National Curriculum: from Policy to Practice

This booklet was written to provide a guide to the National Curriculum for students in compulsory education, those aged five to sixteen. Published in 1989, it examines the legal requirements of the curriculum in the light of the Education Reform Act (ERA) of 1988. Chapters aim: • to show how the ERA requirements relate to thinking about the curriculum over the last two decades • to set the National Curriculum in the context of the whole school curriculum • to describe and explain the ways in which the National Curriculum and related requirements affect practice in schools. [b]1. Introduction[/b] [b]2. The curriculum 5-16[/b] The whole curriculum 5-16 The basic curriculum [b]3· The National Curriculum[/b] General The components of the National Curriculum The foundation subjects as part of the whole curriculum Cross-curricular issues and other subjects Attainment targets, programmes of study and assessment arrangements in relation to key stages [b]4· Implementing the National Curriculum[/b] The foundation subjects Religious education Cross-curricular issues and other subjects Subject options in key stage 4 The foundation subjects and TVEI Attainment targets and programmes of study [b]5· Developing and maintaining the curriculum[/b] Reviewing and updating Experiments and curriculum development [b]6. Assessment arrangements[/b] The purposes of assessment Elements of the national assessment system Relationship with GCSE Recording for reporting Timetable for assessment arrangements [b]7· Providing information[/b] Why provide information? What will be required? [b]8. Children with Special Educational Needs[/b] General Meeting different needs within the statutory framework Adapting the statutory requirements Modifications and disapplications made by Orders or regulations Revising statements of special educational needs Temporary exceptions for individual pupils Hospital schools [b]9· Who does what?[/b] General Designing the National Curriculum Preparing for implementation INSET etc Making the National Curriculum work Monitoring and evaluation Revising and updating [b]10. Working with statutory requirements[/b] [b]11. When does it happen?[/b]