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Joint project announced to support the sector on curriculum development
The Confederation of School Trusts (CST) and Ormiston Academies Trust (OAT) are conducting a joint project that will support the sector to develop the language, processes and practices supporting new curriculum development.
The project, which will run from March to the end of the academic year, will bring leading curriculum thinkers together to create a suite of guidance materials for school trusts based on a new curriculum lexicon.
It is important that school trusts maintain curriculum freedoms. CST believes it is time to move on from the language and concepts underpinning the National Curriculum. Its work will build on the work already done by curriculum experts like Christine Counsell and Michael Fordham. For example, they will develop the concept that the curriculum as the progression model is a much more secure concept that the language of separate key stages.
The project's intention is to work across the sector, including with the inspectorate and the Department for Education, to build a professional consensus around curriculum, based on the best evidence.
The work will attempt to build coherence in both policy and practice in relation to curriculum.
Amelia Walker, currently OAT’s national director of strategy and quality, and previously Ofsted’s deputy director of research and evaluation, will lead the project.
Nick Hudson, Chief Executive of Ormiston Academies Trust, said: “OAT is delighted to support this project. Amelia has real experience both in curriculum development and in research, previously with Ofsted and now with a large academy trust of more than 30 secondary schools, so is perfectly placed to lead this piece of work with CST.”
Leora Cruddas, Chief Executive of the Confederation of School Trusts (CST) said: “CST is delighted to be working with OAT to deliver this important piece of work. This is exactly the kind of constructive intervention which I believe a responsible sector body should make. I am very much looking forward to working with Amelia.’
Amelia Walker said: “I am delighted to have the opportunity to work with CST on this timely and exciting project. The focus on curriculum is a hugely important one for the sector, which is exactly why the sector should be front and centre in the debate.”
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