Curriculum

The latest news and developments on school curriculum, including Ofsted subject reviews, new policy and best-practice advice for your subject

Monday

28th Apr 2025

‘Narrow’ GCSE English language needs ‘urgent’ change, says OCR
Exam board chief warns the current GCSE ‘fails to expose students to the full variety and potential of the English language’
'Narrow' English language GCSE needs to change, says OCR exam board chief

Friday

25th Apr 2025

Revealed: The most and least popular GCSE English lit texts
Schools need support to break away from An Inspector Calls to cover texts by authors from more diverse backgrounds, say experts
Books Leave Taking

Thursday

24th Apr 2025

Let’s nurture the ‘green shoots’ of curriculum creativity
Moves to bring more creativity to the classroom are to be welcomed – but how we assess these skills needs careful thought, says Pearson’s Katy Lewis
Someone painting plants

Wednesday

23rd Apr 2025

How our school’s Journalism Day teaches media literacy
A leader in Kenya explains his school’s innovative approach to equipping students with the skills to spot fake news
Fake news with ripped newspaper and robot
Why subjects need their own take on the ‘cogsci revolution’
While the use of cognitive science research can aid teaching, it needs to be filtered and combined with the unique demands of individual subjects, argue Mike Hobbiss and Paul Cline
Why subjects need their own take on the ‘cog-sci’ revolution

Saturday

19th Apr 2025

RE: the Cinderella subject that needs to go to the ball
Religious education is often an afterthought, but it’s a subject that can have a profound, important impact on understanding the world, says this former senior Ofsted inspector
Religious books with glass slipper book ends

Friday

18th Apr 2025

S6 is a hard sell for Scottish schools - so what can they do?
Even if students have already achieved the grades they need for university, the final year of secondary school in Scotland can still be hugely rewarding, explains Alan Gillespie
Carrot on string
Maths: a return to prominence, but problems remain
With curriculum reform looming, it’s time to consider what young people need from the maths qualifications of the future, says this trust maths lead
Numbers on top of a mountain

Wednesday

16th Apr 2025

MFL: students need to see our subject as their ticket to the world
The key to boosting uptake of MFL in schools is creating the space for students to see that learning a language is enjoyable and focusing on cultural capital, says this teacher and leader
Assorted travel tickets to foreign countries

Tuesday

15th Apr 2025

Chemistry: a packed curriculum crushes passion for the subject
Engagement and enjoyment are coming second to whizzing through exam specifications in chemistry, warns head of science David Fairclough
Chemistry experiment test tubes

Sunday

13th Apr 2025

PSHE: the struggle to avoid a crisis-driven curriculum
Headline-grabbing moments like the current buzz around TV’s Adolescence can lead to knee-jerk PSHE approaches, but this does students a disservice, writes Astrea Academy Trust’s Charlotte Cooper
Someone comforting another

Saturday

12th Apr 2025

1 in 3 primary teachers have ‘little or no influence’ on lesson content
Standardised curriculum packages are ‘imposed’, have ‘no meaningful workload gains’ and can lead teachers to quit, NEU report finds
A new report shows the impact of standardised curriculum packages on teachers.