National Curriculum changes Sept 2011 - job interview help!

[PippiL]

Any advice from teachers - or those who know the curriculum would be great for a job interview I have tomorrow.

I need to know how much the National Curriculum can and might change for Sept 2011.

Job interview is for an educational publishing company who publish Maths and Literacy framework series.

The idea being that I talk through how I might go about planning for commissioning a series of books based on a curriculum we don't know yet.

My idea being that there may be key areas that don't ever change that much, so therefore some content could be written in advance before the actual curriculum is made public - therefore giving the company a head start on publishing the texts...

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Pippit unless an incoming government decide to abandon the new curriculum it will be in place in Sept 2011. It was announced on Nov 19th in the Queens speech.
The new Primary Curriculum is radically different from the present curriculum. It will more closely resemble the EYFS curriculum with 6 learning areas instead of subjects. It is very skills based and leaves schools/teachers a great deal of freedom to decide how they organise the curriculum.
We do know the curriculum it is published - I have a copy in my school bag - and it's been available to view on line for a few months.

new curriculum sorry I forgot the link

Thanks mrz.

In the info they gave me they base the discussion task on not knowing the final version of the curriculum until Sept 2010.

Have you known the content of the new curriculum for some time now? Is it finalised?

Would there ever be a situation where you were only given a year before a new curriculum came into place, or is that unlikely?

I guess they are just trying to assess how I would go about planning for new series texts based on limited information, not the actual situation as it is now.

Though this does help though as gives me an idea that if it leaves teachers with the freedom to decide how they organise the curriculum I guess that would make life more difficult for publishers wishing to publish texts and lesson plans based around the curriculum.

We have known the content since last year the final document went live in February but it hasn't any major changes from the draft version. It doesn't become statutory until 2011

There are a number of case studies on the website as schools are already using it.

As it is skills based it also gives a great deal of freedom over content - choice of countries studied for geography aspects and periods in history for example.

Looking at the amazon feedback for their current range of texts for the framework I am guessing that they published these in a rush to cover the new curriculum and in places it doesn't match up properly, or the resources don't match up.

I guess these are the kind of things that are very useful to NQTs and as a basis for lesson planning, but that more innovative resources can be found on the internet.

The Framework is something different again

Oh ok! Think i am missing the point here!

Whats the framework then?

The Framework is a non statutory document for Literacy and Numeracy

Anything published prior to Nov 2009 is unlikely to be useful

I would probably have a look at www.amazon.co.uk/Reasoning-Numeracy-Foundation-Practical-Guidance/dp/0415476542/ref=sr_1_25?ie=UTF8& s=books&qid=1270653196&sr=1-25 although aimed at EYFS they cover the six areas which the new curriculum will build upon.

I thought the numeracy and literacy frameworks were on their way out next year?

IWTEB I've read they are going to be scrapped then was told not the case so I'm not 100% sure but as they aren't statutory doesn't matter in the long run.

'As we move to our new model of how
improvement support is delivered to schools,
we will not renew the current, central
contract for the National Strategies when it
comes to an end in 2011. We will delegate
the funding for the Primary and Secondary
National Strategies to schools, and expect
them, with their SIPs, to use it to continue
their investment in improving their literacy,
numeracy and other core business....'

That's from the white paper on Building 21st century school system. It's taken me ages to search through the weasley words!!! Goodness knows what it means in practice!

I did find out that the payment to Capita in 2009 for running Nat Strategies was around £64m!!!

The new curriculum has been dropped from the education bill so is unlikely to become law if there is a change of government

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8607677.stm
"Under the redrafted Bill, home school agreements, which give head teachers stronger powers to enforce parents' responsibilities in maintaining good behaviour, have been dropped.

Reforms of the primary school curriculum, allowing schools greater flexibility to tailor teaching to their children, have also been shelved, as have catch-up lessons, one-to-one tuition and small group support for pupils needing extra support. "

www.dcsf.gov.uk/news/index.cfm?event=news.item&id=statement_on_the_children_schools_and_families_bil l