New Primary Curriculum

1. Mayfield Primary
School
Parents/carers
September 2014

2. DESIGNING A NEW CURRICULUM
DfE 2013
“The new national curriculum will set out only the essential knowledge
that all children should acquire, and give schools and teachers more
freedom to decide how to teach this most effectively and to design a
wider school curriculum that best meets the needs of their pupils”

3. DESIGNING A NEW CURRICULUM
The national picture
New national requirements / curriculum statutory from September 2014 for
Y1-Y6
Core subjects - English, maths and science for 2 and Y6 from September
2015
No level descriptors from Sept 2014, replaced with end of key stage
expectations so we won’t have levels and sub levels
Assessment will include more formal testing for EYFS, Y2 and Y6 have an
element of being secondary ready – more likely to be scale score which
won’t relate to a level – still waiting for details
Current Y5 will be the first year group to be tested under the new
arrangements

4. DESIGNING A NEW CURRICULUM
Our vision
Mayfield is a place where
Everyone is welcome
Our diversity enriches us all
We will do our best for ourselves and for each other
Our mission is to provide an environment in which all children can excel
Our aim is by 2015, is to be securely good with many outstanding aspects by
our own and Ofsted measures

5. DESIGNING A NEW CURRICULUM
So we looked to develop a curriculum which
 aims to meet and exceed the National Curriculum
 at the same time as developing the curriculum we were mindful
of measuring and tracking progress

6. DESIGNING A NEW CURRICULUM
How Why?Why?
How?
What?

7. DESIGNING A NEW CURRICULUM
The end in mind?

8. DESIGNING A NEW CURRICULUM
Basic learning At any age
Labelling/listing/memory re-call
Advanced learning Compare and contrast
Explain cause and effect
Deep learning Theories, ideas, questions

9. CHANGES TO THE MATHS CURRICULUM: YEAR 1
What’s gone?
Data handling/Statistics is removed from Y1
No specific requirement to describe patterns
No specific requirements to describe ways of solving problems or explain choices
What’s been added?
Counting & writing numerals to 100
Write numbers in words up to 20
Number bonds secured to 20
Use of vocabulary such as equal, more than, less than, fewer, etc.

10. CHANGES TO THE MATHS CURRICULUM: YEAR 6
Detail of problem-solving processes no longer explicit
Divisibility tests
Calculator skills move to KS3 PoS
Rotation moves to KS3
Probability moves to KS3
Median/Mode/Range no longer required
Compare and ordering fractions greater than 1
Long division
4 operations with fractions
Calculate decimal equivalent of fractions
Understand & use order of operations
Plot points in all 4 quadrants
Convert between miles and kilometres
Name radius/diameter and know relationship
Use formulae for area/volume of shapes
Calculate area of triangles & parallelograms
Calculate volume of 3-d shapes
Use letters to represent unknowns (algebra)
Generate and describe linear sequences
Find solutions to unknowns in problems

11. CHANGES TO THE ENGLISH CURRICULUM: Y1
Requirement to write non-narrative texts
Chronological & non-chronological texts
Typing skills
Reading of phonically-suitable texts
Reading words with contractions
Reading words with regular endings
Making inferences from texts
Learning and reciting poetry
Re-reading own writing to check for sense
Using capital letters for proper nouns
Name the letters of the alphabet
Spell the names of the days of the week
Adopt a suitable writing position
Form capital letters and digits 0-9
Practise handwriting letter ‘families’

12. CHANGES TO THE ENGLISH CURRICULUM: Y5
Specific mention of working in groups
Specific mention of dramatic skills
Creating multi-layered texts
Preparing poetry for performance
Learning poems by heart
Formal presentations about reading
Précising long passages of writing
Greatly detailed grammar specifics

13. HISTORY
 Reduced emphasis on sources & methodology
 Relatively little change at KS1, with slight increase in
national focus
 Reduced emphasis on diversity & culture
 Significant changes in KS2 breadth of study:
 Victorians/Britain since 1930 & Tudors removed
 Stone age added
 Romans, Anglo-Saxons & Vikings all required
 Slightly changes to ancient civilisation options
 A non-European study must be included
 One period of study that stretches past 1066

14. DESIGNING A NEW CURRICULUM
So what are Ofsted after?
Thirst for knowledge and love of learning
Opportunities for academic, technical and sporting excellence
Positive impact on all pupils behaviour

15. DESIGNING A NEW CURRICULUM
Asked the children

19. DESIGNING A NEW CURRICULUM
We have been working on the curriculum since last January
Subject leaders have been key in giving an overview of their subject in
curriculum meetings
Teachers then started to design a skills based curriculum and choose
topics based on the skills identified
Now we have a first draft of the long term overview which class teachers
are using for the curriculum this year

20. WHAT DRIVES OUR CURRICULUM?
Diversity
Enquiry and Challenge
Outdoors
Readers on a mission