Curriculum This Week: 35 Vision Statements
Benchmark your curriculum vision with top-performing schools.
Oh, hi there.
First issue of ‘Curriculum This Week’ is here.
This is a bulletin for anyone and everyone interested in curriculum.
We’ll be including links to free resources for leaders in a curriculum area role. We’ll also be including some resources and services available exclusively to Curriculum Thinkers Members.
Speaking of which…
Last week, the first-of-its-kind learning experience was born - Secondary Curriculum Thinkers Community - bringing together the thesharpest thinking, highest performing, most rapidly improving secondary curriculum leaders and teams from across the UK.
It’s the place to be for every school leader responsible for a curriculum area.
In our first order of business, we collected 35 curriculum vision statements from schools achieving excellent outcomes for disadvantaged students.
You can benchmark yours against them.
If you're a member of Secondary Curriculum Thinkers Community, download the booklet of with the full 35 here >
For the free version, click here >
Some more of what’s happening this week in curriculum:
Advantage Schools have been hard at work responding to COVID19 and partial school closure. Here’s what their staff has learned about curriculum development during a pandemic (and in general) >
DfE Case Study: Post-covid curriculum sequencing
This summary will help you learn from choices being made in curriculum sequencing by Ark Schools.
Learn from Daniel Opoku from Ark Blake Academy in his Master Class on Curriculum Evaluation, and Nat Nabarro, Mark Jesnick, Holly Welham and Adele Barward-Symmons from Ark John Keats in their Master Class on department co-planning in our Secondary Curriculum Thinkers Community>
Meet our new members:
Joining us this week…
Helen Griffiths - AHT & Leader of Curriculum and Mathematics at Wordsley School. Under her leadership, Maths results have risen from 24.8% A*-C to 5 A*-C of 51%.
Alexandra Havers - AHT at Parrenthorn High School, responsible for School Improvement and Data. Her SLE work in MFL departments demonstrated notable impact. Follow her here.
Katie Thomas - AHT for Teaching and Learning at Harlington Upper School. In 2010, Katie became Head of Faculty and built a successful team who consistently brought about the best English results the school has achieved.
Marcello LoCelso - Mathematics Department Head at Willows High School. His school, being in Wales, is rolling out a new purpose-led curriculum. Lots of challenges ahead.
Spotlight, on you!
If you feel you have anything to contribute to other curriculum leads, anything that might help them make decision, save them time or support them in doing better - We’d love to feature you and your school.
Get in touch here >