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Developing a 21st Century Curriculum |  | “a strong coherent curriculum which has the flexibility to personalise...learning is crucial to driving up standards”
Making learning irresistible.
What do we need to do? Develop a modern world-class curriculum that will challenge and inspire all learners and prepare them for the future.
“Education only flourishes if it successfully adapts to the demands and needs of the time. The curriculum cannot remain static. It must be responsive to changes in society and the economy, and changes in the nature of schooling itself.”
National Curriculum 1999 What do we want for our pupils? - successful learners who enjoy learning, make progress and achieve
- confident individuals who are able to live a safe, healthy and fulfilling life
- active and responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society.
What are the forces for change? - Changes in society, social structures and the nature of work.
- The impact of technology on subjects and schooling.
- New understandings about the nature of learning.
- Increased global dimension to life, learning and work
- The public policy agenda (DCSF 5 year strategy, ECM) promoting innovation and personalisation
Why review the primary curriculum? - To create a strong, coherent curriculum which has flexibility to personalise teaching and learning
- To provide all pupils with a broad and balanced entitlement to learning which encourages creativity and inspires in them a commitment to learning that will last a lifetime
- To drive up standards, achieve the ambitions set out in the Children’s Plan and deliver the outcomes of the Every Child Matters agenda
- To narrow the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers.
What should we consider? - how to build on prior learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage ...and facilitate smooth transition for young people from primary to secondary school
- how to reduce prescription in the programmes of study
- how to widen the opportunities for child initiated and play-based learning
- when and how to introduce children to the key ideas and practice of subject areas of learning – the creative arts; the humanities; PE and sport and how languages should be introduced
- how to design a curriculum to improve outcomes for summer-born children
- what information should be passed between early years settings, primary schools and secondary schools to smooth transition
- how to develop a more integrated and simpler framework for the personal skills which all pupils should develop through their
- schooling.
What questions should we ask? 1. What are we trying to achieve through the curriculum?
2. How do we need to organise the curriculum to achieve
these aims?
3. How effectively are we evaluating the impact of the
curriculum? Join the Co- curriculum Group Together we can help create a curriculum that will truly challenge and inspire all learners and prepare them for the future. A curriculum that will open out their imaginations, raise their aspirations and prepare them for whatever this new century might hold.Contact: vaughn.mudie@iow.gov.uk
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