Curriculum Concerns

The National Curriculum is currently under significant review, and the changes made are likely to be hard hitting. On the one hand schools are promised more freedom in what they will teach, and how they will deliver it, but there is also a strong indication that in some areas there will be far more direction than ever before. Our main concern at GALEducation is that the curriculum will be so knowledge based that there will be little room for the development of the key life skills that most of our children so desperately need … independence, persistence, problem solving …..

With the new freedoms we are also promised that teachers will be able to devise their own objectives when planning lessons – it’s been a long time coming, but how welcome it is! This raises one further question for school leaders and teachers, however: will all teachers and schools have the flexibility to be able to respond to these freedoms, or have many of us lost the ability to be able to take a creative approach to planning and delivery?

I have huge confidence that schools will be able to respond positively to the changes, on the condition that the DFE continues to uphold the professional role of teachers, and to treat this role with the respect it deserves. Your responses to us would be welcome!

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About the author

After graduating from Durham University in 2001 with an honours degree in Education, Tom worked in a range of primary school settings for over 8 years; the latter of which he spent on the senior leadership team as Year 3 teacher, acting assistant head and leader of assessment and PE. He now manages the business end of GAL Education which includes marketing, school liaison, project management and much, much more!

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