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CLJ News March 2009 |
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The leading skills-based creative curriculum for all primary schools |
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The NEC Education Show |
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Resources |
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The Rose Review (interim) |
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The Creative Learning Journey continues |
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| Our vision is based on the principles of ‘Excellence and Enjoyment’ and ‘Every Child Matters’. CLJ aims to underpin, support and improve children’s learning in the basic skills resulting in staff and pupils being enthused about teaching and learning in cross-curricular themes. |
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 The NEC Education Show
26th - 28th March 2009
See it,
Try it,
Teach it
The Education Show 2009 is the UK’s largest showcase of educational resources of all kinds. It enables educators to see what is new, try out resources and take part in free CPD so that they can teach and manage learning more effectively. In order to enable this, the Show will focus on key themes such as: |
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The core curriculum subjects of English, Mathmatics, Science and ICT |
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Leadership and management curriculum change at all stages |
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The Creative Learning Journey
welcomes you to visit us on STAND EC-Q60 |
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See on-line demonstrations and discuss how easy it is for the CLJ to help you … and your pupils.
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| Resources |
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| We have created a new on-line resources section within the planning wheels to Help plan your activities and resources. We hope that you will help us expand this section by adding useful activities to the hundreds already listed |
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| This simple to use search tool helps teachers find resources and activities, saving hours of time. |
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| The Rose Review |
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| Curriculum design and content |
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| A design for the curriculum is proposed, which promotes challenging subject teaching alongside equally challenging cross-curricular studies. Given the excellent examples of both of these approaches observed by the Review, high quality subject teaching must not disappear from primary schools, nor should the benefits to children of well-planned cross-curricular studies. To this end, six areas of learning are proposed to give schools optimum flexibility for planning cross-curricular studies, and ample opportunities to teach essential content discretely and directly. The Review also considers how far the existing division between ‘core’ and ‘foundation’ subjects remains valid in a curriculum geared to providing breadth and balance. |
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| The CLJ Review |
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| CLJ already organises the Primary Curriculum into the six areas of learning that underpin the curriculum in the Foundation stage. This means that children’s learning is built up from the roots of the early years rather than being a top-down imposition of subject-led learning from the secondary sector. Children do not learn ‘subjects’ they learn ‘about’ things and do not recognise or need to recognise the demarcations between disciplines. However, the integrity of each subject is maintained because the teacher is still delivering the Programmes of Study (POS) and can keep a high standard of learning through the focus on skills rather than content. |
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| A comprehensive review comparison can be viewed on our web site www.thecreativelearningjourney.co.uk |
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| The Creative Learning Journey Ltd. Unit 77, Riverside 3, Sir Thomas Longley Road, Rochester, Kent ME2 4BH |
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| tel: 01634 716222 ------ web: www.thecreativelearningjourney.co.uk ------ email: sales@thecreativelearningjourney.co.uk |