September curriculum planning..

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.. yeah I know, sorry.

So, I need to start thinking about September in terms of curriculum. I know we don't really have any clue what's going to happen, but let's go for Occam's Razor and assume this government is getting us all back full time without any consideration to a virus.

Primary maths - going to start as normal with place value, or try and cover things that have been missed this term first? Ie, am I thinking about year 3 place value for my year 3s, or year 2 mass/length/whatevs?

I assume we'll do a week or so of checking things out for phonics and spelling, then just do as usual and kinda stream them a bit.

Writing... aaaagh, it's going to be a mess.

I'm not the one who will make the final decision, but I'll be expected to have an input, so kind of want to think about it now.

I've done all my topic planning already - medium term planning anyway.

I'm a secondary core middle leader and I feel your pain! Thinking about it makes me want to lie in a dark room

It's hard because we are obviously going to have to check what has been retained but equally we can't spend ages just catching up.

Trying to plan for my Y13 is keeping me awake at night!

Sorry, unhelpful but I'm right there with you!

I absolutely refuse to do any sort of testing to sort this out - not in September anyway.

We can spot phonics and English gaps pretty quickly through normal lessons. Whole class marking will help with that.

I'm thinking that maths might just have to be push on with the proper units at the right time - they haven't applied the stuff, but they have been taught it (back in September). We can then backfill gaps and even whole units of prior year group stuff as we're going through.

Maybe. Aaagh.

For September I would have thought a recap of what a desk looks like, how to sit at it, that you can't wander off whenever you please, that you sometimes have to wait for a bit before you can go for a wee.

Oh, and that teachers are not youtubers and how to tune back into two-way communication.

If you get a bit of adding done in amongst that... happy days.

Secondary here. We will just pretend everything is normal , highlight possible gaps in our SOWs and plug the holes as and when. I have decided not to think about it too much to preserve my sanity.

Secondary MFL, not changing what we do, but preparing to do it in a variety of different ways, probably at ridiculously short notice

We've been told first term curriculum is to focus on emotional wellbeing and mental health.. Academics are second to this. Normal curriculum won't apply even if we are back to full time, full class education - which I highly doubt we will be.
Assessments of where gaps are will be done gradually, but definitely not in September. That'll be spent learning how to sit on bums again!!

@reefedsail you've nailed it!