Primary Curriculum Design and Delivery
- Glynis Frater - Learning Cultures, UK
March 2023 | 184 pages | Corwin UK
This is a practical guide for school leaders and teachers who have responsibility for designing and delivering a sequenced, knowledge-rich and skills-focused primary curriculum. It considers the elements that underpin a high-quality curriculum and how to create a sequential learning experience for pupils across the primary phase.
It explores a range of practical tools and techniques that can support staff to build a cohesive curriculum where pupils build on their learning from year to year with high-quality outcomes for all learners, whatever their starting point.
Key topics include:
It explores a range of practical tools and techniques that can support staff to build a cohesive curriculum where pupils build on their learning from year to year with high-quality outcomes for all learners, whatever their starting point.
Key topics include:
- How to create a whole school curriculum strategy that builds on prior learning and ensures knowledge and skills across a range of subjects
- Creating opportunities for pupils to make connections across their learning
- How learning is sequenced from early years to the end of Year 6
- Identifying opportunities for pupils to deepen their competence in English, mathematics and across all the foundation subjects
Chapter 1: The Curriculum as the fulcrum for learning and achievement – a review of the past 10 years
Chapter 2: Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact – Creating a whole school synergy
Chapter 3: Creating a high-quality curriculum as a tapestry of learning: skills, concepts and knowledge
Chapter 4: Skills for learning: weaving literacy, numeracy and thinking skills across the curriculum
Chapter 5: Concepts and Subject Knowledge: creating subject specific and cross-curricular connections
Chapter 6: Sequencing the learning for depth and progression
Chapter 7: Assessing learning: creating a collaborative and cohesive strategy for positive formative assessment
Chapter 8 - Curriculum Cohesion – a school in synergy
Chapter 9: Drawing together the strands that define a high quality curriculum