Webinar: SECONDARY: A new frontier: developing a fit-for-purpose curriculum to prepare students to be successful by MA Education

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About This Webinar

This workshop will provide an overview of our own curriculum development journey, including practical advice on redesigning a curriculum and insights into the lessons learned. It will explore barriers faced when managing a curriculum review and discuss solutions. And it will reflect on how you could use a range of take away strategies in your own context. This workshop will consider how this process has worked in practice and offer an honest overview supported by good quality evidence, including practical advice on redesigning a curriculum and insights into the lessons learned. Discussions will include: auditing subjects against the national curriculum, the creation of whole-school and subject-level action plans, careful sequencing of knowledge and skills, creating a curriculum vision, factoring in cultural capital, effective assessment, and building up to implementation/delivery. The Radclyffe School is a maintained 11-16 comprehensive school with 1,500 students in Oldham, Greater Manchester.

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Presenters

Livvy Black

Assistant Headteacher (Responsibility for Quality of Education, CPD and Curriculum Development), Deputy Headteacher, (Curriculum, Standards and Achievement), The Radclyffe School, Oldham

Livvy has worked in several secondary schools over the last 15 years where the contrasting settings have given her an insight into educational change as each of the schools were focused on their own improvement journey. She joined the Radclyffe School in January 2015 as an assistant headteacher with responsibility for learning and teaching and in 2018 successfully gained an MA in Educational Leadership. The changes to the Ofsted framework and a shift in Educational thinking around an understanding of how student learn provided Livvy with an opportunity to work alongside their deputy headteacher to review and develop the curriculum for implementation in September 2020; together they have planned and designed a well sequenced curriculum to support students knowing and remembering more. Their systematic and evidence-based approach has supported subject leaders and teaching staff throughout the journey from intent to implementation and has ensured that they are able to respond and adapt to changes in the educational landscape – even a global pandemic!

Matt Halls

Deputy Headteacher, (Curriculum, Standards and Achievement), The Radclyffe School, Oldham

Matt is a deputy headteacher at The Radclyffe School, secondary school in Oldham with 1500 students. He has been teaching in schools in and around the Manchester area for 20 years. Matt has spent a number of those years as an assistant headteacher with a number of roles but with a specific focus on assessment, recording and reporting. His move into deputy headship has coincided with the introduction of the Ofsted 2019 Framework, and the renewed focus the curriculum. He has up-to-date experience of leading the school’s work in thinking about and developing the curriculum.