1. Elm Hall Primary Curriculum 2014 – presentation to primary heads June 2014 Part 1 of 2

2. An opportunity to work together to change thinking …… Freedom for staff team to make their own choices and judgements Put in place structures that create rich contexts for learning Provide open-ended curriculum experiences Monitoring the quality of learning not the quality of teaching Enabling and supporting and facilitate learning Children contribute to planning Encouraging risk taking Making suggestions Shared involvement Helping bring ideas to fruition Feeding in ideas and interesting materials Asking questions Challenging

3. 1. Tweak existing curriculum 2. Identify the key gaps and key changes of statutory elements that are not covered in current curriculum. 3. Where can existing topics be adapted to meet NC requirements?

4. The new National Curriculum Framework is organized around subjects NC Framework stresses that "schools are free to choose how they organize their school day". Audit Spoken language, vocabulary development, literacy and mathematic that are included across the curriculum. knowledge and skills and content where one subject cross over with others-Cross curricular some aspects will need discrete attention throughout the process of change.

5. Editable jigsaw http://michaelt1979.wordpress.com/2014/06/15/what-should-the- primary-curriculum-really-look-like/E

6. Compare what’s in What’ out

10. Time line of implementation Merging curriculums Cross curricular opportunities topic/project

13. “The National Curriculum for mathematics aims to ensure that all pupils: -Become fluent in the fundamentals of mathematics. -Reason mathematically by following a line of enquiry, conjecturing relationships and generalisations, and developing an argument … using mathematical language. - Can solve problems by applying their mathematics to a variety of routine and non-routine problems with increasing sophistication.” The new National Curriculum for mathematics is organized on a year-by-year basis, although schools are only required to cover the programmes of study by the end of each key stage The progress may vary from year to year with different cohorts, and will be revised in the light of the actual learning that takes place.