Case Study - Introducing a Key Skills Curriculum
In a previous role as a Key Stage Leader, I was responsible for leading Year One and Two. As a team, we quickly built a rapport with each other and key stage meetings were always productive, involving a mixture of sharing good practice and thinking ahead to what we would like to do better. After working with the existing curriculum for a year, I was very keen in my second year to make some changes. The existing curriculum was loosely based on the old national curriculum but was mainly generated from past planning documents. There was no continuity between Year One and Year Two and it appeared that the design was based on what previous teachers enjoyed teaching or found easy to teach. There was a lack of progression in skills for the children to develop, which made it difficult to consolidate previous learning and build on it. Review I began by scrutinising the current curriculum in more depth. I informally interviewed children, teachers and some parents and looked at various c...