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Implementing a knowledge-rich curriculum
Understand what a knowledge-rich curriculum is and prepare for common challenges you might face when implementing one. See approaches from 3 schools to help you get started.
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What makes a successful knowledge-rich curriculum?
The DfE says that, taught well, a knowledge-rich curriculum:
- Focuses on the essential building blocks of knowledge required on the path from novice to expert (rather than how to ‘think like an expert’)
- Teaches pupils about the struggles and achievements of people from all races
- Is diverse and inclusive
- Provides pupils with the knowledge they need to understand, to challenge and to form their own opinions
Ofsted describes a knowledge-led approach as curriculum leaders deciding on “the invaluable knowledge that they want their pupils to know”.
The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) says that “a successful knowledge-rich curriculum should be designed to help pupils remember what they have been taught”.
How 3 schools have approached this
How a primary school has planned a knowledge-rich curriculum
What a knowledge-rich curriculum means to the school How the school has planned and structured
- Anti-racism: how to review and re-frame your curriculum
- Bloom's Taxonomy: summaries
- Classroom displays: effective practice
- Covering LGBT content in your curriculum
- Curriculum accessibility for pupils with SEND: checklist
- Curriculum audit: gender and LGBTQ+ inclusivity
- Curriculum maps: templates and examples
- Curriculum provision in PRUs and APs
- English genres in the National Curriculum
- How to design a curriculum
- How to promote British values across your school
- How to review your curriculum
- PE teaching hours: guidance and examples
- Quality first teaching: guidance
- Relationships and sex education (RSE): curriculum audit
- Requests to withdraw a pupil from RE
- School reopening and getting learning back on track: where to start
- Whole-school curriculum audit
- Withdrawing pupils from subjects
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