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Working draft: With assessment amends (Feb 08) A big picture of the curriculum Three key questions The curriculum aims to enable all young people to become 1 What are we trying to achieve? Curriculum aims Every Child Matters outcomes Focus for learning Successful learners Confident individuals Responsible citizens who enjoy learning, make progress and achieve who are able to lead safe, healthy and fulfilling lives who make a positive contribution to society Be healthy Stay safe Enjoy and achieve Make a positive contribution Attitudes and attributes Skills eg determined, adaptable, confident, risk-taking, enterprising eg literacy, numeracy, ICT, personal, learning and thinking skills Achieve economic wellbeing Knowledge and understanding eg big ideas that shape the world The curriculum as an entire planned learning experience underpinned by a broad set of common values and purposes Components 2 How do we organise learning? Approaches to learning Whole curriculum dimensions Statutory expectations Lessons Locations Environment Opportunities for Varied and matched Assessment is spiritual, moral, to learning need fit for purpose social, cultural, e.g. enquiry, and integral to emotional, instruction, active, learning and intellectual and practical, theoretical teaching physical development Events In tune with human development Routines Extended hours Assessment Personalised develops offering challenge learners’ selfand support to esteem and enable enableallalllearners learnersto commitment to make progress and their learning achieve Relevant, purposeful and for a range of audiences Out of school Assessment uses Resource wella wide range of Involve matched to evidence to learners learning need encourage proactively in eg. use of time, learners to their own space, people, reflect on their learning materials own learning Overarching themes that have a significance for individuals and society, and provide relevant learning contexts: Identity and cultural diversity - Healthy lifestyles – Community participation – Enterprise – Global dimension and sustainable development – Technology and the media – Creativity and critical thinking. Communication, language and literacy A&D Ci D&T Creative development En Knowledge and understanding of the world Ge Hi ICT Mathematical development Ma MFL Personal, social and emotional development Mu PE PSHE PW EW+FC Physical development RE SC To make learning and teaching more effective so that learners understand quality and how to improve 3 How well are we achieving our aims? Evaluating impact Uses Uses both information Uses a wide Looks at the quantitative data intelligently to range of whole child and qualitative identify trends metrics information and goals Uses ‘critical Uses a variety Builds capacity friends’ to offer of techniques Involves the among the insights and to collect and whole school staff for school challenge analyse community improvement assumptions information Creates a continuous improvement cycle Is rigorous, open and honest To secure Accountability measures Attainment and improved standards Behaviour and attendance Civic participation Healthy lifestyle choices Further involvement in education, employment or training Adapted with thanks to colleagues at the Council for Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA)