comprehensive ideals in the curriculum. education festival 2015

A Transformative Curriculum For All

Tom SherringtonHeadteacher

Highbury Grove School@headguruteacher

Comprehensive Ideals

What does a comprehensive curriculum look like…?

Social Justice, Cultural Capital, Character Education, Raising the Bar???

• Grammar = Knowledge

• Dialectic = Exploration

• Rhetoric = Communication

Enacted curriculum; pedagogy

Teaching and Learning Priorities for 2015/6 • Behaviour for Learning• Speaking: structured speech

events and routines• Literacy: explicit teaching of

reading, writing and subject specific language

• Feedback policy and practice; making feedback count, closing the gap

• Explicit knowledge: what should be known; how it should be learned

• Assignments 

Cultural CapitalPP Funding supporting, core entitlements

Y6—>Y7: British Museum Family Learning Project

Y7: Paris – Language, overseas travel, culture

Y8: Ypres – Battlefields, history,

Y9: Outward Bound

Highbury Grove Historical Hundred…

Music at Highbury Grove School

…Grammar, Dialectic (logos) and Rhetoric…..

……….physical challenges that are authentic, that stretch each child, and give them experiences they would not otherwise get…

The National Baccalaureate

Why a National Bacc?

• Bridging the academic-technical divide• Creating Pathways to Success for all learners. • Reducing the emphasis on examinations at 16• Giving value to Personal Development within the curriculum. • Locating issues of examination reliability and validity in a broader

context. • Giving value to extended personal study outside the confines of

examinations.• Providing incentives to develop post-GCSE Maths and English

qualifications.• Providing coherent and consistent information regarding

candidates’ achievements and personal development to universities and employers

The National Baccalaureate @Highbury Grove

Final Baccalaureate Transcript.

Core Entitlement/ Requirements

Three Core A Levels or BTECs Extended Project

(EPQ)

Personal Development Programme: 150 Hours:

Community, Physical, Creative, Cultural

Completion of KS4

Best 8 GCSEs with Ma/En

Additional A Levels

Additional Qualifications

and Achievements