Curriculum and the primary phase
Curriculum and how it is woven together to create meaning, build understanding and allow pupils to develop a range of core and thinking skills over time is an essential ingredient that defines how well a school is judged to be creating high quality educational outcomes for all their pupils. The curriculum is much more than a suite of subjects that are taught in isolated lessons steered by a blue print of programmes of study or other traditional paradigm.
Those charged with planning the content of the primary curriculum must have the language and a deep conviction to communicate the vision for what will be taught and empower those who have the privilege to teach with the desire to inspire a learning journey from early years to adulthood.
I have collected together the deep research and subsequent materials, resources and interactive activities that have created powerful professional development opportunities for many primary school senior leadership teams and their staff and put them into a nine chapter book. My vision when I began this endeavour was to create something that would allow all those involved in the business of curriculum to have answers and some practical approaches to how to ensure their curriculum has the substance and depth that is examined through both formal and informal inspection, scrutiny and observation.
The curriculum vocabulary is much more than a suite of subjects