Planning the Primary National Curriculum
A complete guide for trainees and teachers
- Keira Sewell - Education Consultant
Ready to Teach
To prepare to teach the new Primary National Curriculum, you need more than just the Programmes of Study. You need a resource to help you understand, plan for, teach and assess the curriculum. This is it! Your guide to planning the Primary National Curriculum.
This book explores how to plan in primary schools. It covers curriculum design and structure, challenges to learning, and how children learn. New in this edition is a chapter on planning for mastery.
For each curriculum subject the programme of study is included, with notes to help you interpret it for your own class. The text covers how the teaching of each subject can be organised, assessment opportunities, key and essential resources in each subject, and how ICT can best be used in each subject to enhance teaching. Sequenced lesson examples in all subject chapters link theory to practice and highlight progression.
The final section of the book explores the many ways in which the curriculum can be delivered. It includes the creative curriculum, dialogic teaching, cross-curricular learning and more current thinking about interpreting the curriculum.
This book has been very useful in my current placement school, it has all of the national curriculum requirements with brilliant lesson examples for each subject. It shows how to set out a good lesson plan and ways to match it to the curriculum. It also gives many possible ways to plan and things to incorporate into lessons. I would definitely recommend this book to those in primary education.
We have adopted this book for our placement module for trainees. It has been useful to see how the book helps trainees to break down learning objectives and success criteria creations. Examples provided are meaningful for trainees and a good starting point for their own professional development.
Helpful guide for all new students to QTS and the education routes.
Accurate in its description of being the complete guide.
A very useful book to support PGCE and SD trainees.
This book never arrived.
This is a useful book which explores how to plan in primary schools. There is good coverage of curriculum design and structure and it also looks at some of the challenges to learning and there is some reflection on how children learn.
For area of the primary curriculum there is coverage or the programme of study with some notes. The book covers how each subject can be organised and also some assessment opportunities for each subject area. There are suggestions for essential resources and also some thoughts on how technology can be used. There are also examples of lesson planning with links to theory - though these could have been more developed for use for ITE students.
I have recommended this to our PGCE Primary teacher trainees as it is an excellent starting point and provides a comprehensive overview of the key issues.
A good text to prepare students for teacher training interviews
