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EdisonLearning welcomes the publishing of Sir Jim Rose’s Review of the Primary Curriculum.
Friday, 1st May, 2009
Today's publication of Sir Jim Rose's long-awaited report into the Primary Curriculum (Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum: Final Report) marks an important step forwards for schools increasingly frustrated by the straightjacket of our current content-laden educational diet, and seeking greater opportunities for creativity, flexibility and individuality in the primary classroom. But Rose's new world does not represent a shift back to the days prior to the National Curriculum. Yes, teachers will be free to move away from the content-driven practice that has constrained and often stifled the profession over recent years, but this freedom will be balanced against a new set of demands and challenges, requiring new teaching skills to be acquired, curriculum planning and coordination to be advanced, and the learning of personal and social skills given a greatly enhanced position.
Although these changes are to be greatly welcomed, the implications for schools and teachers, who will have to turn these recommendations into working, practical school-based solutions cannot be underestimated. There is much work to be done.
Schools which have partnered with EdisonLearning have a head start in this work when compared to their colleagues in other schools. For the past five years, EdisonLearning has pioneered many of the approaches to the curriculum that now feature centrally within the Rose Review, and has worked with teachers in more than 80 schools in the UK to turn these approaches into real school-wide solutions that have motivated and engaged pupils and teachers alike.
The EdisonLearning Primary Curriculum is a framework that supports any school through the process of developing its own integrated and holistic curriculum that both meets national requirements and reflects the local context. It balances the need for the acquisition of subject-based knowledge and skills against the imperative to build the essential skills for learning and skills for life that will prepare pupils for their future lives in education and beyond, and provides a framework to support teachers in acquiring the skills they need to excel in this new context.
The EdisonLearning Primary Curriculum is not a published set of curriculum resources - nor is it a packaged response to the Rose Review. It is a proven and manageable approach to curriculum development that will enable any school to develop their own high-quality curriculum that fully reflects the spirit and requirements of the Review.
For more information about EdisonLearning's Primary Curriculum click here>>
You can download the Rose Report here>>
A new primary curriculum