Issue - meetings

Changes to the Primary Curriculum

Meeting: 19/05/2014 - Early Years, Children and Youth Policy Development and Scrutiny Panel (Item 10)

Changes to the Primary Curriculum

The Primary Teaching & Learning Consultant will give a presentation to the Panel regarding this item.

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Minutes:

The Primary Teaching & Learning Consultant delivered a presentation to the Panel regarding this item. A copy of it is available on the Panel’s Minute Book, a summary is set out below.

 

Citizenship

?  To be taught at Key Stages 3 & 4

 

Core, Computing & PE

?  To be taught at all Key Stages

 

Non- National Curriculum Subjects

 

Religious Education

?  To be taught at all Key Stages

 

Sex and relationship education

?  To be taught at Key Stages 3 & 4

 

The School Curriculum

 

Every state-funded school must offer a curriculum which is balanced and broadly based and which:

?  promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society,

?  and prepares pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.

 

All schools must publish their school curriculum by subject and academic year online.

 

All schools should make provision for personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE), drawing on good practice. Schools are also free to include other subjects or topics of their choice in planning and designing their own programme of education.

 

Cultural Literacy - certain facts, ideas, literary works that people need to know in order to operate effectively as citizens of the country in which they live.

These facts need to be learnt in a highly organised, structured way.

 

DfE Statutory Assessments 2016+

 

Key stage 1

 

English reading

English grammar, punctuation and spelling

Mathematics

Phonics screening check

 

Key stage 2

 

English reading

English grammar, punctuation and spelling

Mathematics

Science (sampling test)

 

Floor Standards

 

?  pupils make sufficient progress at key stage 2 from their starting point in the reception baseline/Key Stage 1; or

?  85% or more of pupils meet the new expected standard at the end of key stage 2 (similar to a level 4b under the current system).

 

Councillor Liz Hardman asked how much consultation took place before a decision was made.

 

The Primary Teaching & Learning Consultant replied that three drafts were circulated during the consultation.

 

Edward Joseph asked to what level coding would be taught.

 

The Primary Teaching & Learning Consultant replied that simplified versions of Flash were being devised to enable pupils to write code efficiently. He added that they would also have access to code libraries.

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