Curriculum Community

Welcome to our Curriculum community (click to expand)

This group aims to support school leaders with embedding a comprehensive, rich and engaging curriculum. This group also supports curriculum innovation and will help schools develop their approaches in a disciplined way.

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Head Teachers of member schools are automatically members of this community.

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Curriculum Network

Reading & Research

Videos & Podcasts

Engaging with the wider community

Support with implementation

Case studies

Curriculum Network

The meeting dates for 2025-26 will take place on Thursday mornings between 10:15 and 11:00 online, following the Newham Learning HT KIT.

Autumn Term - 18 Sep 2025 10:15 – 11:00, online
Autumn Term – 20 Nov 2025 10:15 – 11:00, online
Spring Term – 22 Jan 2026 10:15 – 11:00, online
Spring Term – 19 Mar 2026 10:15 – 11:00, online
Summer Term – 18 Jun 2026 10:15 – 11:00, online

Head Teachers of Newham Learning schools are automatically a member of this group.

Read this... (click to expand)

What to expect on a primary deep dive – some guidance for subject leaders (Ofsted, 2022)
Development Matters (non-statutory curriculum guidance for EYFS) (2021)
The Ofsted Inspection Framework (Ofsted, 2019)
An investigation into how to assess the quality of education... (Ofsted, 2018)

Watch/listen to this... (click to expand)

Knowledge in the Curriculum (Newham Learning, 2024)
Curriculum & Subject Leadership (Ofsted, 2023)
Deep Dives: 3 perspectives (Newham Learning, 2022)
Planning a Curriculum in the current climate (Ofsted, 2021)
What it means to 'know your subject' (Ofsted, 2021)
Using the curriculum as a benchmark (Ofsted, 2021)
Planning and sequencing a curriculum (Ofsted, 2018)
Curriculum research (Ofsted, 2018)

Engage with the wider community... (click to expand)

(coming soon)

Plan with this... (click to expand)

Guidance Documents

Putting Evidence to Work (Implementation Guidance) (EEF, 2024)

Videos

A schools' guide to Implementation - Animation (EEF, 2024)
Newham Learning: Implementation (Newham Learning, 2022)

Templates

Share your success... (click to expand)

News... (click to expand)

FFT Education Data Lab - Inspection has become tougher for primary schools (2022)

Engaging with Newham Learning Communities (click to expand)

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