Curriculum roundup 2019

Blogs

General

• Is your curriculum Ofsted ready? – The Optimus blog
• Ofsted’s spring conferences Sean Harford, National Director, Education
• What happens when you outsource the curriculum to the exam syllabus Daisy Christodoulou
• Pupil Selection and Curriculum Content Daisy Christodoulou

Leadership

• Series on Curriculum Leadership THE DIGNITY OF THE THING Christine Counsell’s blog

‘Knowledge rich’ curriculum

• What is a knowledge-rich curriculum? Principle and Practice – Tom Sherrington
• A Rich Curriculum – Debra Kidd
• WHAT’S ALL THE FUSS ABOUT A KNOWLEDGE-RICH CURRICULUM? PART ONE – Clare Sealy
• Who decides what knowledge should be taught? John Blake (part of a series from Ark)

Curriculum planning & review

• My plan to reform our curriculum –  Rosalind Walker
• Curriculum Building: Every step matters; know your role; make it count. e.g. Writing YR to Y11. Tom Sherrington
• 10 Steps for Reviewing Your KS3 Curriculum Tom Sherrington
• IN PRAISE OF A PROSAIC CURRICULUM – Clare Sealy
• The 10 features of highly effective curriculum planning: A guest blog (published by Adam Robbins)
• Designing a new curriculum – blog 1 of 3 in my curriculum series (Primary)
• (Re)thinking and (Re)writing Your Curriculum Policy Stephen Tierney
• Using Spaced Practice in Inform Curriculum Design Fran Haynes
• Thinking About Curriculum
• SKILLS VERSUS KNOWLEDGE: A CURRICULUM DEBATE THAT MATTERS – AND ONE WHICH WE NEED TO REJECT Tim Oates

Subjects

RE – Why Religious Education is a fundamental part of a broad education -Isaac Howarth

Science- Teaching and Learning is Dead – Adam Boxer

Art –Developing a Knowledge-Rich Art Curriculum Part 1: The ‘Why?’ – David Morel, PTE

Art – Curriculum conversations: art

History – Some notes on KS3 planning

English – Why a thematic curriculum is brilliant for Key Stage 3 English (and why it’s also great for your GCSE students too) Anthony Cokerill

Books/Magazines

The Curriculum – Gallimaufry to coherence – Mary Myatt

Chartered College of Teaching – Issue 6 – Broad and Balanced curriculum 

Videos

• Ofsted’s curriculum research
• Data in the context of the curriculum

• Ofsted Curriculum Workshop – 7 Parts

Other resources

• HMCI’s commentary: recent primary and secondary curriculum research
• Ofsted Slide Share – Curriculum: intent, implementation and impact. Development work for the new inspection framework