Sequencing the Primary Curriculum
- Seamus Gibbons - Executive Headteacher, UK
- Emma Lennard - Primary Curriculum Adviser, UK
This book is an introduction to the primary curriculum for all trainee and early career teachers. It shows how to sequence and plan your teaching in every curriculum subject to ensure you are offering balanced and cohesive learning opportunities that align with the National Curriculum in England.
- Build your subject knowledge in line with the National Curriculum
- Sequence your teaching so that key curriculum content is threaded through all your lesson plans
- Explore the basics of curriculum design to support your professional development and help children to learn and remember more over time
This is essential reading for trainee teachers on primary initial teacher education courses including university-based (PGCE, BEd, BA with QTS); school-based (School Direct, SCITT, Teaching Apprenticeships) routes into teaching, and early career and experienced teachers wishing to enhance their practice.
I wish I’d had access to this kind of resource, which provides precise and definitive answers to many of our sector’s most pressing questions about the curriculum. Why should we sequence it? What benefits does it offer for children's learning? How do we execute it effectively?
Sequencing the primary curriculum offers clarity in the complex realm of primary education. For newcomers, it's a guiding light. For experienced educators, it’s a resourceful handbook. It does a great job of encapsulating the essential insights of the primary curriculum, and with justified and widespread concern about how overcrowded it is, that is no mean feat.
Important to support early career and trainee teachers in understanding the principles underpinning the effective sequencing of the curriculum to support pupil progress.
