Draft Primary National Curriculum

1. Draft Primary National Curriculum What would change?

2. English What’s out? • Speaking & Listening no longer appears as a strand • Drama is not mentioned • No mention of ICT • No method for teaching reading other than phonics (i.e. context., etc.) What’s in? • Year-by-year objectives (34 pages) • Required spelling & grammar objectives & wordlists (16pp) • Priority for phonics in both key stages • Focus on reading for pleasure • Reciting poetry • Priority on transcription

3. English – an example Y5/6 page

4. English – Year 3/4 wordlists

5. English – Grammar objectives

6. Mathematics What’s out? • Ma1 – Using & Applying • Mathematical reasoning • Communicating maths • Data handling in Y1 • Use of ICT • Use of calculators except in exceptional cases in upper KS2 What’s in? • Yearly objectives (40 pages) • Tables to 12x12 by end of Y4 • Standard written methods • Focus on fractions • Y5 convert decimalfraction • Telling time in Y2; using Roman numerals in Y3 • Area of triangles & parallelograms in Y6

7. Mathematics – what’s when? • Multiplication tables: Y2: 2, 5 & 10 times tables Y4: all tables up to 12x12 Y3: 3, 4 & 8 times tables • Standard written methods: Y3: Column addition and subtraction Y5: Short division Y4: Standard column multiplication Y6: Long division • Fractions Y1: Introduce ¼ and ½ Y4: Add + Subtract fractions Y2: ¾ and 1/3. Find ½ of a number Y5: Use mixed numbers Y3: Add and order simple fractions Y6: Add & Multiply fractions • Algebra Y6: Simple formulae, finding missing numbers, etc.

8. Science What’s out? • Much less content at KS1: No mention of medicines, electricity, light & dark, or material changes caused by temperatures • No forces before Y6 (except looking at simple magnets work) What’s in? • Yearly objectives (34 pages) • Broadly similar to the old QCA units in a slightly different order • Continued emphasis on investigation across all areas • Evolution in Y4 & Y6 • Classification into kingdoms at Y6

9. Art What’s out? • Evaluating work • Requirement to collaborate What’s in? • A single page curriculum for KS1-2 combined: • Use a range of materials, including sketchbooks in KS2 • Develop techniques • Learn about the great artists

10. ICT  Computing What’s out? • The name ICT • Very little mention of presenting ideas or information • No mention of cross-curricular use of ICT What’s in? • Changes to “Computing” • Largely based around the old Control elements, e.g. In KS1: “understand what algorithms are, how they are implemented as programs on digital devices, and that programs execute by following a sequence of instructions” • E-safety mentioned at every Key Stage

11. Design & Technology What’s out? • No planning / generating ideas at KS1 • No mechanisms at KS1 • No mention of working from a brief at KS2 • No use of ICT required What’s in? • Healthy cooking to be covered at every Key Stage (with regard to available cooking facilities) • Development of repair & maintenance skills (!) • Understanding of key turning points in history, e.g. Industrial Revolution

12. Geography What’s out? • No investigative questioning • No KS1 comparison with other UK locations • No mention of environmental sustainability • No African, Asia or Australasian geography What’s in? • Factual knowledge, e.g. continents & oceans at KS1 • UK focus at KS1, plus one non-European comparison • Europe & the Americas covered at KS2 • Identification of rivers, mountains, etc. in UK • OS four-figure grid references

13. History What’s out? • Personal timeline history • Historical enquiry skills • Britain since 1930s • Victorians • Aztecs, Incas, etc. • Diversity in the UK & the world What’s in? • KS1: Concepts of monarchy, parliament, civilisation, democracy and war & peace • KS2: Strictly chronological progression through history of Britain from early Britons to Glorious Revolution (1688) • Requirement to teach Ancient Rome & Greece

14. Just work your way through.... • Early Britons and settlers, including: • the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages • Celtic culture and patterns of settlement • Roman conquest and rule, including: • Caesar, Augustus, and Claudius • Britain as part of the Roman Empire • the decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire • Anglo-Saxon and Viking settlement, including: • the Heptarchy • the spread of Christianity • key developments in the reigns of Alfred, Athelstan, Cnut and Edward the Confessor • Norman Conquest and Norman rule, including: • the Domesday Book • feudalism • Norman culture • the Crusades • Plantagenet rule in the 12th and 13th centuries, including: • key developments in the reign of Henry II, including the murder of Thomas Becket • Magna Carta • de Montfort's Parliament • Relations between England, Wales, Scotland and France, including: • William Wallace • Robert the Bruce • Llywelyn and DafyddapGruffydd • the Hundred Years War • Life in 14th-century England, including: • Chivalry • the Black Death • the Peasants’ Revolt

15. ... all of this in four years! • The later Middle Ages and the early modern period, including: • Chaucer and the revival of learning • Wycliffe’s Bible • Caxton and the printing press • the Wars of the Roses • Warwick the Kingmaker • The Tudor period, including: • religious strife and Reformation • the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary • Elizabeth I's reign and English expansion, including: • colonisation of the New World • plantation of Ireland • conflict with Spain • The Renaissance in England, including: • the lives and works of individuals such as Shakespeare and Marlowe • The Stuart period, including: • the Union of the Crowns • King versus Parliament • Cromwell's commonwealth, the Levellers and the Diggers • the restoration of the monarchy • the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London • Samuel Pepys and the establishment of the Royal Navy • the Glorious Revolution, constitutional monarchy and the Union of the Parliaments.

16. Foreign Languages What’s out? • Freedom to select any language • Focus on inter-cultural understanding • Links to English literacy What’s in? • Statutory foreign languages at Key Stage 2, selected from:French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Spanish, Latin or Ancient Greek • Teaching should focus on making progress in 1 language • Includes a balance of all four skills and a focus on developing accurate pronunciation

17. Music What’s out? • Description of ‘elements’ (now called inter-related dimensions!) • No mention of collaboration at KS1 • No requirement to respond to listening What’s in? • A single page curriculum for KS1-2, largely focussed on singing & playing instruments • Use of staff and other forms of notation in KS2 • Develop an understanding of history of music at KS2

18. Physical Education What’s out? • No evaluation at KS1 • No mention of health & fitness • No specific games at KS1 What’s in? • A focus on competitive games • KS2 Swimming: “perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations”

19. What you can do... • Consultation runs until 16th April (i.e. After Easter) • Complete the form at www.education.gov.uk/nationalcurriculum • Write to your MP (could be via www.theyworkforyou.com • Respond to Subject Association consultations, e.g. • History • Mathematics • Geography