News, Views and Social
Back to the Front Page | The Change in the National Curriculum
This blog has been written by Focus Education’s Associate Consultant, Tim Nelson. In my last blog, I mentioned the inspection focus on concepts as well as knowledge. This was especially relevant in a recent remote inspection where the HMI was asking the school about their history national curriculum. Now,... View Article
School Monitoring | Out of the mouths of babes and children
This blog has been written by Focus Education’s Associate Consultant, Tim Nelson. Right, your starter for ten is where is that quote from? It’s originally from the bible, so well done if you knew that. Have a house point. The reason I chose that as a focus for this... View Article
8 Things for Primary Subject Leaders should consider as schools re-open
This blog has been written by Focus Education's Associate Consultant, Tim Nelson. When the papers and news channels announced schools are re-opening in March it would have been nice if they had acknowledged they never actually closed. We all know they have been open for more and more vulnerable children... View Article
Taking Knowledge Organisers to the Next Level
Many schools have developed knowledge organisers, knowledge mats, or something similar, even before the first lockdown. These carefully identified the key vocabulary for each unit of work, listing the ten or twelve ‘Roman’ or ‘Brazilian’ words and phrases, alongside the key learning. These have proved to be very useful. They... View Article
Character Education – The 6 Skills
The skills for ‘Character Education’ are suitably broken up into 6 areas Self Awareness Team Workers Being Resilient Commitment Problem Solver Showing Empathy These need to be taught and nurtured across all areas and ages. You may wish to view these as the ‘Learn to Live’ skills. We recognise that... View Article
Ofsted and Subject Leadership – Key Questions
Key elements of the subject leader role Key purpose Ensure that pupils make progress through each year group, acquiring and applying key knowledge, so that they at least meet the agreed age expectations in a subject. This is achieved by: securing high quality teaching; ensuring that planning meets the requirements... View Article
Sticky Knowledge in the Primary School Curriculum
The following example is taken from How to Assess a Knowledge Rick Curriculum? Focusing on ‘sticky knowledge’ in science, history & geography & enhanced by art, DT, music, PE & computing One of the main objectives that Ofsted looks for when judging a school’s curriculum intent is ensuring sequencing, so... View Article
Earth and Space Knowledge Mat – Space Week
World Space Week This week is World Space Week. World space week takes part between the 4th October and 10th October. The theme for 2019 is “The Moon: Gateway to the Stars” to find out more visit https://www.worldspaceweek.org/ Earth and Space is covered in the Year 5 curriculum. Below you... View Article
focuseducation1
📍 Oldham, Manchester
🏢 Supporting Schools 30 Years
📚 Publications & Resources
💻 Training & High-Quality CPD for Primary Schools
🗓 Inset & Consultancy