Delivering the new national curriculum
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Delivering the new national
curriculum
BETT Leaders Summit, 23 January
Jim Magee, Assistant Director, DfE
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Aims
To discuss the three strands of the government’s approach to
delivery within a school-led system:
system leadership
teaching materials
communications – raising awareness
…providing a sense of what’s being done by government,
and what by others
Overall approach
“…But what really matters is that this is a new approach to
education, one that gives head teachers and schools far
greater freedom. How they implement the national
curriculum is down to them.
There will be no new statutory document telling teachers
how to do their job. No national strategies telling teachers
everything that they have to do. No national roll-out. This is
a huge cultural shift.”
Elizabeth Truss, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (education
and childcare) Speech at: http://www.education.gov.uk/inthenews/speeches/a00222888/felcom
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Recap on the review
new national curriculum sees government setting
out the ‘what’ (at a high level) – making sure that
pupils grasp the concepts – and not the ‘how’
shorter programmes of study setting out core
content – especially in foundation subjects and key
stage 3
fuller for key stage 1-2 maths and English, but so
important
1. System leadership
Moving to a school-led system a key feature of the
government’s policy – less well reported
real expansion of system leaders across England:
• 355 teaching schools, 299 alliances, with c.20
schools per alliance
• over 800 national support schools (NLEs)
• Over 2000 LLEs
Schools Direct – major shift in delivering ITE
announced £2m to help teaching schools to support
schools in their alliance and beyond to plan for
change
aiming for geographical coverage, some proposals
working with hundreds of schools
focus on primary, mathematics, English, science,
computing and languages
supporting change management – auditing
strengths, identifying materials
Supporting the new curriculum
2. Teaching resources
This curriculum makes new demands of teachers’ subject
knowledge
schools’ needs will differ and it is for them to identify their areas
for development
government is focussing investment in priority areas – maths,
science, computing
‘expert groups’ have been looking at the challenges of the new
curriculum for ITE and serving teachers and how they might be
addressed
subject associations and publishers developing new materials:
http://www.besa.org.uk/home, http://www.publishers.org.uk/;
Good CPD guide: http://goodcpdguide.com/
Curriculum change
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National college have developed online resources to help
schools plan curriculum change:
http://www.education.gov.uk/nationalcollege/leadingcurricu
lumdevelopmentresource
o how good is your current curriculum?
o what makes a great curriculum?
o how can learning be organised?
Reena Keeble on leading change in her school:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trfAzeifaIY
Mathematics high expectations consistent with age-related expectation in high performing
jurisdictions e.g. Singapore and Massachusetts
multiplication tables – up to 12x12 by end of year 4
fractions – harder content on calculations, including multiplication and
division, by end KS2
formal written methods e.g. long division
NCETM new micro-site: https://www.ncetm.org.uk/resources/40851
Mathematics Education Strategic Hubs (MESH) – 30 teaching school led hubs,
supporting others in their area
Debbie Morgan (NCETM): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4aDZEZaF_A
Andrew Carter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSMkgNu3ptw
Helen Drury:
http://community.tes.co.uk/national_curriculum_2014/b/mathematics1/archive/2013/1
2/13/secondary-maths-in-the-national-curriculum-by-dr-helen-drury.aspx
English
Greater emphasis on grammar, spelling and punctuation and higher
expectations of spelling at an earlier age
Focus on fundamentals of spoken and written word and reading and
understanding a wide range of books and poetry
Expert group: National Literacy Trust hosting a free planning tool:
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/schools_teaching/curriculum
Phonics programmes and resources
http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/pedagogy/phonic
s/b00198579
http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/pedagogy/a0019
1791/match-funding-for-systematic-synthetic-phonics-products-and-training
article from James Clements:
http://community.tes.co.uk/national_curriculum_2014/b/english/archive/2013
/12/05/english-in-the-national-curriculum-by-james-clements.aspx
Science
more precision, introduced in line with high performing
jurisdictions
focus on core fundamentals of science
coherence in working scientifically from key stage 1 to 4
STEM centre: www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/primaryscience
Expert group materials: http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/stem-
in-context/support-for-science-ITE
Pauline Hoyle podcast:
http://community.tes.co.uk/national_curriculum_2014/b/science/archi
ve/2013/12/05/watch-pauline-hoyle-on-the-science-curriculum.aspx
Computing much greater focus on practical experience of programming and
understanding the fundamental principles of computer science.
From ages 11 to 14, pupils will be taught how to code and use a
range of programming languages to help solve computer
problems
extended Master Computer Teachers programme
Computing at school (CAS) network
http://www.computingatschool.org.uk/
recently announced £1.1m scheme for
supporting primary teachers
http://www.codecademy.com/schools/curriculum
expert group resources:
– https://sites.google.com/site/primaryictitt/ – https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbW
FpbnxwcmltYXJ5aWN0aXR0fGd4OjE2ZTMyM2Y1NTM0ZjdiNTE
– https://sites.google.com/site/primaryictitt/home/research
History
chronological approach across key stages 2 and 3
new periods at key stage 2
key skills to be developed within historical knowledge
Free expert group materials to be available at: www.history.org.uk
National Archives:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/victorians/ViewSection.aspx
Free school trips: http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/education
First World War battlefield tours:
http://www.ioe.ac.uk/research/87073.html
Holocaust programmes – two students from every school/sixth form
college in England to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau
Geography
greater clarity on locational knowledge
more content on human and physical geography
greater emphasis on fieldwork
expert group materials:
– range of overview pieces, on pedagogy and thinking
geographically
– guidance on locational, map work, fieldwork
available at: http://geognc.wordpress.com
Languages
new requirement to teach foreign languages in primary schools at
KS2
new content on translation at KS3
literature at KS3 – more explicit reference to reading literary texts
grammar and vocabulary at KS3
Linda Dupret: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKPcpJtfKhI
Expert group overview of materials to be hosted at www.all-
languages.org.uk
Free materials, e.g.
– Mandarin: http://ciforschools.wordpress.com/teaching-
materials/primary-materials/
– Japanese:
http://www.jpf.org.uk/language/primaryjapanesecampaign.php
Design and technology
Pupils to be taught a variety of approaches to the design,
e.g. biomimicry
increase in the level of sophistication in the use of
electronics
cooking now compulsory at KS3, and wider range of
content
DATA and expert group have produced:
– annotated guide to the KS 1-3 programmes of study
– and six principles for guiding and evaluating practice,
with examples and questions to prompt reflection
– both of these tools are available at
https://www.data.org.uk/for-education/curriculum/dt-
national-curriculum-for-england-2014/
Music
Greater focus on music-making and for activities to be
undertaken musically
Greater emphasis on encouraging pupils to progress to
the next level of musical excellence
More emphasis on listening with discrimination to high
quality live and recorded music
Music hubs
http://www.musicmark.org.uk/about-our-members/music-
services-directory
Expert group materials due to go live at:
www.teachingmusic.org.uk
PE/sport More emphasis on being physically active in PE and on competitive sport
Dance introduced to key stage 3 for the first time
Strengthening opportunities for activities outside of school, for example links
between school and community/club sports (supported by, for e.g. the
Satellite Clubs programme)
Expert group materials on the AfPE website:
http://www.afpe.org.uk/advice-on-new-national-
curriculum
Primary sport premium (information, examples and
useful links to organisations):
https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/getting-more-
people-playing-sport/supporting-pages/school-pe-and-
sport-funding
Art and Design
stronger focus on the teaching of drawing from an early
age
new emphasis on knowing about the historical
development of art through a greater emphasis on
teaching about great artists and designers
new open-source expert group materials will be on the
subject association’s site: www.nsead.org
Citizenship
Greater focus on political systems and UK government
Requirement that all children should have the
opportunity to perform voluntary work in their community
Personal financial education
free materials at: http://www.teachingcitizenship.org.uk/resources
free personal financial education materials at:
http://www.pfeg.org/
established an expert group on citizenship – more to
follow
3. Raising awareness
We’re raising awareness of:
the curriculum reforms themselves
what’s already available to support teachers – there’s
quite a lot out there
schools that have already introduced elements of the
new curriculum, such as those in the maths mastery
network
we are going where teachers go – TESonline, Guardian,
SLT chat and through our media channels
REFERENCE LIBRARY: www.gov.uk/dfe/nationalcurriculum - final PoS and links to
funded resources
DIRECT
COMMS
SHOWCASE AND AMPLIFY OTHERS’ WORK
COMMERCIAL: publishers, conference organisers, membership orgs (e.g. Scholastic,
Govnet, The Key)
+ Flickr, Itunes,
Slideshare, Linked
In, media
FACILITATE / SUPPORT OTHERS TO
COMMUNICATE
Tweet-meets
Supersharers
Other
subject
communities
Expert groups
Public Twitter
lists
ASCL,
NAHT, NGA
Subject
associations
Bloggers
and
tweeters
Playlists
RTs
Reposts
+ NCTL channels
#NCready?
Aggregators
Looking ahead
September 2014: first teaching of national curriculum,
except years 2 and 6 for English, mathematics and
science, and key stage 4 EMS
May 2015: final key stage 2 tests based on previous
curriculum
May 2016: first new key stage 2 tests and whatever
baseline assessment is decided after consultation
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Links and contact details
National curriculum contacts:
National curriculum information sheet:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-
curriculum-and-assessment-information-for-schools
DfE TES page:
http://community.tes.co.uk/national_curriculum_2014/b/default.
aspx
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