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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