The document outlines a comprehensive curriculum model that focuses on social justice, cultural capital, character education, and raising standards for all students. It emphasizes teaching priorities like behavior for learning, literacy, feedback, and explicit knowledge. The curriculum includes cultural experiences like trips to museums, overseas travel, and outdoor challenges. It also proposes a National Baccalaureate program that would bridge academic and technical education, create success pathways for all learners, and give value to personal development and extended study outside of examinations.

1. A Transformative
Curriculum For All
Tom Sherrington
Headteacher
Highbury Grove School
@headguruteacher
Comprehensive Ideals

3. What does a comprehensive curriculum look like…?

4. Social Justice, Cultural Capital,
Character Education, Raising the Bar???

6. • Grammar =
Knowledge
• Dialectic =
Exploration
• Rhetoric =
Communication
Enacted curriculum; pedagogy

7. Teaching and Learning Priorities for 2015/6
• Behaviour for Learning
• Speaking: structured speech events and
routines
• Literacy: explicit teaching of reading,
writing and subject specific language
• Feedback policy and practice; making
feedback count, closing the gap
• Explicit knowledge: what should be known;
how it should be learned
• Assignments

9. Cultural Capital
PP Funding supporting, core entitlements
Y6—>Y7: British Museum Family Learning Project
Y7: Paris – Language, overseas travel, culture
Y8: Ypres – Battlefields, history,
Y9: Outward Bound

10. Highbury Grove Historical Hundred…

15. …Grammar, Dialectic (logos) and
Rhetoric…..
……….physical challenges that are
authentic, that stretch each child,
and give them experiences they
would not otherwise get…

19. The National Baccalaureate

22. Why a National Bacc?
• Bridging the academic-technical divide
• Creating Pathways to Success for all learners.
• Reducing the emphasis on examinations at 16
• Giving value to Personal Development within the curriculum.
• Locating issues of examination reliability and validity in a
broader context.
• Giving value to extended personal study outside the confines of
examinations.
• Providing incentives to develop post-GCSE Maths and English
qualifications.
• Providing coherent and consistent information regarding
candidates’ achievements and personal development to
universities and employers

23. The National Baccalaureate @Highbury Grove
Final Baccalaureate Transcript.
Core Entitlement/ Requirements
Three Core A Levels or BTECs
Extended Project
(EPQ)
Personal Development
Programme:
150 Hours:
Community, Physical,
Creative, Cultural
Completion of
KS4
Best 8 GCSEs
with Ma/En
Additional A
Levels
Additional
Qualifications
and
Achievements