Webinar: PRIMARY: Design and implementation of a creative curriculum by MA Education

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About This Webinar

This workshop will present a case study of how St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Primary School has prioritised a creative curriculum. It will include how to share the curriculum intent to inspire all stakeholders – pupils, staff, parents, governors, Ofsted and visitors in general – including the role of the school website.

National Leader of Education, Helen Frostick, will also consider how to incorporate pupil voice into curriculum design and will offer practical ways to communicate the vision through eye-catching themes and visuals while at the same time linking it to the School Development Plan. The workshop will also cover what to include in curriculum knowledge maps for each subject – what, why now and what next? – to ensure that they are Ofsted-ready (from the phone call right through to the deep dives in terms of curriculum).

The handout for this session is available by clicking the handout icon on the bottom right-hand corner of the video player.

Presenter

Helen P Frostick

Former Headteacher; National Leader of Education & Educational Consultant

Helen recently retired after fifteen years of being Headteacher of St Mary Magdalen’s Catholic Primary School to pursue other interests. These include educational consultancy, journalism and school improvement projects for the Southwark diocese, including reshaping inspections once schools fully reopen post COVID.

Her career in education has been rich and rewarding with opportunities to teach overseas in Poland and Washington D.C. She has taught in a diverse range of primary schools in inner city London as well as the suburbs which bring their own unique set of challenges and rewards.

After St Mary Magdalen’s was judged an outstanding school in every area in June 2013, Helen became a national leader of education (NLE), and the school a national support school (NSS). As part of the outreach work this entailed, Helen began speaking at national conferences on the subjects of developing a creative curriculum, safeguarding, relationships and sex education (RSE) and narrowing the attainment gap for Pupil Premium Pupils. She also regularly writes educational articles for four national magazines on a range of topics.