All change The Primary Curriculum Reviews

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All change! The Primary Curriculum Review/s

• 25.9.08
• Soo Sturrock
• PGCE Primary
• Course Leader

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• Primary National Strategy (P.N.S)
• Excellence and enjoyment A
• strategy for primary schools
• Schools should take
• greater ownership of
• the curriculum and be
• more innovative and
• creative about how they
• Teach and run the
• school

• Every Child Matters (ECM)
• A major new approach to
• the well-being of children
• from birth to age 19.
• 5 key aims
• Be healthy
• Stay safe
• Enjoy and achieve
• Make a positive contribution
• Achieve economic well-being

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Curriculum reform?

• 2007 The Primary Review is a wide-ranging and
  independent enquiry into the condition and future
  of primary education in England.
• Most comprehensive such investigation since the
  Plowden Report in 1967.

• Jan 2008 The Primary Curriculum review ..follows
  a secondary curriculum review and the
  introduction of an early years "foundation stage"
  and you shouldn't, as Rose puts it, "just extend
  one backwards, the other forwards, tie a knot in
  the middle and say that's primary education".

http//www.primaryreview.org.uk/
www.dcsf.gov.uk/primarycurriculumreview/
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The Primary Review

• Children and Childhood. What do we know about
  young childrens lives in and out of school, and
  about the nature of childhood, at the start of
  the 21st century? What do children most
  fundamentally need from those charged with
  providing their primary education?
• Culture, Society and the Global Context. In what
  kind of society and world are todays children
  growing up and being educated? What must be done
  in order that todays children, and their
  children, have a future worth looking forward to?
• Education. To what needs and purposes should it
  be chiefly directed over the coming decades? What
  values should it espouse? What learning
  experiences should it provide? By what means can
  its quality be secured and sustained?

http//www.primaryreview.org.uk/Themes_and_questio
ns/The10ReviewThemes.html
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With according probing questions..

• Core themes purposes, content, process and
  quality in primary education
• Theme 1 - Purposes and Values.
• Theme 2 Learning and teaching.
• Theme 3 - Curriculum and Assessment.
• Theme 4 - Quality and Standards.
• Theme 5 Diversity and Inclusion.
• Theme 6 - Settings and Professionals.
• Contingent themes contexts and conditions for
  primary education
• Theme 7 - Parenting, Caring and Educating.
• Theme 8 Beyond the school.
• Theme 9 - Structures and Phases.
• Theme 10 - Funding and Governance.

Regular published interim reports (example)
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The Primary Review

• What will happen to the findings?
• What action will be taken?
• Who is listening?

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Why does the curriculum have to change?

• 4 key drivers
• Impact of technology
• New understanding about learning
• Globalisation
• Personalisation
• OVERVIEW THE GREAT DEBATE
• Worth watching!!
• http//www.teachers.tv/video/17060

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http//www.dcsf.gov.uk/primarycurriculumreview/ind
ex.shtml
The remit for the Primary Curriculum Review has
five core aspects

• Curriculum design and content - creating a broad
  and balanced, inclusive curriculum that has the
  flexibility to meet the strengths and needs of
  every pupil.
• Reading, writing and numeracy enabling schools
  to strengthen their focus on reading, writing and
  mathematics.
• Modern foreign languages the Review will
  consider how best to introduce languages at Key
  Stage 2.
• Personal development considering how to create
  a simple, coherent framework for the personal
  skills that children need to develop during their
  primary years.
• Transition and progression facilitating smooth
  progression from EYFS to primary, and through
  into secondary school.

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Primary Curriculum Review

• April 2008 QCA Consultative
• Interim report due in October 08
• Consultation 2009
• 2011 First teaching (on-line
• curriculum)

http//www.qca.org.uk/libraryAssets/media/Independ
ent_Review_of_the_Primary_Curriculum_slide_set_Jul
y_08(1).pdf
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Hmmmmm

• Relationship to assessment?
• Making Good Progress pilot
• 450 schools trialling new ways to assess, report
  and
• Stimulate progress at KS2 and KS3
• AFL Strategy Further invested 150 million over
  the
• next three years for continuing professional
  development
• for teachers in assessment for learning.
• APP
• Single level tests? http//www.naa.org.uk/naa_1621
  6.aspx

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Implications for initial teacher education?

• Subject knowledge
• Core subjects v broad and balanced curriculum
• Whole child development
• Assessment practices
• Increased professionalisation (M level demands)
• OFSTED Our new generation of teachers needs
• to be prepared for teaching in an increasingly
  ethnically and
• socially diverse society, with growing reliance
  on technology as a
• means of communication and learning.
• What do beginning teachers really
  need to know?
• Who do we need to
  recruit?
• 
  Who do we need to work with?