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The Education Endowment Foundation Funds TCC’s Word and World Project I often hear teachers talk about wanting to ‘skill up’ their pupils, so that they might become better readers, and thus independent learners. At The Curriculum Centre, naturally, we are … Continue reading →

Regular readers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of grammar. A thorough understanding of English grammar transforms a pupil’s ability to use our language powerfully. My respect for the power of grammar came to me … Continue reading →

At the end of February, I attended a conference on MFL teaching, held at Wellington College. It was an interesting conference and many ideas were posed as to how to improve teaching, and take up of MFL at GCSE and … Continue reading →

As a student of languages it was always clear that I needed to instinctively know how to say things or I wouldn’t really be able to converse in my chosen subject. I needed to get to the point where I … Continue reading →

Last Thursday The Curriculum Centre hosted a seminar about implementing a knowledge-based curriculum. It was hosted by Bill Watkin of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust. Caroline Nash, our chair, spoke about the challenges and opportunities we have faced in … Continue reading →

In his new book Education, Education, Education, Andrew Adonis writes “No school can be better than its teachers. The best education systems in the world recruit their teachers from the top third of graduates. Transforming teacher recruitment is the most … Continue reading →

I’m a big fan of Michael Morpurgo’s work. I have read Private Peaceful with several year 7 classes and always have difficulty not crying at the end of it. About 5 years or so ago I also took a group … Continue reading →

There was an excellent article in yesterday’s Guardian about history teaching. In it, Martin Kettle argues that the English are bereft of history and that such a loss has huge and damaging social implications. Here at The Curriculum Centre we … Continue reading →

In a previous post I wrote about how I had revamped a unit on writing skills so that pupils spent more time thinking about the aims of the lesson. Is this new revamped unit as ‘fun’ as the old unit? I … Continue reading →