Designing a new curriculum

DESIGNING A NEW

CURRICULUM

Mayfield Primary School

Parents/carersSeptember 2014

DESIGNING A NEW CURRICULUMDfE 2013

“The new national curriculum will set out only the essential knowledge that all children should acquire, and give schools and teachers more freedom to decide how to teach this most effectively and to design a wider school curriculum that best meets the needs of their pupils”

DESIGNING A NEW CURRICULUMThe national pictureNew national requirements / curriculum statutory from September

2014 for Y1-Y6 Core subjects - English, maths and science for 2 and Y6 from

September 2015No level descriptors from Sept 2014, replaced with end of key

stage expectations so we won’t have levels and sub levelsAssessment will include more formal testing for EYFS, Y2 and Y6

have an element of being secondary ready – more likely to be scale score which won’t relate to a level – still waiting for details

Current Y5 will be the first year group to be tested under the new arrangements

DESIGNING A NEW CURRICULUM

Our visionMayfield is a place where Everyone is welcome Our diversity enriches us all

We will do our best for ourselves and for each other

Our mission is to provide an environment in which all children can excel

Our aim is by 2015, is to be securely good with many outstanding aspects by our own and Ofsted measures


So we looked to develop a curriculum which

aims to meet and exceed the National Curriculum

at the same time as developing the curriculum we were mindful of measuring and tracking progress


How Why?Why?

How?

What?


The end in mind?


Basic learning At any ageLabelling/listing/memory re-call

Advanced learning Compare and contrastExplain cause and effect

Deep learning Theories, ideas, questions

CHANGES TO THE MATHS CURRICULUM: YEAR 1 What’s gone? Data handling/Statistics is removed from Y1 No specific requirement to describe patterns No specific requirements to describe ways of solving problems or

explain choices

What’s been added? Counting & writing numerals to 100 Write numbers in words up to 20 Number bonds secured to 20 Use of vocabulary such as equal, more than, less than, fewer, etc.

CHANGES TO THE MATHS CURRICULUM: YEAR 6 Detail of problem-solving processes no longer explicit Divisibility tests Calculator skills move to KS3 PoS Rotation moves to KS3 Probability moves to KS3 Median/Mode/Range no longer required

Compare and ordering fractions greater than 1 Long division 4 operations with fractions Calculate decimal equivalent of fractions Understand & use order of operations Plot points in all 4 quadrants Convert between miles and kilometres Name radius/diameter and know relationship Use formulae for area/volume of shapes Calculate area of triangles & parallelograms Calculate volume of 3-d shapes Use letters to represent unknowns (algebra) Generate and describe linear sequences Find solutions to unknowns in problems

CHANGES TO THE ENGLISH CURRICULUM: Y1 Requirement to write non-narrative texts Chronological & non-chronological texts Typing skills

Reading of phonically-suitable texts Reading words with contractions Reading words with regular endings Making inferences from texts Learning and reciting poetry Re-reading own writing to check for sense Using capital letters for proper nouns Name the letters of the alphabet Spell the names of the days of the week Adopt a suitable writing position Form capital letters and digits 0-9 Practise handwriting letter ‘families’

CHANGES TO THE ENGLISH CURRICULUM: Y5 Specific mention of working in groups Specific mention of dramatic skills Creating multi-layered texts

Preparing poetry for performance Learning poems by heart Formal presentations about reading Précising long passages of writing Greatly detailed grammar specifics

HISTORY

Reduced emphasis on sources & methodology Relatively little change at KS1, with slight increase in

national focus Reduced emphasis on diversity & culture Significant changes in KS2 breadth of study:

Victorians/Britain since 1930 & Tudors removed Stone age added Romans, Anglo-Saxons & Vikings all required Slightly changes to ancient civilisation options A non-European study must be included One period of study that stretches past 1066


So what are Ofsted after?Thirst for knowledge and love of learningOpportunities for academic, technical and sporting excellencePositive impact on all pupils behaviour


Asked the children

DESIGNING A NEW CURRICULUMWe have been working on the curriculum since last January

Subject leaders have been key in giving an overview of their subject in curriculum meetings

Teachers then started to design a skills based curriculum and choose topics based on the skills identified

Now we have a first draft of the long term overview which class

teachers are using for the curriculum this year

WHAT DRIVES OUR CURRICULUM?Diversity

Enquiry and Challenge

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