Teacher participation in curriculum change: Our school story

Written by: Claire Bishop
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Who we are Sir Christopher Hatton is a mixed state comprehensive school in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. We are the lead school in a small multi-academy trust and a base for the Hatton Teaching School Alliance. We are proud of the external recognition our school has received, having been graded ‘outstanding’ in 2015 and during a subsequent inspection, and are now looking at ways in which we can develop further. How our journey began As well as engaging students with the content of the statutory National Curriculum, we wanted our school curriculum to support students’ wider development, related to their values and attitudes to each other and themselves. They need to know how to work together, respect each other and value their education: high expectations and self-belief are so important. In reviewing our future development, we asked ourselves, ‘What kind of education do we want for our students?’ How it was undertaken We wanted our teachers to be involved in curricul

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