Headteacher Update Podcast: Curriculum design in the primary school

This episode looks at the principles of effective curriculum design, offering practical advice, ideas and guidance for primary school leaders. As well as good practice, the discussion looks at curriculum design in light of Ofsted's Education Inspection Framework and its renewed focus on curriculum intent, implementation and impact. We discuss steps that school leaders can take to ensure an effective, relevant and coherent curriculum. Other themes include ensuring the curriculum is relevant to your context, creating a vision, the hidden curriculum, achieving a broad and balanced curriculum, identifying end-points and threshold concepts, diversity and inclusion, supporting subject co-ordinators and more.