Thank you.
And an opportunity to find what you're looking for.
Hello Curriculum Thinkers,
Chances are this is the last update you’ll read before you head off for a well deserved holiday.
It’s been a pleasure working with so many collaborative schools and colleagues this year.
We want to take this opportunity to say a massive thank you.
And give you a heads up about something we’re working on to help you get the most out of the community.
Have a lovely Summer holiday. See you in September!
New role or changes in September?
If you’re moving onwards and upwards in September (congrats 🎉) and you don’t want to lose the ability to:
🔬 discover where great curriculum work’s happening based on data
💡learn from excellent curriculum thinking
📎 download and adapt 1650+ subject specific and whole school curriculum resources
🤝 ask the We Are In Beta team to help you find what you need whenever you need it…
New role(s) in September? Here’s how to update your email and profile & what to do in 4 scenarios for your team.
Do any of these apply to you?
1. You’re moving to a new school that’s already a member of Curriculum Thinkers
- ask your new Deputy/Assistant Head in charge of curriculum to send Fiona Flint - our Head of School Memberships - an email to fiona@weareinbeta.com and she can get you set up.
2. You’re moving to a new school next year that’s not a member of Curriculum Thinkers
- ask them ‘why not?!’ and send them this email so they can request a free trial here.
3. You’re in charge of curriculum at your school and you’ve got new recruits joining your team
- send Fiona Flint - our Head of School Memberships - an email to fiona@weareinbeta.com and she can get accounts updated.
4. You’re in charge of curriculum at your school and you want us to train your team on how to use the community
Early September’s slots are in short supply, so best to book early.
What curriculum related policies and resources do you want us to research?
"Writing policies is fun!" Said no one ever!
They're vital but a real headache. Solved often by Googling or visiting your friend's school website.
We've been working to help out. So far the We Are In Beta research team have researched:
Curriculum vision statements (subscription required)
This summer, to help you get lots of insight and save loads of time, we have a team of researchers doing more of these kinds of deep dives for you.
What policies or resources are you working on that we can find from successful schools and analyse for you?
Here are some requests we've received so far.
Assessment policy
Teaching and learning policy, frameworks and handbooks
Marking and feedback policy
Reading policy
Literacy policy
Numeracy policy
SEND across the curriculum policy
EAL across the curriculum policy
CIAG policy
PSHE / RSE policy
Curricula in specific subjects
If you’re working on any of these and want us to help you find examples from other successful schools…
Policies with the most votes will get our attention over the Summer.
📚🧠 Curriculum Thinking Week Summer 2023 - thank you!
Last week your fellow members very generously shared 150+ talks, 520 resources across 20 subject inside CurriculumThinking Week Summer 2023.
Talks and resources are now only available to speakers, their sponsors and members of the Curriculum Thinkers Community - if that’s you, you should have received an email confirming we’ve upgraded your membership this week.
If you’re neither a speaker nor a member, and you want some more time to access the learning inside, let us know here - we know how busy last week was.
Huge thank you to the 500+ of you who came, all the speakers who joined the line up, the colleagues who nominated them and the SLT sponsors who supported them.🙏
The scale of this kind of school to school learning would not be possible without you.
🙏 Thanks for making the Curriculum Thinkers Community so special this year.
The Curriculum Thinkers Community would not exist, or be possible without the generosity of your fellow members sharing their work and wisdom.
We want to say a massive thank you! Especially to the following:
🗣 Speakers at CTW Summer 2023:
Jonathan Radcliffe, Carleen Masson & Ellie Clark (Anthem Trust)
Simon Wallace & Ammar Khan (Barnhill Community High School)
Chris Batt, Sue Lutz & Mohsin Gulsher (Beaumont School)
Dave Tushingham (Blaise High School)
Helen Warsop & Laura Wilson (Blessed Robert Sutton Catholic Voluntary Academy)
David Milligan, Hollie Winrow & Leanne Sigsworth (Blessed Thomas Holford Catholic College)
Helen Howell (Blue Coat)
Georgina Millard & Mark Potter (Brakenhale)
Victoria Mandizha & Wendy Moore (Brighton Hill Community School)
Will Grove (Broadwater School)
Glyn Brown, Steve Barnes & Allan Green (Cantell School)
Nicola Quick & Samir Richards (Challney High School for Boys / Chiltern Learning Trust)
Sheba George (Challney High School for Girls)
Flora Burt & Kerry Ward (Chiltern Learning Trust)
Hannah Nonnenmacher (Chiswick School)
Juliette Biddle-Mogg (Cranmer Education Trust)
Amelia Kyriakides & Freya Ralph (Didcot Girls' School)
Mark Schvetz (Dorothy Stringer School)
Adam Walton (Dover Grammar School for Girls)
James Butler (Duke's Secondary School, NCEA Trust)
Lisa Butcher (Fitzharrys School)
Leah Turvey & Bekki Smith (Five Acres High School)
Laura Best, Hayley Muse & Sarah Bowen (Glenmoor and Winton Academies)
Mason Davies (Gloucester Academy)
Dom Bell (Greenshaw High School)
George Duoblys & Rhiannon Rainbow (Greenshaw Learning Trust)
Julia Quick & Ben Mapp (Harris Academy Chafford Hundred)
Aimee Churchill, Joanne Bryce, Jenny d'Arcy & Eve Giwa-Osagie (Harris Academy Greenwich)
Nicola Walker (Harris Academy Ockendon)
Tori Blair & Siobhan Nejman (Harrow Way Community School)
Dena Eden & Richard Patterson (Inspiration Trust)
Samantha Drewett (John Mason School)
Lori Gleeson, Laura Ceney & Lewis Glaze (John Taylor Free School)
Lianne Roberts & Natasha Bermejo (King's Academy Binfield)
Mary Morris (King's Academy Prospect)
Gemma McCarthy & Nina Pearson (Landau Forte Academy Amington)
Pete Jones & Emilio Chain Lopez (Les Quennevais School)
Alex Reed, Lisa Clarke & Dina Suthar (Levenshulme High School)
Susan Farrimond (Little Lever School)
Melissa Barron & Jon Andrews (Manor School)
Laura Rossiter (Melksham Oak Community School)
Chloe Young (Noel Baker Academy)
Jennifer Ryrie (Northampton Academy)
Hannah Rickaby, William Kneeshaw, Emma De Vito & Helen Kennedy (Northampton School for Boys)
Katie Johnson (Orchard Park High School)
Maurice Dixon, Fay Cooper, Nick Rogers & Harry Birch (Oxford Spires Academy)
Amy Talbot & Clare Price (Poltair School)
Katherine Hawthorne & Luke Lambert (Q3 Academy Langley)
Michelle Gibson (Sewell Park Academy)
James Everett & Luke Kavanagh (Sir Isaac Newton Sixth Form)
Wonu Adedoyin-Salau & Kevin Imrith (St Bonaventure's School)
Rebecca Baxendale, Mackenzie Robinson-Hunt, William Harvey, Skylar Hormbrey, Rob King & Kate Poulton (St Mark's Academy)
Matt Hallam & Abby Camilleri (St. Anne's CofE Academy Middleton)
Matt Hussey (Stoke Damerel Community College)
Emma Bezer (The Brian Clarke CofE Academy (Cranmer Education Trust)
Jazz Bansal-Momi, Peter Corkish & Kristy Keller (The Dorcan Academy)
Hattie Stromberg, Clare Simutis, Marthe Broadhurst & Rachel Lewin (The Five Islands Academy)
Eve Tomlinson & Louise Marshall (The Oxford Academy)
Modesto Simone & Joe Collins (The Thomas Aveling School)
Tim Whiteman (Thorpe St Andrew School and Sixth Form)
Rachael Coles, Amanda Britton, Ben Bishop & Jessica Abercrombie (Twynham School)
Richard Singer, Laura Wallett, Rachel Hadley, Rachel Fellows & Jemma Brereton (Tytherington School)
Rachel Hare (Walton Academy)
Ellie Steele (Wheatley Park School)
Joe Thornham & Andrew Richardson Medd (Wolfreton School & Sixth Form)
Ed Durbin (Yate Academy).
🌐 Subject Group Leaders
Thank you to all the subject leaders who helped lead our private groups for subject leaders this year:
Chanel McPherson-George (Bedford Free School); Will Grove (Broadwater School); Ben Johnson (Brooke Weston Trust); Steph Nicholls (Cleeve School); Freya Ralph (Didcot Girls' School); Adam Walton (Dover Grammar School for Girls); Nathan Cardwell (Fulham Cross Girls' School and Language College); Sophie Smith (George Eliot Academy); Paula Gwilliam (Haberdashers' Abraham Darby); Dawn Allen (Hodge Hill College); Gemma Jones & Laura Pollitt (John Taylor Free School); Harvey Owen (King's Academy Binfield); Dan Ferguson (Les Quennevais School); Melissa Barron (Manor School Raunds); Maddy Opstad & Amy Mills (NCEA Duke's Secondary School); Chloe Young (Noel-Baker Academy); Vikki Woodley (Princes Risborough School); Anthi Glymidou (St Mark's Church of England Academy); Tracy Wilhelmy (The Brakenhale School); Dan Tanner (The Dorcan Academy); Hannah Butler & Tegs Downer (The Oxford Academy); Katie Clifton Rabone (Wheatley Park School).
📆 Meet up hosts
Thank you to everyone hosted a subject leader meet up this year:
Harvey Owen (King's Academy Binfield); Dan Ferguson (Les Quennevais School); Melissa Barron (Manor School Raunds); Maddy Opstad & Amy Mills (NCEA Duke's Secondary School); Dan Tanner (The Dorcan Academy); Katie Clifton Rabone (Wheatley Park School); Chanel McPherson-George (Bedford Free School); Will Grove (Broadwater School); Freya Ralph (Didcot Girls' School); Adam Walton (Dover Grammar School for Girls); Nathan Cardwell (Fulham Cross Girls' School and Language College); Paula Gwilliam (Haberdashers' Abraham Darby); Dawn Allen (Hodge Hill College); Lewis Glaze & Laura Pollitt (John Taylor Free School); Tracy Wilhelmy (The Brakenhale School); Dena Eden (Inspiration Trust); Gemma Harris (Worle Community School); Zoe Cruise (Da Vinci Academy); Vikki Woodley (Princes Risborough School); Chelsea Phillips (Broadwater School); Lyndsey Brookbanks (Copleston High School); Peter Corkish (The Dorcan Academy); Helen Howell (The Blue Coat CofE School); Rachael Cook & Ben Bishop (Twynham School); Wonu Adedoyin-Salau & Emer Murphy (St Bonaventure's RC School); Victoria Mandizha (Brighton Hill Community School); George Duoblys (Greenshaw Learning Trust); Sue Lutz (Beaumont School); Helen Warsop (Blessed Robert Sutton Catholic Academy); Rachael Willerton (Churchdown School).
👨🏫 Senior leaders
SLT in our member schools, who believe in the power of collaboration and invest in premium memberships, we would not exist with you. Thank you all.
Have a lovely Summer holiday. See you in September!
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