The new National Curriculum for primary schools

1. Wandsworth Children's Services The new National Curriculum for primary schools Cluster Meeting 10th October 2013

2. Wandsworth Children's Services Agenda • Network sharing of priorities, initial ideas and action plans • Setting cluster priorities • Facilitating cross school visits • Assessment; exploring assessment for the new programmes of study • Learning resources library – how the LRC can support the new curriculum • Updates on foundation subject development groups • Dates for Spring and Summer term meetings

3. Wandsworth Children's Services Aims of the cluster groups To meet regularly to: • Share experiences of implementing the new National Curriculum • To address common priorities in more detail • To receive national updates • To receive subject specific updates from development groups • To provide the forum for sharing curriculum and planning resources

4. Wandsworth Children's Services Where are you up to? Discuss • What, if anything, have you been able to do since the launch? • What are your early plans? • What have you identified as your key priorities? • Do you have priorities in common?

5. Wandsworth Children's Services Facilitating cross school visits Considering your early thoughts… • Are there any particular features of a curriculum that you would like to see in action? • Are there any particular features of your curriculum that you would like to offer? Chesterton can offer… Chesterton would like to meet (WLTM) a school where…

6. Wandsworth Children's Services New attainment targets The same for every subject: ‘By the end of each key stage, pupils are expected to know, apply and understand the matters, skills and processes specified in the relevant programme of study’.

7. Wandsworth Children's Services Exploring assessment • Look at the PoS for English, mathematics or science for year 4. • Putting yourself in the shoes of the year 4 teacher think through the process of using the PoS like APP • Would it be possible to ‘level’ a child’s work as being low, securely or high within the year group? • What is positive about this approach? • What are the barriers to approaching assessment in this way? • Are there any other approaches that may be useful to explore?

8. Wandsworth Children's Services Facilitating cross school visits part 2 • Read the WLTMs • Could you offer a visit to show this practice?

9. Resourcing the Curriculum

10. Planning Ahead • What do we have already in school? • What can we source from elsewhere? • What is not available?

11. Creative – but cautious • Not every area of the new curriculum has existing resources. • Publishers may be cautious. • Always check before committing to particular studies of countries, famous people and generic topics. • There isn’t always a suitable fiction text to accompany a topic.

12. What do we have in school? • Resources audit • Classrooms, cupboards, stockrooms • School Library • Online subscriptions

13. What is available outside? • Learning Resources Service • https://vimeo.com/76341902 • Wandsworth Public Library Service • Wandsworth Museum • Work and Play Scrapstore

14. Online Sources • Power of Reading website • Child Education • TES Website

15. Power of Reading • www.clpe.co.uk • Detailed lesson plans for books from Reception to Year 6 • Creative and dynamic teaching ideas • Tried and tested • Examples of good practice • Subscription service

16. Child/Nursery Education • www.scholastic.co.uk • Over 8,000 downloadable resources • Posters, worksheets, games • Teacher submissions and reviews • Regular e-mail updates • Very cheap subscription

17. Times Educational Supplement • www.tes.co.uk • Over 80,000 free resources • Uploaded and reviewed by teachers

18. Pass it around! • Share with colleagues within school and outside • Wikipage • LRS online catalogue • Bulletin

19. Wandsworth Children's Services English – Mathematics – Science - Computing • Programmes for subject leaders and class teachers are now underway. • Let us know if teachers are not getting places as courses fill up. We can repeat.

20. Wandsworth Children's Services Curriculum Updates • Government investments: NCETM, STEM (primary science grouped by topic). • £2m for additional master computer teachers • 'Expert groups' looking at challenges for ITE eg computing and geography • Subject associations and publishers developing new materials (eg The Historical Association) • DfEgoing where teachers go: TESonline, Guardian, Teachit, SLT chat, through media channels .... • Ofsted monitoring of new curriculum – will check how schools broadly preparing for curriculum as part of the leadership and management judgement. • Priority focus on what schools are achieving, they will not police the match between curriculum and delivery.

21. Wandsworth Children's Services Curriculum Development Groups- Updates • Nick Miller and Peter Freeman will be working with the PE Curriculum Development Group. Guidance from the development groups will be fed into the re-established primary PE network meetings (Termly). The first took place on 4th October . • Domini Stone from Network for Languages London has produced a primary languages questionnaire which will inform her work with the development group. Please complete today and leave with Davina/ Elizabeth. • Dates for the history and P.E. development group will be released over the next week. Details will be put up onto the wikispace and emailed to you directly. • Would development groups for PSHE and RE also be useful?

22. Wandsworth Children's Services Timetable of changes Rising Stars have created a useful table documenting the implementation timeline of the National Curriculum http://www.risingstars-uk.com/uploads/publications/1204.Pdf

23. Wandsworth Children's Services Keeping updated • Email • Wikispace http://primarynationalcurriculum2014.wikispaces.com/ • Twitter @CurriculumWatch