Led by NACE Associate and Trustee Christabel Shepherd, this one-day course explores key principles and approaches to effective curriculum design and implementation to ensure challenge for all learners in the primary phases.

Delegates are asked to bring their current school policy for more able learners, curriculum policy (if available), and relevant extracts of their school development plan.

This workshop is aimed at:

• School leaders
• Senior and middle leaders
• More able coordinators/leads
• Curriculum and subject leaders
• Directors of teaching and learning

08.45am

• Coffee and registration

09.00am

• Outcomes and content for the day

Designing your curriculum

• Where can a curriculum designed to challenge and enrich more able learners lead?
• Designing the curriculum
• What do more able learners need in general?
• Considering more able learners in your school’s context: What do your more able learners need? Using context to shape curriculum.
• What will a curriculum built upon the identified experiences and addressing the identified deficits look like?

10.30am

• Break

10.45am

Meeting the needs of more able learners - the how and what of curriculum implementation

• In-depth look at the pedagogy for the curriculum to meet the needs of more able learners and ensure challenge for all
• Practical approaches to ensure there is challenge across the curriculum and rich opportunities for enrichment
• Reflecting curriculum approaches in policy

12.15pm

• Lunch

1.00pm

Reviewing and evaluating your curriculum

2.30pm

Reflections, key takeaways and next steps

3.00pm

• Close