More on Creative Curriculums

There is a speech on the DfES website today about the creative curriculum.  The speech, by Parmjit Dhanda, discusses how the Gloucester Excellence Cluster is raising attainment for pupils locally – and indeed beyond - through the City Curriculum. Its philosophy of hands on learning – children discovering for themselves how things work rather than just taking someone else’s word for it – is a sound principle for life as well as a route to good qualifications. And the ‘do less, but do it really well’ motto is making school less like hard work for both teachers and pupils.

Teachers TV already have a programme showing how the 'City Curriculum' has been implemented into Geography as well as another with two teachers explaining the curriculum. 

This type of curriculum is already common in primary school now, we're coming to the end of our first year of using the Bexley model.   But how is the fact that a number of primary schools in England are to become specialists - in the way that most secondary schools are now - as part of a pilot scheme from next term?

34 schools in clusters in different parts of England will specialise in music, modern languages, science, art and sport, and aim to hit raised test result targets.  Each cluster will get an initial £10,000, plus £65 per pupil for four years, £25,000 in sponsorship and £50,000 in capital funding.