Transcript New Primary National Curriculum

New Primary
National Curriculum
Timetable
The new Primary National Curriculum
is statutory for children going into
Year 1, Year 3, Year 4 and Year 5
from September 2014
 Children going into Year 2 and Year 6
will be under the old curriculum for
next year since they are close to the
end of their respective Key Stages
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Overview of changes
It’s more demanding
 Levels will go, schools will be able to
develop their own ways of monitoring
progress
 SATs will stay, but there will be no
Level 6 papers at KS2 and no
calculators in maths
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Changes for maths
What’s hot?
 Formal written methods
(earlier) (see appendix)
 Times tables up to 12 x
12 (Year 4)
 Fractions (earlier & more
of)
 Roman numerals (Years
4 & 5)
 Algebra (Year 6)
What’s not?
 Informal written
methods
 Calculators (largely)
 Probability
 Data Handling (now
called Statistics)
(less of, and none in
Year 1)
Changes for English
What’s hot?
 Phonics
 Comprehension
 Reading for pleasure
 Learning poetry by
heart
 Drama
 Stages in writing
process
 SPAG (see
appendices 1 & 2)
What’s not?
 Reading strategies
that aren’t based on
phonics eg building a
sight vocabulary of
high frequency words
 Speaking & Listening
is now called Spoken
Language
 Using ICT eg word
processing work/
inserting images
Support for KUWTC tutors
Family Learning KUWTC wiki pages
 DP for your area (who’s probably
teaching it too)
 Subject Leaders in the school
 Organisations like NCETM, National
Literacy Trust and Times Educational
Supplement (need a log in for their
resources)
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