Rethinking Curriculum webinar series #RethinkingCurriculum
Pupil voice and agency has often been associated with secondary provision but join us to hear how this can guide your curriculum and give all of your pupils the power in their learning.
We will bring together a group of expert practitioners and researchers to discuss agency and pupil voice in the curriculum, with an opportunity for discussion and questions for all audience members to learn about the why, how and what next in the implementation of primary curriculum based on pupil agency.
It will be particularly valuable to primary teachers, those involved in curriculum design more broadly, and all educators who want to learn about pupil agency and voice in practice.
This is being shared with you as part of ‘Rethinking Curriculum’, a project aiming to support and equip teachers and school leaders with the knowledge and skills to identify, plan and implement curriculum development work in a sustainable, context specific and impactful approach.
Rethinking Curriculum Project – chartered.college
About the session
This webinar is part of a series around curriculum enrichment in primary schools as part of the extensive project for the Chartered College, Rethinking Curriculum. This aims to support and equip teachers and school leaders with the knowledge and skills to identify, plan and implement curriculum development work in a sustainable, creative and place based approach. This will mean that all pupils will have access to an expansive, inspiring curriculum that connects them with local communities and enables them to lead healthy, fulfilled lives.
Our webinar series around curriculum enrichment aims to bring experts around curriculum implementation with a variety of foci from youth social action, play, oracy, pupil agency, sustainability and many more. This series will be brought to you over the academic year 2023-24 and will aim to share from experts and allow attendees to discuss and ask questions. You will also have resources from the project pilot made available to you in relation to the webinar topics.
Event attendees will have access not just to the event itself but to supporting materials and resources in order to start discussions in their settings.
Recommended reading: To follow
The session will be hosted by Jenna Crittenden ( Curriculum Design Lead and part of the Professional Learning and Accreditation team) from the Chartered College of Teaching ,our guests TBC. This will include the opportunity for attendees to pose their own questions to our guest panel around their experiences in implementing social action in primary schools.
Speakers:
- Professor Alison Body, is a Senior Lecturer in Philanthropic Studies & Social Policy at the University of Kent, where she leads the MA Philanthropic Studies programme. With over a decade of experience working in children’s charities and local government, her research focuses on children’s civic education and the role of education in fostering philanthropic and socially oriented young citizens. Alison’s work examines how children ‘learn to give’ and how charities influence education. She authored “Children’s Charities in Crisis: Early Intervention and the State” and is set to release “Children as Change-Makers: Unleashing Children’s Real Philanthropic Power” in Autumn 2024. She currently leads a national ESRC-funded project exploring active citizenship in primary education.
- Karl Cross ( Learning and standards lead at Barrowford Primary School in Lancashire) & Rachel Tomlinson (Headteacher of Barrowford Primary School in Lancashire)
- Emmanuel Awoyelu, is a former Assistant Head Teacher & SENCO in the UK and is currently working as an Inclusion Specialist and Consultant in the Middle East. He is the director of The Reach Out Project, a mentoring program that supports young boys who are disengaged from school. Manny is an avid writer and public speaker who uses his experience in both special schools and mainstream education to support schools and educators on inclusive practice
