PLaTes, PiLaTes and PeTaLs

The personal learning and thinking skills (pronounced plaits, pelts and even petals depending on who you are speaking to) are the foundation stone on which the new curriculum is being built and the consistent theme that blends KS3 and KS4 learning. The philosophical shift from subject specific, content driven teaching to skills-focused, cross-curricular learning [...]

Assessing PLTS

Assessment is something of a grey area in terms of information and indeed reassurance for schools thus far. It will be important not to overlook the assessment and monitoring of progression in PLTS as well as any content or subject-specific skills. Successful change leaders will link developments at KS4 as well as KS3 and as [...]

QCA – The Big Picture

Around the three key questions that QCA have posed (See below) when considering the philosophical changes required for KS3 curriculum change, a “big picture” for curriculum change has been developed. The diagram goes some way towards unpicking the range of themes and implications behind the deceptively simple questions which should assist schools in their prioritisation, [...]

QCA Support for Curriculum Change

QCA continue to provide some decent materials to communicate the philosophical “whole child” changes they have made implicit in the new curriculum. I think it is important for QCA to keep banging the drum for their work with pioneering schools, PLTs and the curriculum dimensions. Without these messages I wonder how many schools would find [...]

First Post

This site has been set up as a means of collaborating, communicating ideas and sharing information about impending changes to the national curriculum. To use a popular phrase, the changes will be truly “root and branch” and require a rethink in terms of philosophy, pedagogy and the way in which teachers and pupils interact. This [...]

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