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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 overhaul is taking place in front of an already evolving backdrop which will also need to be considered if the curriculum changes are to be successfully embedded. The challenges represented by Extended schools, Building Schools for the Future, the advent of diploma based learning, functional skills and the initiatives outlined in the recent Children’s Plan will all need to be mapped and an holistic approach adopted for schools to reduce the likelihood of faltering, failure or…. farce?!