The Oxford International Curriculum is a new integrated curriculum, which places an emphasis on the enjoyment of teaching and learning, fostering wellbeing in education, and developing key global skills for learners’ future personal, career and academic success.
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Topic clustering ties learning outcomes from several topics (and even subjects) together. It focuses on a group of similar smaller concepts being taught together, to encourage a better understanding of big ideas and new knowledge.
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Most practical work in UK secondary schools follows a recipe-based formulaic approach which fails to teach students how to work independently or investigatively.
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In 2019, the British Academy, the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal Academy of Engineering produced a shared statement calling on the UK Government to adopt a national strategy for languages. They were concerned that the “UK’s poor language capacity has resulted in the loss of economic, social, cultural, and research […]
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Louise Aukland examines the current evidence surrounding wellbeing in young children and offers advice to help teachers embed wellbeing support into their lessons.
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Changes to the new Ofsted Inspection Framework may have left you wondering what a new Ofsted inspection focusing on maths might involve, and how best to prepare. That’s where we can help you.
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Reading through the Ofsted Education Inspection Framework (EIF) [1] it’s clear that there are some implications for Science departments and teachers that need to be considered. In this blog I’ll identify three key issues and discuss them. The three issues are: The 3 Is: Intent, Implementation, Impact Key Stage 3: Two Years vs Three Years Science or Biology, Chemistry & […]
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Rebecca Geoghegan responds to the launch of the Education Inspection Framework and considers I think the word that most resonates with me is ‘connect’. The new EIF outlines that inspections will focus on looking at the connections between all elements of education – the curriculum, the lessons, the books, the student’ outcomes – and consider […]
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As you’re probably already aware, a new Ofsted Education Inspection Framework will come into force in England in September 2019. You can get an overview of what the new Framework means for primary schools in our series of blog posts , where we’ve taken a closer look at the Framework, alongside the new School Inspection Handbook that Ofsted inspectors […]
Read more If you’ve already read the previous blog posts in our series to help you prepare for the new Ofsted Education Inspection Framework , you’ll know that how well pupils are taught to read will be prioritised as a main inspection activity in Primary schools from September 2019. But what does the Framework specifically say about phonics? We’ve taken a closer look and pulled out five key things that […]
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