International Primary Curriculum

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Our school is adopting this in September. My son's year group (1) have trialled it and he enjoyed it.

I am just wondering if anyone has any experiences of it and opinions.

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Blerdy Mission to Mars and all that crap.
My kids school used it as a MASSIVE shield to hide dumbing down and coasting.

Blimey that doesn't sound very good.

My school have trialled it this term and we have found it restrictive and uninteresting. We are doing our own thing next year-hurrah!

I have just found an old MN thread about it. I have just become a Governor so will be watching carefully to ensure effective implementation as that seems to be the key.

DS's school have been using it for past year. Seems to be okay and is very much enjoyed by the children. From what I've seen, it's like everything else, so it depends on the teachers. If you've got good teachers, who are on side with it, it's great. If they're half soaked and there's no-one properly co-ordinating it, it's pretty useless.

Our school just uses it in the afternoons from what I can see. I have no idea if that's the norm, but Literacy/ Maths and more formal traditional type learning is done more in the morning, then IPC topic is used creatively after lunch.

See our school is keeping literacy and numeracy separate too so we may well have much the same approach. At the last Governors meeting the teachers certainly seem to be on board and feel that it provides more time to really be engrossed. We will see. We have a new HT who started in Jan so is now bringing in lots of not very popular changes.

Ours came in via a new HT too. She's hugely enthusiastic about it, and the rest of the staff seem to have leapt on board. Hope it works out for you.

Our school has been using it for the last year too. Some maths and literacy are IPC related - but not all.
The kids have loved it and been fully involved.
I must admit to being sceptical at first, but as the year went on it really got into full swing. It particularly works when different years collaborate on the same topic.

Dear MumsNet contributors,
I am a mum and I taught the IPC for several years before joining the organisation. I joined the IPC because it made such a difference to the children I taught. The IPC is an exceptional way for children to learn if teachers and schools use it in the right way. In reference to letseatgrandma, the IPC is not restrictive. Schools have total freedom to use or adapt the learning tasks in a way that is best for their children and their school. Some schools do use it better than others, it?s true, But when used well, the IPC engages children and ignites their desire to learn and because of this and because of its rigour, the IPC has received a lot of very good recognition from Ofsted. You may find the IPC website helpful for more information and for ideas of how schools all over the world are using it to help children learn. The web address is www.greatlearning.com/ipc. I hope this helps.