Building Our Curriculum

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Building Our Curriculum

• Louise Turnbull
• Head Teacher
• Livingston Village Primary School

All for the children, for all of the children!
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• Year plan to support planning of learning across
  the 4 aspects
• Interdisciplinary learning
• Curriculum areas and subjects
• Personal achievement
• Ethos and life of the school

• Staff working together to agree key features of
  effective planning
• Long term
• Medium term
• Short term

• Monitoring and tracking Experiences and Outcomes
  to ensure breadth and depth of learning and
  entitlement to Broad General Education.
• BGE tracking systems
• Medium term planning meetings between class
  teacher and member of senior leadership team.

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• Developing learning and teaching pedagogy in
  tandem with the curriculum
• Improving writing alongside formative assessment
• Improving mathematics and numeracy alongside
  active learning approaches
• Improving reading alongside target setting and
  Higher Order Thinking
• Skills for life, work and learning alongside
  transferring learning and parental involvement

• Improvements based on robust self-evaluation
• Monitoring progress regularly
• Develop practice then create policy

• High Level 3 year Curriculum Plan
• Cloud 10 planer
• Developed with all staff

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Good practice discussions
Collaborative enquiry
Developing shared understanding of curricular
development and learning and teaching pedagogy.
Identifying key features of effective learning
Distributive Leadership
Evaluating impact of work
Sharing practice
Professional Dialogue which supports and
challenges learning
Assessment and moderation within and across
cluster
CPD focussed on delivering priorities
Professional Learning Communities
Shared professional reading
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• Individual self-evaluation
• Daily reflections as part of short term planning
• Individual self-evaluation and target setting
  linked to SIP priorities
• Strategic evaluation of impact of medium term
  plan.
• Preparation for PRD

• IMPACT ON LEARNING
• What impact have we had?
• How do we know?

• Collective self-evaluation
• Regular review of IMPACT of SIP priorities on
  pupil learning
• Development of shared vision and values and next
  steps
• 3 year plan
• Audit against QIs
• VSE

• Involvement of pupils, parents, staff and
  partnerships
• Questionnaires
• Focus groups
• Pupil Council/Parent Council
• Regular dialogue

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Clear Rationale based on shared vision and
values, principles and practices papers and
design principles.
Skills based to enable children to develop and
build on existing skills, learn new skills and
apply these into new contexts.
Develop planning formats to support thinking,
target setting
Flexible to enable children to progress learning
at different rates non-linear.
Monitoring and tracking progress with and across
EOs
Support planning to ensure children are receiving
their entitlements and Broad General Education
Ensure progression with a level as well as across
a line of development.
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• Balance of support and challenge
• Professional dialogue and reflection on learning
• Individual feedback on planning, practice and
  curriculum

Developing shared understanding of high quality
learning and teaching staff generation of
criteria
Monitoring and tracking attainment and achievement
Focus on IMPACT on pupil learning
Evaluating pupil learning focus groups and
discussion of work/ learning/targets
Collective feedback of whole school strengths and
areas for development.
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