{"id":1025,"date":"2016-03-07T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2016-03-08T14:29:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T14:29:38","slug":"head-of-muir-ps-continues-to-develop-their-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/IDLCentral\/2016\/03\/07\/head-of-muir-ps-continues-to-develop-their-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of Muir PS continues to develop their curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"WP_20160304_010[1]\"<\/a>\u00a0On Friday 2nd March 2016, Fiona Anderson, head teacher, shared current developments\u00a0with the curriculum framework and interdisciplinary learning at Head of Muir PS.<\/p>\n

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Fiona used extensive data from her consultation of stakeholders to\u00a0shape\u00a0the school\u00a0rationale. Parents placed great store on literacy and numeracy, which\u00a0resulted in a curriculum framework where these are seen as separate, but integrated where beneficial (see her quick visual\u00a0curriculum overview\u00a0above). Staff at Head of Muir therefore teach these key subjects\u00a0discretely, using interdisciplinary and subject specific contexts where these are advantageous to pupils.<\/p>\n

\"WP_20160304_003[1]\"<\/a>During previous collegiate sessions, staff defined which experiences and outcomes\u00a0were naturally\u00a0covered during everyday parts of school life\u00a0in order to capture and build their Ethos and Life of their School as a Community. These were things like, school assemblies and performances, circle time, eco groups, etc. Many of these related to Health and Well-Being and have\u00a0been grouped and bundled to help staff\u00a0in their next steps with\u00a0tracking progress of these.<\/p>\n

\"WP_20160304_002[1]\"<\/a>Nursery staff worked with Fiona to do\u00a0the same\u00a0for the nursery setting\u00a0(see pic left). As they worked, clear bundles emerged which will now shape nursery planning and help align it with early level in primary 1. This will ensure greater coherence and progression from 3 – 12.<\/p>\n

At the latest inset day, staff used the experiences and outcomes with the significant aspects of learning and progression framework statements to define\u00a0groups which they felt were more powerful taught together. They tried to do this without linking expressly to contexts such as World War II, so that teachers would have more professional autonomy, and would be better placed to respond to the prior learning and interests of their pupils. \"WP_20160304_005[1]\"<\/a>Staff at Head of Muir PS are trialling the pupil-led planning sheets originally developed by colleagues at Stirling Council. The examples\u00a0pictured show how these plans are influenced by the interests of pupils, and how they develop over time.<\/p>\n

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At the end of this blog post please click the video screen to hear what Louise in primary 7 thinks of this planning.<\/p>\n

The bundling exercise is\u00a0building the contexts\/aspects of interdisciplinary learning and discrete curricular areas and subjects within Head of Muir PS. Fiona and her senior manager colleagues will streamline the bundles to create progressive frameworks which ensure progression and coverage across all four contexts.\u00a0She \u00a0intends to work with staff to explore\u00a0how skills are progressed through their bundles,\u00a0to\u00a0work towards ensuring\u00a0that learning is\u00a0progressive and challenging for\u00a0every pupil.\u00a0Like many other schools in our authority and across the country, these processes\u00a0also aim to\u00a0reduce workload and increase\u00a0the efficiency of planning,\u00a0tracking and monitoring processes. By working collegiately from their curriculum rationale, staff are building a shared understanding of what makes their school unique, AND basing this on reflective self-evaluation.<\/p>\n

\"Louise\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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