The new National Curriculum for primary schools

THE NEW NATIONAL CURRICULUM FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLSCluster Meeting

10th October 2013

Wandsworth Children's Services

Agenda• Network sharing of priorities, initial ideas and action plans• Setting cluster priorities• Facilitating cross school visits• Assessment; exploring assessment for the new

programmes of study• Learning resources library – how the LRC can support the

new curriculum• Updates on foundation subject development groups• Dates for Spring and Summer term meetings


Aims of the cluster groups

To meet regularly to:• Share experiences of implementing the new National

Curriculum• To address common priorities in more detail• To receive national updates • To receive subject specific updates from development

groups• To provide the forum for sharing curriculum and planning

resources


Where are you up to?

Discuss• What, if anything, have you been able to do since the

launch?• What are your early plans?• What have you identified as your key priorities?• Do you have priorities in common?


Facilitating cross school visits

Considering your early thoughts…•Are there any particular features of a curriculum that you would like to see in action?•Are there any particular features of your curriculum that you would like to offer?

Chesterton can offer…

Chesterton would like to meet (WLTM) a school where…


New attainment targets

The same for every subject:

‘By the end of each key stage, pupils are expected to know, apply and understand the matters, skills and processes specified in the relevant programme of study’.


Exploring assessment• Look at the PoS for English, mathematics or science for

year 4.• Putting yourself in the shoes of the year 4 teacher think

through the process of using the PoS like APP

• Would it be possible to ‘level’ a child’s work as being low, securely or high within the year group?

• What is positive about this approach?• What are the barriers to approaching assessment in this

way?• Are there any other approaches that may be useful to

explore?


Facilitating cross school visits part 2

• Read the WLTMs • Could you offer a visit to show this practice?


Resourcing the Curriculum

Planning Ahead

What do we have already in school?

What can we source from elsewhere?

What is not available?

Creative – but cautious

Not every area of the new curriculum has existing resources.

Publishers may be cautious. Always check before committing to

particular studies of countries, famous people and generic topics.

There isn’t always a suitable fiction text to accompany a topic.

What do we have in school?

Resources audit Classrooms, cupboards, stockrooms School Library Online subscriptions

What is available outside?

Learning Resources Service https://vimeo.com/76341902 Wandsworth Public Library Service Wandsworth Museum Work and Play Scrapstore

https://vimeo.com/76341902

Online Sources

Power of Reading website Child Education TES Website

Power of Reading

www.clpe.co.uk Detailed lesson plans for books from

Reception to Year 6 Creative and dynamic teaching ideas Tried and tested Examples of good practice Subscription service

http://www.clpe.co.uk/

Child/Nursery Education

www.scholastic.co.uk Over 8,000 downloadable resources Posters, worksheets, games Teacher submissions and reviews Regular e-mail updates Very cheap subscription

http://www.scholastic.co.uk/

Times Educational Supplement

www.tes.co.uk Over 80,000 free resources Uploaded and reviewed by teachers

http://www.tes.co.uk/

Pass it around!

Share with colleagues within school and outside

Wikipage LRS online catalogue Bulletin

English – Mathematics – Science - Computing

• Programmes for subject leaders and class teachers are now underway.

• Let us know if teachers are not getting places as courses fill up. We can repeat.


Curriculum Updates • Government investments: NCETM, STEM (primary science

grouped by topic).• £2m for additional master computer teachers• 'Expert groups' looking at challenges for ITE eg computing and

geography• Subject associations and publishers developing new materials

(eg The Historical Association)• DfE going where teachers go: TESonline, Guardian, Teachit,

SLT chat, through media channels ....• Ofsted monitoring of new curriculum – will check how schools

broadly preparing for curriculum as part of the leadership and management judgement.

• Priority focus on what schools are achieving, they will not police the match between curriculum and delivery.


Curriculum Development Groups- Updates

• Nick Miller and Peter Freeman will be working with the PE Curriculum Development Group. Guidance from the development groups will be fed into the re-established primary PE network meetings (Termly). The first took place on 4th October .

• Domini Stone from Network for Languages London has produced a primary languages questionnaire which will inform her work with the development group. Please complete today and leave with Davina/ Elizabeth.

• Dates for the history and P.E. development group will be released over the next week. Details will be put up onto the wikispace and emailed to you directly.

• Would development groups for PSHE and RE also be useful?


Timetable of changes

Rising Stars have created a useful table documenting the implementation timeline of the National Curriculum

http://www.risingstars-uk.com/uploads/publications/1204.Pdf





Keeping updated

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The new National Curriculum for primary schools