A New Primary Curriculum

Creative Teaching and Skills for Life

Does your school provide a stimulating curriculum that develops the skills your pupils need if they are to become excellent learners and successful adults?

Many schools do not have the teacher time and capacity to plan, develop and deliver a curriculum that addresses national agendas and initiatives in addition to meeting National Curriculum requirements.

EdisonLearnimg's solution was to create a new curriculum that addresses these issues. It is designed to allow teachers and children to be imaginative and creative while learning and also develops children's skills they need for success in life.

The EdisonLearning Primary Curriculum is in two parts, which can be used separately or together to form a cohesive whole.

• Our Integrated Curriculum provides exciting ideas and strategies to help teachers motivate and engage pupils in their learning
  
• Our Core Learning Skills Curriculum promotes a strong learning culture by explicitly and intentionally developing pupils' ability to learn more effectively
  

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Questions and Answers Relating to EdisonLearning's Primary Curriculum

What is the Core Learning Skills Curriculum?
What are the Core Learning Skills?
How is the Core Learning Skills Curriculum implemented in schools?
What is the Integrated Curriculum?
How will subject leaders monitor their Curriculum across the school?
Doesn't this mean a huge amount of planning for our teachers?
How was the Integrated curriculum developed?

What is the Core Learning Skills Curriculum?
The Core Learning Skills Curriculum supports the EdisonLearning Integrated Curriculum (or any creative subject curriculum). It intentionally and systematically develops pupils' personal learning and life skills, including the social and emotional aspects of learning and every Child Matters outcomes, which develops pupils' ability to learn more effectively and results in increased motivation, raised standards and accelerated progress.Top

What are the Core Learning Skills?
The Core Learning Skills are:

Learning with Others
Developing Independence and Responsibility
Improving Own Learning and Performance
Developing a Sense of Self Worth and Understanding of Self and Others

These strands are supported by the Core Learning Skills Framework which encompasses banks of 'I can' statements which are designed to be used as learning objectives / targets which clarify what the skills are in order to enable progression

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How is the Core Learning Skills Curriculum implemented in schools?
The Core Learning Skills Curriculum is carefully structured and comprises of teaching materials and associated documentation. EdisonLearning supports the process of change management and implementation with a cluster model, professional development package, delivered by expert advisers over five terms.
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What is the Integrated Curriculum?
The Integrated Curriculum is a structured framework of half termly themed Learning Units for each year group, covering Foundation subjects and Science that are mapped to and cover the National Curriculum requirements. It addresses Excellence and Enjoyment in making motivating and creative cross curricular links and providing exciting contexts for pupils' learning. It accommodates and assumes some discrete teaching of Literacy and Numeracy through the Framework and supports development of Community Cohesion and Global Citizenship.
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How will subject leaders monitor their Curriculum across the school?
The adoption of an integrated curriculum does present challenges for subject coordinators and requires that new ways of working are developed. The extensive curriculum documentation provides support to assist subject leaders.
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Doesn't this mean a huge amount of planning for our teachers?
The curriculum is a suggested framework to support teachers. It is not prescriptive, and the ideas do not have to be slavishly followed. However, the Integrated Learning Units provide comprehensive medium term plans from which teachers can draw their short term plans. Schools are encouraged to take ownership of the curriculum over time by developing it further to suit their particular pupils' needs and school context.
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How was the Integrated curriculum developed?
Many primary schools have found the QCA Units to be restrictive in their wish to deliver and exciting and motivational curriculum. EdisonLearning staff worked for over a year with practising teachers in order to take a fresh look at how the curriculum can be delivered in our schools.
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If you have any other questions about the Integrated Core Skills Primary Curriculum that you would like answered, please email us.