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2. Changes to Curriculum and Assessment at Dr Thomlinson’s
September 2015

3. The National Curriculum defines the programmes of study for key subjects in maintained/state primary and secondary schools in England. Fundamentally, it sets out what your child is supposed to learn and when.
A new version was introduced in September The current Government's view was that the old curriculum wasn't sufficiently challenging.
Now, expectations are considerably higher for any given year group.
The new curriculum is not in alignment with the old National Curriculum levels

4. Life After Levels
The Department for Education removed the assessment system of National Curriculum levels in September 2014.
Schools are expected to have in place approaches to formative assessment that support pupil attainment and progression.
It suggested that pupil progress and achievement should be communicated in terms of descriptive profiles, rather than numerical summaries.

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‘Whatever scale we use, it has to have some underlying meaning.’

6. Developing Expected Mastering Foundation Breakthrough Elementary
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Foundation
Breakthrough
Elementary
Intermediate
Higher
Advanced

7. What is our rationale for introducing this new system?
Relates to the new National Curriculum
Encourages objective led target setting
Students much more aware and involved with their own learning and progression
More focus on developing deeper knowledge and skills – ‘mastery’

8. New Literacy Curriculum KS2
Writing:
Greatly increased expectations in grammar and punctuation;
Children have to identify and label complex grammatical concepts, punctuation and spelling rules;
Expectation that children expertly use and apply the grammar and punctuation concepts in independent writing to create specific effects;
Reading:
Read for pleasure;
Word reading: pupils applying their knowledge to understand the meaning of new words;
Learning of classic & modern poetry (including reciting poetry) introduced.
Spelling:
Statutory lists of words to be learnt in Years 3 - 6;
Specific spelling rules to be taught.

9. New Maths Curriculum KS2

10. Examples of raised expectations…

12. Changes to KS3 Curriculum
Whilst much of the media coverage about the new curriculum has focused on primary education, our KS3 students have also seen some changes in their secondary education.
These plans have been described by the Department of Education as 'more precise and challenging'. Changes include learning several computer programming languages and more depth and detail in the sciences.

13. How our approach to assessment will change:
The raised expectations mean that children need to have a very secure knowledge of the programme of study for their year group and depth of understanding and application.
End of year expectation is now that children are ‘secure’ in their year group. This is where they need to be at the end of the year. Our students are firstly aiming for ‘Yellow’ on the traffic lights.
We have talked to our students about the changes in expectations.

14. What replaces levels? Developing Expected Mastering
Under the old levels system children who were beyond might have moved into the next level. The DfE now want children who are in the beyond bracket to add more depth and breadth to their knowledge, and to have more opportunities to develop their using and applying skills. They are calling this phase of learning Mastery and Depth. Only exceptional children will move into working towards the end of year expectations from the year above.
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It is really important for parents to understand that the expectations of the new curriculum are much higher at the end of each year group.

15. Objective Led Targets
Discussion with pupils about their learning is most effective when it is based around specific success criteria for the current area of learning.
All of our students are given subject specific targets based around their current learning. These can be found in their Homework Diaries (p13) and in their Assessment Folders.

16. Summative Assessment
In the summer term of 2016, children in Year 2 and Year 6 will be the first to take the new SATs papers. These tests in English and maths will reflect the new national curriculum, and are intended to be more rigorous. There will also be a completely new marking scheme to replace the existing national curriculum levels.
At the end of Year 6, children will sit tests in:
Reading
Maths
Spelling, punctuation and grammar

17. Where previously these tests – and other teacher assessments – were graded in levels (normally numbering between Level 1 and Level 6), from 2016 the tests will be reported as a scaled score, with a score of 100 representing the expected level for each age group.

18. Proposed Reporting
This new format will come with an information sheet to explain the colours, wording and numbering.
It will also explain the heightened expectations of students and how we cannot compare this report to levels.

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