1. Primary National Curriculum 2014
Changes to be aware of?

2. English What’s out? Speaking & Listening no longer appears as a strand
Drama is not mentioned
No mention of ICT
No method for teaching reading other than phonics (i.e. context., etc.)
What’s in?
Year-by-year objectives (34 pages)
Required spelling & grammar objectives & wordlists (16pp)
Priority for phonics in both key stages
Focus on reading for pleasure
Reciting poetry
Priority on transcription

3. English – an example Y5/6 page

4. English – Year 3/4 wordlists

5. English – Grammar objectives

6. Mathematics What’s out? Ma1 – Using & Applying Mathematical reasoning
Communicating maths
Data handling in Y1
Use of ICT
Use of calculators except in exceptional cases in upper KS2
What’s in?
Yearly objectives (40 pages)
Tables to 12x12 by end of Y4
Standard written methods
Focus on fractions
Y5 convert decimalfraction
Telling time in Y2; using Roman numerals in Y3
Area of triangles & parallelograms in Y6

7. Mathematics – what’s when?
Multiplication tables:
Y2: 2, 5 & 10 times tables Y4: all tables up to 12x12
Y3: 3, 4 & 8 times tables
Standard written methods:
Y3: Column addition and subtraction Y5: Short division
Y4: Standard column multiplication Y6: Long division
Fractions
Y1: Introduce ¼ and ½ Y4: Add + Subtract fractions
Y2: ¾ and 1/3. Find ½ of a number Y5: Use mixed numbers
Y3: Add and order simple fractions Y6: Add & Multiply fractions
Algebra
Y6: Simple formulae, finding missing numbers, etc.

8. Science
What’s out?
Much less content at KS1: No mention of medicines, electricity, light & dark, or material changes caused by temperatures
No forces before Y6 (except looking at simple magnets work)
What’s in?
Yearly objectives (34 pages)
Broadly similar to the old QCA units in a slightly different order
Continued emphasis on investigation across all areas
Evolution in Y4 & Y6
Classification into kingdoms at Y6

9. Art What’s out? Evaluating work Requirement to collaborate What’s in?
A single page curriculum for KS1-2 combined:
Use a range of materials, including sketchbooks in KS2
Develop techniques
Learn about the great artists

10. ICT  Computing What’s out? The name ICT
Very little mention of presenting ideas or information
No mention of cross-curricular use of ICT
What’s in?
Changes to “Computing”
Largely based around the old Control elements, e.g. In KS1: “understand what algorithms are, how they are implemented as programs on digital devices, and that programs execute by following a sequence of instructions”
E-safety mentioned at every Key Stage

11. Design & Technology What’s out? No planning / generating ideas at KS1
No mechanisms at KS1
No mention of working from a brief at KS2
No use of ICT required
What’s in?
Healthy cooking to be covered at every Key Stage (with regard to available cooking facilities)
Development of repair & maintenance skills (!)
Understanding of key turning points in history, e.g. Industrial Revolution

12. Geography What’s out? No investigative questioning
No KS1 comparison with other UK locations
No mention of environmental sustainability
No African, Asia or Australasian geography
What’s in?
Factual knowledge, e.g. continents & oceans at KS1
UK focus at KS1, plus one non-European comparison
Europe & the Americas covered at KS2
Identification of rivers, mountains, etc. in UK
OS four-figure grid references

13. History What’s out? Personal timeline history
Historical enquiry skills
Britain since 1930s
Victorians
Aztecs, Incas, etc.
Diversity in the UK & the world
What’s in?
KS1: Concepts of monarchy, parliament, civilisation, democracy and war & peace
KS2: Strictly chronological progression through history of Britain from early Britons to Glorious Revolution (1688)
Requirement to teach Ancient Rome & Greece

14. Just work your way through....
Early Britons and settlers, including:
the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages
Celtic culture and patterns of settlement
Roman conquest and rule, including:
Caesar, Augustus, and Claudius
Britain as part of the Roman Empire
the decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire
Anglo-Saxon and Viking settlement, including:
the Heptarchy
the spread of Christianity
key developments in the reigns of Alfred, Athelstan, Cnut and Edward the Confessor
Norman Conquest and Norman rule, including:
the Domesday Book
feudalism
Norman culture
the Crusades
Plantagenet rule in the 12th and 13th centuries, including:
key developments in the reign of Henry II, including the murder of Thomas Becket
Magna Carta
de Montfort's Parliament
Relations between England, Wales, Scotland and France, including:
William Wallace
Robert the Bruce
Llywelyn and Dafydd ap Gruffydd
the Hundred Years War
Life in 14th-century England, including:
Chivalry
the Black Death
the Peasants’ Revolt

15. ... all of this in four years!
The later Middle Ages and the early modern period, including:
Chaucer and the revival of learning
Wycliffe’s Bible
Caxton and the printing press
the Wars of the Roses
Warwick the Kingmaker
The Tudor period, including:
religious strife and Reformation
the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary
Elizabeth I's reign and English expansion, including:
colonisation of the New World
plantation of Ireland
conflict with Spain
The Renaissance in England, including:
the lives and works of individuals such as Shakespeare and Marlowe
The Stuart period, including:
the Union of the Crowns
King versus Parliament
Cromwell's commonwealth, the Levellers and the Diggers
the restoration of the monarchy
the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London
Samuel Pepys and the establishment of the Royal Navy
the Glorious Revolution, constitutional monarchy and the Union of the Parliaments.

16. Foreign Languages What’s out? Freedom to select any language
Focus on inter-cultural understanding
Links to English literacy
What’s in?
Statutory foreign languages at Key Stage 2, selected from: French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Spanish, Latin or Ancient Greek
Teaching should focus on making progress in 1 language
Includes a balance of all four skills and a focus on developing accurate pronunciation

17. Music
What’s out?
Description of ‘elements’ (now called inter-related dimensions!)
No mention of collaboration at KS1
No requirement to respond to listening
What’s in?
A single page curriculum for KS1-2, largely focussed on singing & playing instruments
Use of staff and other forms of notation in KS2
Develop an understanding of history of music at KS2

18. Physical Education What’s out? No evaluation at KS1
No mention of health & fitness
No specific games at KS1
What’s in?
A focus on competitive games
KS2 Swimming: “perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations”

19. What you can do...
Meet with the cluster coordinators and review new Curriculum.
Reflect on changes and how this will impact on Ankermoor’s curriculum