Do more, know more, remember more
This year's Curriculum Conference will focus on three themes:
Do more: how schools can implement a rich curriculum offer when budgets are ever increasingly stretched.
ASCL Funding Specialist Julia Harden will remind colleagues about the DfE’s approach to integrated curriculum financial planning (ICFP), with a focus on how new curriculum deputies or leads can work with their business manager when looking at the curriculum. While ICFP has been a feature of the system for a while, we know that since the pandemic many curriculum leads might be new to post, so what does ICFP mean for 2024?
We’ll also explore what schools are doing to deliver a rich and sustainable extra-curricular activity against this backdrop of funding restraints and teacher burnout.
Know more: we’ll consider what a knowledge-rich curriculum means in terms of inclusion and diversity, and how schools can diversify their curricula while still teaching the national curriculum. The conference will include a session on the rise of AI and what this means for knowledge-acquisition and the continued importance of ‘knowing more’. We’ll also hear from Ofsted about what a knowledge-rich curriculum means to them, and how schools can benchmark their own curriculum against the national curriculum.
Summer 2024 also marks a decade since the reforms to the national curriculum. We’ll hear from leading architects of the current national curriculum who will reflect on what’s worked well, what could have been better, and lessons for any future curriculum reforms.
Remember more: what the science of learning can tell us about curriculum sequencing, and – crucially – how school leaders can help their subject leads use cognitive science to inform or reflect on their own curriculum sequences. With leading experts in the science of learning, we’ll ask how we can help students remember what they’ve been taught through deliberate curriculum design.