THE NEW NATIONAL CURRICULUM FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS Cluster Meeting 10 th October 2013 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 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 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? 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… 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’. 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? Wandsworth Children's Services

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

Resourcing the Curriculum

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

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.

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

What is available outside?  Learning Resources Service   Wandsworth Public Library Service  Wandsworth Museum  Work and Play Scrapstore

Online Sources  Power of Reading website  Child Education  TES Website

Power of Reading   Detailed lesson plans for books from Reception to Year 6  Creative and dynamic teaching ideas  Tried and tested  Examples of good practice  Subscription service

Child/Nursery Education   Over 8,000 downloadable resources  Posters, worksheets, games  Teacher submissions and reviews  Regular updates  Very cheap subscription

Times Educational Supplement   Over 80,000 free resources  Uploaded and reviewed by teachers

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

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. 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) DfE going 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. 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 4 th 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 ed to you directly. Would development groups for PSHE and RE also be useful? Wandsworth Children's Services

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

Keeping updated Wikispace Wandsworth Children's Services