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Designing a Thematic Curriculum
March 2015
George Faux
Vice Principal
Shireland Collegiate Academy
Context
• Secondary Academy in Sandwell in the West Midlands
• 1286 students and growing
• 60% Pupil Premium
• 89% Ethnic Minority, 62% English as a second language.
• Teaching school
• Judged outstanding in 2006/2010/2013
Literacy for Life is an
integrated, thematic,
competency based
curriculum created for our
Key Stage 3 students.
It is delivered thematically
making up the majority of
students curriculum.
Strong literacy in context
base.
Literacy For Life (L4L)
An Overriding Philosophy
Make students safe and secure.
Give students a positive ethos in their learning – let them feel success.
Teach students the skills they need to be good learners and know what they need to do to improve.
Provide an engaging curriculum.
Get good results.
Fully Integrated
CurriculumEnglish
Mathematics
Science
History
Geography
RE
PD
PE
DT
Art
Dance
Music
Drama
Languages
ICT
14 – 17 Teachers
L4L
Science
PE
DT
Art
Music
6 Teachers
Year 719 hours a week
Year 813 hours a week
Year 99 hours a week
“My daughter has 17 teachers and she does not know if she is coming or going.”
“My daughter is making fantastic progress in lessons.”
“The base has made my son feel really safe and happy”
The one teacher model means staff can really know their students.
This allows for a fantastic degree of differentiation and personalisation.
Three Key Elements
Sin
gle
Teac
her
, Sin
gle
Bas
e • Allows students to be quickly immersed in an ethos.
• Safe and secure with minimal movement.
• Teachers who really know the students and their families.
Co
mp
eten
cy B
ased
Cu
rric
ulu
m • Provides specific information to target students.
• Shows students the full spectrum of their learning.
• Allows assessment to focus on whole child development.
Inte
grat
ed T
hem
es • Engaging for students allowing for in depth learning experiences.
• Learning takes place in context.
• Allows joint planning and differentiation to three levels.
Competency Based Assessment• 10 Literacies
• Around 150 competencies split over three levels.
• Over 30000 competencies entered this year.
• To allow students to know where they are and what they have to do next to improve.
• NC Levels are fine and we cover the national curriculum, this gives us a specific formative approach and covers other areas.
Assessment Model
Ensuring Coverage
• Live Software Demonstration.
• Competency Tracker
Competency Tracker
Themes
Starting Discussion
• Trello
Theme Construction
A Theme
Overview
Lesson Plans
• Group Planning
• Differentiated to
three levels.
Activities
• An audience for
each activity.
• ICT is embedded
Technology At the Heart
• Khan Academy
• My Maths
• Sam Learning
• Gear Up
• Open University Partnership
• Tute
• Big History Project
• Quality One to One Devices• 3D Printing• 3D Design and Modelling• Online Office 365 Connectivity• App Design and Coding• Tablets• Learning Gateway
• Class Sites• Subject Sites• Resource Sites• Tracker• Audio and Visual Feedback• Flipped Learning• Collaborative Technology• ICT Never Taught in Isolation
Online Resources
Technology Supporting the Change in Pedagogy
Supportive Infrastructure
Drive Workshops
Workshops every few weeks
where students “catch up” on
competencies that they need to
master.
Built on students ability to be
reflective learners.
Reinforces the maxim of not just
moving on but really dealing with
students misconceptions.
24 put on at once using teachers
from across KS3 with mixed year
groups.
We collapse our timetable once a week for a day and every half term for a week.
They deliver and reinforce key outputs and allow for more audience and real life learning.
They also allow students to create outputs they are proud of. Encouraging Audiencedand Exploratary Learning
Global Publishing Day
Achievement Weeks/ Focus Days
Child Initiated Learning
• The final piece of our puzzle.
Student Reads
Competency
Student Tests with
attached Resources
Student Mails
Teacher
Teacher Responds
Student is Upgraded on
their Competency
Next Challenge
• From September we will be taking the curriculum into two other schools.
• L4L is a living breathing entity, not something set in stone. Things like the new Mathematics curriculum will see a change in every themes numeracy content.
Thank you