Extraordinary announcements today. The one flaw seems to be SATs – any discussion of these was outside the remit of the review.
SATs – “the elephant in the room” and of course it is the tests themselves.
Sir Jim Rose’s Interim report into the Primary Curriculum advocates ‘areas of learning’ rather than the traditional subject based curriculum.
Lessons in being happy proposed
from the BBC.
Scrap history lessons in primary, says study. Polly Curtis in the Guardian.
Sir Jim Rose on the Today Programme
The interim report website is here.
The report itself can be downloaded from here.
Numicon highlight some of the key recommendations here.
One can only hope it is well thought through and achievable not to mention funded and not just putting together everything from the last 20yrs + a soupcon of that cross curricular teaching from a generation ago + emphasising ‘understanding’ + not too mention rigorous teaching of literacy and numeracy which can then be applied across the curriculum + a level of use of ICT that is currently being used in secondary? + solving the ‘ills’ of society +++
ICT comes up smelling like Roses from Never mind the technology, where’s the learning.
Hmmm. Far be it from me to seem negative but unless the curriculum is simplified and we have the time to promote the ‘understanding’ using things like “Mantle of the Expert’ and any other inspired ways of submersing the children in their learning then this doesn’t fly anymore than anything else has. I remember last year trying to use the revised literacy strategy and having to bounce backwards and forwards from the original literacy strategy documents to the new ones to find out which objectives were to be covered, a computer planning system that didn’t work and general feeling of far too much to do and too little time to do it.
The other experts began to appear today!
Experts caution against themed classes Anthea Lipsett in the Guardian
One summation of the proposals in the report came from Primary Teacher UK
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