the school's overall intended coverage. 

 Below are some of the most common reasons for creating school projects.

·         to include local history, geography or events

·         to develop companion projects for short, focused topics, such as science week, Christmas activities, Easter and community weeks

·         to cover gaps in coverage based on current project choices

·         to acknowledge the creativity of teachers who have created successful projects or topics previously

·         to support peripatetic teaches with specific AoLE focus, such as music or PE

·         to build in other programmes used in school to track coverage and attainment all in one place, such as SPaG, religious education and modern foreign languages

To read more about designing your own curriculum, read our article: Designing your curriculum.

Creating a school project

1.      Go to Design and lead > Create school projects. 

2.      Click 'Create'.

3.      Add a title.

4.      Optional: make it a companion to another project (read more about project types)

5.      Add a driver AoLE.

6.      Optional: choose an image.

7.      Optional: add a description.

8.      Click 'Next'.

This takes you to the project summary. The next step is to add lessons.

1.      Go to the Lesson builder tab.

2.      Click 'Create lesson'.

3.      Use the filters to search by year group, or All WMS/Just gaps.

4.      Once the WMS have loaded, use the small arrow on the left to view available skills and knowledge. 

5.      Select the skill that you will create the lesson from.

6.      Click 'Create lesson'.

7.      Click 'Save'.

You can create individual lessons with multiple skills, or create a group of individual lessons each with a single skill.

Your lessons will appear in a list. Use the arrows to drag and drop them into the order that you wish to teach them. 

Editing and grouping lessons

To edit a lesson, click the blue pencil icon on the right-hand side of an individual lesson.  You can then edit the title, duration, description or edit the objective(s) that you have chosen.

You can also add a 'focus'. Adding the same focus to multiple individual lessons will group them together.

Make sure that, whenever you make changes, you click 'Save' in the top left-hand corner of the Edit school project page.

Deleting school projects

To delete a school project:

1.      Go to Design and lead > Create school projects.

2.      Click the title of the project you wish to delete.

3.      Click the 'Options' button at the top of the screen.

4.      Select 'Delete project'.

Note: This project will then be removed from your Live curriculum, Curriculum plan and Class plans if it has been added.