New Primary National Curriculum

Timetable

The new Primary National Curriculum is statutory for children going into Year 1, Year 3, Year 4 and Year 5 from September 2014

Children going into Year 2 and Year 6 will be under the old curriculum for next year since they are close to the end of their respective Key Stages

Overview of changes

It’s more demanding Levels will go, schools will be able to

develop their own ways of monitoring progress

SATs will stay, but there will be no Level 6 papers at KS2 and no calculators in maths

Changes for maths

What’s hot? Formal written methods

(earlier) (see appendix) Times tables up to 12 x

12 (Year 4) Fractions (earlier & more

of) Roman numerals (Years

4 & 5) Algebra (Year 6)

What’s not? Informal written

methods Calculators (largely) Probability Data Handling (now

called Statistics) (less of, and none in Year 1)

Changes for English

What’s hot? Phonics Comprehension Reading for pleasure Learning poetry by

heart Drama Stages in writing

process SPAG (see

appendices 1 & 2)

What’s not? Reading strategies

that aren’t based on phonics eg building a sight vocabulary of high frequency words

Speaking & Listening is now called Spoken Language

Using ICT eg word processing work/ inserting images

Support for KUWTC tutors

Family Learning KUWTC wiki pages DP for your area (who’s probably

teaching it too) Subject Leaders in the school Organisations like NCETM, National

Literacy Trust and Times Educational Supplement (need a log in for their resources)