Schools should carefully plan their curriculum around the children to ensure that they receive a well-rounded, balanced education. Curriculum development expertise is essential for school leaders so that they can develop a school curriculum that incorporates the most important ideas in curriculum theory and the science of learning.
The aim of this two part blog is to give an overview of the DfE document ‘Teaching a broad and balanced curriculum for education recovery’ and to put into perspective what this means for provision and delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum in practical terms for early years and primary phases.
The aim of this two part blog is to give an overview of the DfE document ‘Teaching a broad and balanced curriculum for education recovery’ and to put into perspective what this means for provision and delivery of a broad and balanced curriculum in practical terms for early years and primary phases.
In part 1, we considered the need for a whole school vocabulary spine, in this edition, we will consider how best to teach the vocabulary that you have chosen to teach.
By the time a child is 13 years old, statistics have revealed that there is a 30-million-word gap between a pupil from a high socio-economic group and a pupil from the lowest socio-economic group. What can we do in our schools to address this gap?
