Intentional Progression Toolkit | Bilingual | Curriculum for Wales

Progression within the Curriculum for Wales is often discussed — but not always articulated clearly across a whole setting.

This Intentional Progression Framework has been designed to support purposeful, collaborative professional dialogue around progression — without prescribing what it should look like in your school.

Rather than providing a fixed model, this resource offers a structured thinking framework that helps teams define progression intentionally, keeping conceptual depth, independence and language development at the centre of curriculum design.

What’s Included - English and Welsh versions

• Intentional Progression Framework (PDF, PowerPoint & Canva)
• Structured prompts aligned to Statements of What Matters
• Clear progression lenses:
  o Knowledge
  o Skill
  o Independence
  o Transfer
  o Language
• Designed to be used collaboratively across progression steps
• Encourages depth and conceptual development rather than task accumulation

1. Whole-School Progression Overview (Excel)

• One sheet per AoLE
• Progression mapped horizontally from Pre-Progression Step to Step 5
• Structured for clear collation of discussion outcomes
• Includes an Observations / Gaps / CPD column to support ongoing refinement
• Designed as a working curriculum document rather than a one-off exercise

Who Is This For?

• Senior leaders responsible for curriculum design
• AoLE teams developing progression models
• Phase leaders facilitating professional dialogue
• Schools refining and aligning progression across steps

What This Resource Is Not

• A completed progression model
• A prescriptive curriculum
• A tick-box tracking document
  It is a professional tool to support schools in articulating progression clearly, collaboratively and coherently within their own context.

If you are looking to make progression conversations more structured, visible and actionable within your setting, this framework provides a practical starting point.