Curriculum in Action Project 25/26

The Curriculum Review: From Policy to Practice

The revised National Curriculum is coming – is your school ready?

This dynamic three-session programme equips school leaders with the knowledge, tools and strategic clarity to navigate the Curriculum and Assessment Review with confidence. You’ll move beyond theory into action: auditing your subjects against the review’s recommendations, interrogating your curriculum through an inclusion lens and embedding oracy as both a learning driver and assessment tool.

Walk away with more than just understanding. You’ll leave with completed subject audits, targeted actions to strengthen equity and access for every learner and a comprehensive action plan ready for implementation.

Whether you’re rethinking long-term plans or fine-tuning what’s already working, this is your roadmap to a curriculum that’s ambitious, inclusive and future-ready.

Audience:

Senior Leaders and Curriculum Leaders

Project Objectives

To understand the key elements of the Curriculum and Assessment review report and how this will impact the curriculum
To strengthen leaders’ understanding of what constitutes an inclusive curriculum
To develop oracy across the curriculum
To write action plans to prepare for the revised National Curriculum.

Project Outcomes

Leaders have audited their curriculum in response to the curriculum review in preparation for the revised National Curriculum
Leaders can evaluate their curriculum through an inclusion lens and plan improvements with precision
Leaders have incorporated oracy across the curriculum including its use as an assessment tool.

Session 1

Auditing a Subject

Focus: Understanding the Curriculum and Assessment Review Report.

Leaders will know the recommendations for all primary subjects from the Curriculum and Assessment Review. They will audit a subject in response to the review, examining their long-term and medium-term plans to identify where there are gaps or where amendments will be needed and identify next steps for that subject.

Outcome: Knowledge of the recommendations for all primary subjects, with a complete subject audit and clear next steps for addressing identified gaps and amendments.

Session 2

Inclusion in the Curriculum

Focus: Strengthening understanding of what constitutes an inclusive curriculum.

Leaders will evaluate their curriculum through an inclusion lens and plan improvements with precision. Participants will identify inclusive and non-inclusive elements of their current curriculum, articulate how these shape pupil experience and map out specific actions to strengthen equity and access across subjects.

Outcome: A clear understanding of inclusive curriculum principles with specific, targeted actions to improve equity and access.

Session 3

Oracy and Action Planning

Focus: Developing oracy across the curriculum and preparing for the revised National Curriculum.

Leaders will incorporate oracy across the curriculum, including its use as an assessment tool. Participants will identify where oracy can be developed further across the curriculum and understand how oracy can be used to assess learning. Drawing on content from all three sessions, participants will create action plans in readiness for the revised National Curriculum.

Outcome: Identified opportunities for oracy development across subjects, with a comprehensive action plan for curriculum implementation.

Throughout all sessions, where new information regarding the curriculum becomes available, we will amend our sessions to incorporate this so that you have the most up to date information and support for further developing your curriculum.

Curriculum in Action Project

Three virtual sessions
We recommend that two delegates attend the project
Access to the project includes access to an area on VNETCIC.com with all resources
VNET members can access one project as part of their membership package, additional projects cost £500+VAT
Non-member price £750+VAT

Dates

Emma Adcock

VNET Principal Consultant

Emma has just under twenty years of experience in the education sector, ten years of which she has spent working as an English Consultant for Norfolk Schools.

Emma is a former Headteacher, system leader and advanced skills teacher. She regularly provides additional leadership capacity for schools. This additional leadership has previously included: acting head positions, part-time assistant head roles and she has worked across schools as a teaching and learning coach to support Quality First Teaching.
Emma is also an experienced trainer who regularly provides training for VNET schools on the following: curriculum design, subject leadership, Reading, Writing, Spelling and the explicit teaching of vocabulary.

Maria Curry

VNET Associate

Maria worked for OFSTED as one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors for schools for the past five years. Prior to this she was a successful headteacher of two primary schools in Suffolk, judged Outstanding by OFSTED. She has been an inspector/adviser for Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk Local Authorities. Maria started her career in inner London, working in Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Newham. She has wide ranging experience of working with small and large schools, in rural and city regions, and in supporting leadership development and school improvement.

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