Curriculum review incoming

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Curriculum has always been a political issue. What young people are (and are not) taught in school is rightly seen as important, and the decisions are not always open to individual schools or teachers to decide. Over the years, a number of 'national curriculum' documents have been published, following a lengthy process which has not always produced something that all those involved in the process have been happy with. The new Labour government is already turning its attention to the curriculum along with so much more. It looks like they will be funding a pay increase for teachers to put an end to recent threats of industrial action.

There are already new versions of existing specifications which are going ahead. 

There is also the uncertain fate of the GCSE in Natural History - we are still waiting for news of that.

Bridget Phillipson, the new Secretary of State for Education has announced a review of Curriculum and Assessment led by experts.

 

The person leading that review is certainly an expert, having worked with the Education Endowment Foundation - we used their toolkit when developing our work on the D3 ERASMUS project.

Professor Becky Francis was also the previous Director of the UCL Institute of Education - another organisation I have been involved with in the past - firstly as somone who helped develop the GeoCapabilities project and as a UCL Fawcett Fellow for 2022-23.

They will also take a look at OFSTED too.

I look forward to seeing what emerges, and hopefully having a say in anything which touches on the geography curriculum and the place of geography generally.

One good outcome will hopefully be a focus on SEND and those pupils who need more support and removing overly strict behaviour policies.

The TES article here outlines what we know so far.

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