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Curriculum Development with Jon Hutchinson February 13th 2020
About this Event
Since the launch of Ofsted’s new education inspection framework, curriculum has become the zeitgeist of every school’s agenda. Intention, implementation and impact are the buzzwords of the year.
A renewed focus on curriculum is both a wonderful opportunity and a potential threat to any school. A huge raise in curriculum leaders’ workload is just one of the unintended consequences that has already arisen, as well as grabs for quick fixes and gimmicks.
Reach Academy has been developing a knowledge-rich, intelligently-sequenced curriculum for over three years. In 2018, the Department for Education awarded Reach Academy funding for three pilots, with the curriculum materials being used in a dozen schools.
In this session, Jon Hutchinson - who helped lead the project - will outline the research principles that underpin curriculum, share examples of the materials and give leaders a chance to see it in action through video.
Jon Hutchinson
Jon is an Assistant Headteacher at Reach Academy, Feltham, in charge of curriculum and assessment in the primary phases. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Ambition Institute, where he tutors on the Masters course in Expert Teaching. As well as experience as a class teacher in Key Stages One and Two, Jon has recently started to teach A Level Religious Studies. Over the last few years, Jon has been an expert adviser to Ofsted, the Standards and Testing Agency, and the DfE. @jon_hutchinson_
Since the launch of Ofsted’s new education inspection framework, curriculum has become the zeitgeist of every school’s agenda. Intention, implementation and impact are the buzzwords of the year.
A renewed focus on curriculum is both a wonderful opportunity and a potential threat to any school. A huge raise in curriculum leaders’ workload is just one of the unintended consequences that has already arisen, as well as grabs for quick fixes and gimmicks.
Reach Academy has been developing a knowledge-rich, intelligently-sequenced curriculum for over three years. In 2018, the Department for Education awarded Reach Academy funding for three pilots, with the curriculum materials being used in a dozen schools.
In this session, Jon Hutchinson - who helped lead the project - will outline the research principles that underpin curriculum, share examples of the materials and give leaders a chance to see it in action through video.
Jon Hutchinson
Jon is an Assistant Headteacher at Reach Academy, Feltham, in charge of curriculum and assessment in the primary phases. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Ambition Institute, where he tutors on the Masters course in Expert Teaching. As well as experience as a class teacher in Key Stages One and Two, Jon has recently started to teach A Level Religious Studies. Over the last few years, Jon has been an expert adviser to Ofsted, the Standards and Testing Agency, and the DfE. @jon_hutchinson_
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CONFERENCE 2019:
#CurriculumED2019
With curriculum at the heart of the new Ofsted inspection framework, and a growing interest in what has been termed a ‘knowledge rich curriculum’, we teamed up with Lichfield Cathedral School to create #CurriculumED2019 with from great speakders from Christine Counsell and Martin Robinson to Sean Harford and Clare Sealy.
- How can our curriculum take children on awe inspiring Journeys through Space, Light and Time?
- How does curriculum enable students to participate in the great conversation of humankind?
- How can curriculum design help to build and strengthen character?
- How can our curriculum take children on awe inspiring Journeys through Space, Light and Time?
- How does curriculum enable students to participate in the great conversation of humankind?
- How can curriculum design help to build and strengthen character?
Some photos from the conference...
AUTUMN TERM EVENT
We were delighted to welcome Daisy Christodoulou to our first termly Hub event at the Erdington Academy in Birmingham. She spoke about her book 'Seven Myths about Education'. Josh Sutheran @mrsutheran wrote a very useful summary of the talk - click here for the link.
Many thanks to Claire Stoneman and her wonderfully polite pupils who hosted the event.
Many thanks to Claire Stoneman and her wonderfully polite pupils who hosted the event.
LAUNCH AND FIRST CONFERENCE
Our official launch was on May 10th 2018 with The Rt Hon Nick Gibb MP, School Standards Minister launching the project. This was followed by our first conference on the 12th of May. Click here for a transcript of his speech.