A third of primary pupils ‘will fail new tests’: Almost 200,000 children will be told they are not prepared for secondary school after exams are introduced in 2016 .
The subject of testing has and always will be a contentious one. The new head of OFSTED has stated that she doesn’t think that our children are tested too much. This might be “officially correct” – however in the climate created by OFSTED, the pressure on schools has created a “testing epidemic!”
In this article I am going to look at the role of the subject coordinator for CORE subjects.
Lets firstly look at the message that this poll sends:
Firstly the question….”Do you think the current Primary Curriculum is fit for purpose?”
In this second of our articles we look at RESIDENTIAL TRIPS for Primary children and how to organise and run these.
School trips are a great opportunity to get out of the school environment and to experience a huge array of new and exciting learning situations – some directly linked to the curriculum and some not.
If you have never done so, then try giving your class a general knowledge quiz – no not with curriculum questions, rather with questions regarding the world about them.
I was in a school the other day and as I walked about I noticed a teacher sticking photographs into a very nice art ring bound book. The photographs were a record of some practical art that the class had done and were accompanied by brief descriptions of what was happening.
Today we consider school libraries – do all schools still have them and are they still needed or indeed relevant?
In this final article I am going to try to pull all our thoughts together on the subject of work/life balance. We all know of the dangers of this being out of line and the effects it can have on not only our teaching but more importantly our home lives.