Curriculum, Assessment & Teaching Community

Welcome to our community

This community is led by David Bailey FCCT. David is one of the Directors of Newham Learning and has supported many schools to evaluate and develop their curriculum, assessment and teaching.

Who is this suitable for?

• Head Teachers (and equivalent), Senior Leaders with responsibility for curriculum 

How does it work?

This group aims to support schools as they plan for the reformed assessment curriculum, commencing September 2028.

What does it involve?

Members of this group will be able to attend curriculum, assessment and teaching focused session online.

Members of this community can access a range of materials to support this group, including access to training videos, articles and other resources via the link at the bottom of this page.

Cost
This group is free to member schools and is only available to members of Newham Learning.

To sign up for this community and receive updates, please visit: https://forms.gle/1dJhdnGfmmL1jqF76

Please note that this link will not sign you up to attend the meetings. To sign up, please see the link below.

You may also be interested in the following Special Interest Groups:

• Assessment: https://www.newhamlearning.co.uk/communities/special-interest-groups/assessment

• Pedagogy & Practice: https://www.newhamlearning.co.uk/communities/special-interest-groups/pedagogy-practice

• Policy: The National Curriculum (DfE, 2013)

• Report: Curriculum and Assessment Review: interim report (DfE, 2025)

• What to expect on a primary deep dive – some guidance for subject leaders (Ofsted, 2022)

• Development Matters (non-statutory curriculum guidance for EYFS) (2021)

• No Simple Solutions to Complex Problems (Yan, Sana & Carvalho, 2024)

• Article: Perspectives on curriculum design: comparing the spiral and the network models (Ireland & Mouthaan, 2020)

• Article: Kaizen Perspective in Curriculum Development (Duran & Mertol, 2020)

• Video: Rethinking Curriculum (Chartered College of Teaching)

• Video: Strong Foundations 1 - Why early education is so important (Ofsted, Jan 2026)

• Video: Strong Foundations 2 - A curriculum by design not chance (Ofsted, Jan 2026)

• Video: Strong Foundations 3 - The importance of language development (Ofsted, Jan 2026)

• Video: Strong Foundations 4 - Inspecting nursery provision in schools (Ofsted, Jan 2026)

• Video: Strong Foundations 5 - SEND (Ofsted, Jan 2026)

• Video: Strong Foundations 6 - Early reading (Ofsted, Jan 2026)

• Video: Strong Foundations 7 - Early writing matters (Ofsted, Jan 2026)

• Video: Strong Foundations 8 - Early mathematics (Ofsted, Jan 2026)

• Video: Strong Foundations 9 - Physical development (Ofsted, Jan 2026)

• Video: Strong Foundations 10 - Foundational knowledge and older pupils (Ofsted, Jan 2026)

• Video: Knowledge in the Curriculum (Newham Learning, 2024)

• Video: Curriculum & Subject Leadership (Ofsted, 2023)

• Video: Deep Dives: 3 perspectives (Newham Learning, 2022)

• Video: Ofsted's curriculum research (Ofsted, 2018)

• Podcast: Ofsted and the curriculum (Ofsted, 2023)

• Podcast: Evidence into Action: Talking the talk: subject-specific talk across the curriculum (EEF, 2025)

Ofsted subject-specific reading and videos:

• Computing: Ofsted Curriculum Research Document

• English: Ofsted Curriculum Research Document

• Geography: Ofsted Curriculum Research Document, Ofsted Curriculum Insights Video

• History: Ofsted Curriculum Research Document, Ofsted Curriculum Insights Video

• Languages: Ofsted Curriculum Research Document

• Maths: Ofsted Curriculum Research Document

• Music: Ofsted Curriculum Research Document, Ofsted Curriculum Insights Video

• Physical Education: Ofsted Curriculum Research Document, Ofsted Curriculum Insights Video

• Personal Development: Ofsted Curriculum Insights

• Religious Education: Ofsted Curriculum Research Document 

• Science: Ofsted Curriculum Research Document

(coming soon)

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

• Action plan template (pdf)

• Action plan template (docx)

• Case study template (pdf)

• Case study template (pptx)

• 'Coaching Deep Dive with NL' - Sue Ferguson, Ellen Wilkinson Primary

• 'Action planning' - Steven Carbutt, Star Primary

• 'Discover Journals' - Jessica Hyde, William Davies Primary

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