Llandudno Seminars 2027
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09:00 - 09:50
Happiness First: 14 Habits draining your joy and how to reclaim it!
Through humour, storytelling, neuroscience and practical strategies you will leave feeling uplifted, re-energised and equipped to protect their joy, reconnect with their purpose, create healthier boundaries and show up at their best in life, work and relationships.
09:00 - 09:50
Hold The Rope: Turning allyship into everyday action
A powerful, memorable session about moving from good intentions to practical allyship, helping staff challenge exclusion, support colleagues and stand up for pupils who may feel marginalised. 
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Joanne Lockwood 
09:00 - 09:50
The Submerged Rocks: How cognitive biases bnfluence safeguarding decisions
This seminar explores the hidden cognitive biases that influence safeguarding judgement, including confirmation bias, groupthink, authority bias, availability bias and the halo effect.
09:00 - 09:50
SEN Seminar
Behaviour Is Communication: Understanding what distressed children are really telling us
This session explores behaviour through the lens of nervous system regulation, emotional safety and neurodiversity, helping delegates distinguish between compliance difficulties and genuine distress.
09:00 - 09:50
Bothered About Here: Cynein, curiosity and a curriculum that matters
This practical Botheredness® workshop explores Cynefin through place, people, story and curiosity. Using real examples from classrooms, Hywel Roberts will demonstrate how an ordinary street, landscape, object, photograph or local story can become the starting point for rich learning across the curriculum. 
09:00 - 09:50
SEN Seminar
Regulate, Motivate, Engage: Rethinking readiness to learn in ALN/SEND
This practical session explores the relationship between regulation, motivation, engagement and learning. We will consider sensory differences, communication, relationships and cognitive demand, challenging assumptions that disengagement automatically means inability or poor behaviour.
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Emma Noel Pinnock 
09:00 - 09:50
Addysgu a Dysgu- Ysgol Llanfairpwll
Byddwn yn craffu ar unedau penodol o waith yr ydym wedi eu creu gan egluro'r dulliau addysgu a dysgu yr ydym wedi eu datblygu a'u hyrwyddo gan gyfeirio at yr ymchwil sydd yn sail i'n syniadau.
09:00 - 09:50
Darparu ar gyfer y disgybl cyfan
Bydd y cyflwyniad yn cynnig cipolwg o'r strategaethau mae'r ysgol yn defnyddio er mwyn cyrraedd y nod yma, strategaethau sydd wedi eu adnabod fel arfer dda mewn ymweliad gan Estyn.
09:00 - 09:50
Beyond Burnout: How to build a school where staff thrive, stay and perform
This practical seminar explores how school leaders can move beyond wellbeing initiatives and create a culture where staff feel valued, supported and equipped to flourish. You'll discover evidence-informed strategies that strengthen resilience, improve morale and foster a positive workplace culture, without adding to workload. 
09:00 - 09:50
It’s Not The Budget That’s Holding Your School Back! This is…
There's a powerful lever that can drive greater improvement than additional funding alone, and it's one every school already has access to, regardless of budget. This thought-provoking and practical seminar will reveal what that lever is, explore the evidence behind it and show you how to use it effectively.
10:30 - 11:20
SEN Seminar
The top 5 strategies to lead a neurodiverse classroom
In this interactive, evidence-based seminar, we will explore five overarching strategies: adapting communication, creating supportive learning environments, supporting attentional regulation, strengthening executive functioning and memory and reducing learner anxiety.
10:30 - 11:20
More Than Just Fresh Air: Wellbeing in the outdoor classroom
The session combines a research-informed rationale with ideas for teachers working across phases, subjects and settings, including schools with limited access to green space. 
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Dr. Graham French 
10:30 - 11:20
Bringing Back the Buzz!
This session will provide practical strategies for making learning irresistible, rebuilding classrooms where curiosity is visible and both pupils and teachers feel the spark again. 
10:30 - 11:20
SEN Seminar
Why they know what to do…but still can’t do it?
This practical session explores the hidden cognitive processes behind planning, working memory, task initiation, organisation, emotional regulation and flexible thinking.
10:30 - 11:20
Dysgu yn gyntaf, technoleg yn ail
Bydd y seminar hon yn edrych ar sut gallwn wneud dewisiadau doeth ynghylch defnyddio technoleg. Byddem yn trafod sut y gall ymarferwyr wneud dewisiadau pwrpasol am dechnoleg, gan sicrhau bod anghenion dysgwyr a bwriadau addysgiadol yn llywio'r defnydd o offer digidol.
10:30 - 11:20
Gosod Sylfaen Trochi Iaith yn y Blynyddoedd Cynnar.
Dysgu am y Dull Trochi, sut mae Cynllun Croesi’r Bont yn cefnogi trochi plant ifanc yn y Gymraeg, a deall pwysigrwydd a dulliau pontio effeithiol rhwng y Cylch Meithrin a’r Ysgol Gynradd.
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Lou Stevens Jones
10:30 - 11:20
High Quality Self-Evaluation and School Improvement
This practical session explores the key principles of high-quality self-evaluation, including what to evaluate, how to gather meaningful evidence, who should be involved and when.
10:30 - 11:20
From Drama to Presence: A new operating system for school leadership
School leadership doesn't run out of ideas; it runs out of presence. In the pressure of a school day, it's easy to slip into blame, defensiveness or rescuing others from problems that aren't yours to fix. This fast-paced, practical seminar introduces the core ideas of Conscious Leadership to help you recognise the moment you tip into drama and choose a different way through. 
10:30 - 11:20
AI for Better Reading: Safe, practical strategies for every learner
This session explores how teachers from all settings can use AI safely and purposefully to raise standards for every learner. We will unpack the DfE Product Safety Standards alongside Welsh Government guidance, explaining what they mean and how to judge whether a tool meets them before use.
10:30 - 11:20
When People Push Back: Handling difficult conversations with confidence
This practical seminar explores how to deal confidently with difficult people, navigate challenging conversations and reduce conflict before situations escalate.
10:30 - 11:20
More Than a Change of Scenery; Making the outdoor environment an active participant in learning
In this fast-paced, practical workshop, delegates will experience a range of curriculum-based challenges exploring subjects such as maths, literacy, science and creativity. Through active, engaging experiences, we'll explore how the environment itself can shape the learning, spark curiosity and create meaningful opportunities for children to think, investigate and problem-solve.
12:00 - 12:50
Creating velcro in safeguarding culture
Participants will explore how safeguarding culture can act as the "Velcro" that prevents poor practice from gaining traction and will leave with practical tools to assess risk, challenge complacency and strengthen a sustainable culture where concerns are noticed, discussed and acted upon. 
12:00 - 12:50
Courageous ALN/SEND Leadership: When inclusion requires us to do things differently
This session explores how leaders and ALNCos/SENCOs can create cultures where inclusion is everybody’s responsibility.
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Emma Noel Pinnock
12:00 - 12:50
SEN Seminar
Insights from an autistic teacher: Meeting the needs of autistic children in schools
This seminar will explore what the education experience looks like from an autistic perspective and discuss how to improve the schooling experience of those who learn differently. 
12:00 - 12:50
When People Push Back: Handling difficult conversations with confidence
This practical seminar explores how to deal confidently with difficult people, navigate challenging conversations and reduce conflict before situations escalate.
12:00 - 12:50
AI, Belonging & the Human Future of Education
In this thought-provoking and practical seminar, Joanne Lockwood explores how education leaders can embrace AI without losing trust, fairness, belonging or human connection.
12:00 - 12:50
When Every Behaviour Tells A Story: Practical strategies to support pupils with increasing mental health needs
This engaging and practical seminar will equip school staff with simple, evidence-informed strategies to recognise early signs of distress, respond with confidence and create emotionally safe learning environments where pupils can thrive.
12:00 - 12:50
Let’s Say…Story, Talk and Botheredness in the Curriculum for Wales
In this lively, practical session, Hywel Roberts explores how story, talk and imagination can bring the Curriculum for Wales to life. 
12:00 - 12:50
The Classroom They Remember: Creating a culture children love being part of, without losing yourself
I’ll explore how teachers can use their strengths and interests while inviting pupils to shape a shared classroom identity.
12:00 - 12:50
Y Gwyddoniaeth a’r Seicoleg tu ol i Ddysgu Ddarllen
Yn y seminar hwn, bydd Dr Manon Jones yn archwilio’r wyddoniaeth a’r seicoleg sy’n sail i ddatblygiad darllen, gan edrych ar y prosesau gwybyddol sy’n galluogi plant i symud o adnabod seiniau a geiriau i ddarllen yn fwy rhugl, deallus ac annibynnol.
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Yr Athro Manon Jones
12:00 - 12:50
Hyder i Ffynnu: Offer Ymarferol i Gefnogi Iechyd a Lles Dysgwyr
Yn y seminar ymarferol a rhyngweithiol hwn, bydd Dyddgu Morgan-Hywel yn archwilio sut y gall addysgwyr feithrin hyder dysgwyr, cryfhau eu gwytnwch a chefnogi eu hiechyd a'u lles drwy ddefnyddio dulliau hyfforddi effeithiol.
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Dyddgu Morgan-Hywel
12:00 - 12:50
More Than a Change of Scenery; Making the outdoor environment an active participant in learning
In this fast-paced, practical workshop, delegates will experience a range of curriculum-based challenges exploring subjects such as maths, literacy, science and creativity. Through active, engaging experiences, we'll explore how the environment itself can shape the learning, spark curiosity and create meaningful opportunities for children to think, investigate and problem-solve.
13:30 - 14:20
SEN Seminar
Big Emotions, Practical Solutions: Understanding emotional regulation zones
This practical seminar explores how brain development, neurodiversity and the learning environment influence emotional responses.
13:30 - 14:20
Build A Coaching Culture: How to use coaching to empower colleagues and drive school improvement.
This practical seminar will explore how coaching can empower colleagues, strengthen leadership and improve performance across schools. Discover how principals can use coaching to support academic, pastoral and inclusion leads, how senior leaders can explore curriculum and data with middle leaders and how middle leaders can use coaching following lesson observations.
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Jonathan Ferstenberg
13:30 - 14:20
SEN Seminar
ADHD, Autism and Literacy: How we can support children and young people in the classroom
In this interactive, evidence-based seminar, we will explore practical strategies to create a reader and writer friendly classroom environment for children and young people with Autism and/or ADHD, including working with the ADHD and Autistic attentional and working memory systems, engagement and practical support for writing.  
13:30 - 14:20
Keep Up or Catch Up? Ensuring every learner can make progress in m mathematics
This practical session explores two complementary approaches, helping learners keep up through responsive teaching, assessment, purposeful revisiting and timely intervention and helping learners catch up when significant gaps have already developed.  
13:30 - 14:20
Attendance Starts with Belonging: Practical strategies to reduce absence
In this practical seminar, Ian draws on his experience as a school leader and school improvement consultant to explore how attendance, belonging, behaviour and safeguarding connect.
13:30 - 14:20
Preparing Young People for a Rapidly Changing World: Every child a changemaker
How schools can help young people develop empathy, agency, teamwork and the confidence to create positive change equipping them to thrive in a world, especially one increasingly shaped by AI.
13:30 - 14:20
Developing and Sustaining the Conditions to Thrive: Learning from a Trauma and ACE-informed Approach in Wales
This session will consider how, by adopting a trauma-and ACE-informed approach in the education system we can create the conditions that enable us to help children, young people, their families and the people who work so hard to support them feel hope.
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Dr Joanne Hopkins
13:30 - 14:20
Why Copying Other Schools Doesn’t Work (But this does!)
This session shows you what that step is, with real examples of ideas that worked, ideas that didn't, and exactly what the difference was.
13:30 - 14:20
Arfer dda o ddatblygu medrau darllen
Yn y seminar hwn byddwn yn rhannu arferion effeithiol mewn datblygu medrau darllen yn y sector cynradd.
13:30 - 14:20
AI ac Addysg: Datgloi Amser ar gyfer yr Hyn Sy’n Bwysig
Bydd y sesiwn hon yn edrych ar sut y gall athrawon ac arweinwyr ddefnyddio offer AI mewn ffordd ddiogel, gyfrifol ac effeithiol i gefnogi tasgau dyddiol megis cynllunio gwersi, creu adnoddau dysgu, addasu deunyddiau ar gyfer gwahanol alluoedd, paratoi asesiadau a drafftio cyfathrebiadau.
13:30 - 14:20
Once Upon a Playground: You don’t need to be a storyteller. You need to notice stories
In this practical, participatory workshop, delegates will experience how storytelling can emerge from the outdoor environment. Through folklore, close-up exploration and simple story-building challenges, participants will discover how everyday places can spark curiosity, imagination and creativity.
15:00 - 15:50
Beyond Chatbots: A teacher’s guide to agentic AI in education
This practical and forward-thinking seminar cuts through the hype to explore what agentic AI could mean for teachers and schools.
15:00 - 15:50
Teaching with AI without losing the learning: Practical strategies from learning science
Moving from theory to practice, this session uses learning science and metacognition to explore practical approaches to AI-supported learning.
15:00 - 15:50
Mixed-Age Maths Without Doubling Your Work: Making mixed-age mathematics manageable
This practical session explores how teachers can identify connections across mathematical topics, establish shared starting points and provide appropriate challenge for learners working at different stages. 
15:00 - 15:50
SEN Seminar
Building a healthy self-perception in neurodivergent pupils
This seminar will help staff recognise the signs of negative self-perception in neurodivergent children and explore how to help them build the positive outlook about themselves that they deserve.
15:00 - 15:50
CAL:ON Cymru: Strengthening Literacy Across Wales
This practical session helps school leaders and teachers build a coherent, whole-school approach to literacy. Drawing on CAL:ON Cymru's national structured literacy framework, we will look at how schools across Wales are raising reading and writing outcomes through evidence-informed teaching, assessment and intervention.
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Professor Manon Jones
15:00 - 15:50
Making Inclusion Work: Universal design for learning, AI and high-quality teaching in action
This practical session explores how Universal Design for Learning can help teachers design learning that is flexible, accessible and ambitious for all learners.
15:00 - 15:50
Dysgu: Y gefnogaeth sydd ar gael ar gyfer datblygu rhifedd
Yn y cyflwyniad hwn, bydd swyddog dysgu, Rhian Carruthers sydd a phrofiad helaeth o arwain Mathemateg a Rhifedd yn amlinellu’r cymorth sydd ar gael i ysgolion er mwyn cryfhau datblygiad mathemateg a rhifedd ar draws pob maes dysgu a phrofiad.
15:00 - 15:50
Cynnig Cenedlaethol i’r Gweithlu Addysg
Bydd cyfle i’r cyfranogwyr ar y dydd gofrestru ar gwrs gan holi pa lefel sy’n addas ar eu cyfer. Bydd cyfle iddyn nhw gael blas ar yr amrywiaeth cyrsiau yn ystod y sesiwn, a bod y cyflwyniad hefyd yn cynnwys elfen ar gynllunio’r gweithlu i gwrdd â gofynion y ddeddf gan baratoi ysgolion cyfrwng Saesneg, ysgolion dwy iaith ac ysgolion cyfrwng Cymraeg at y newidiadau.
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Cynrychiolydd o’r Ganolfan Dysgu Cymraeg Genedlaethol