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  • Support for early career teachers
  • Teach First
  • Year 1: Second half-term: how to design a coherent curriculum

    • Related Early Career Framework strands

    Subject and curriculum

    3.3 Ensuring pupils master foundational concepts and knowledge before moving on is likely to build pupils’ confidence and help them succeed.

    3.5 Explicitly teaching pupils the knowledge and skills they need to succeed within particular subject areas is beneficial.

    3.7 In all subject areas, pupils learn new ideas by linking those ideas to existing knowledge, organising this knowledge into increasingly complex mental models (or “schemata”); carefully sequencing teaching to facilitate this process is important.

    3a. Identifying essential concepts, knowledge, skills and principles of the subject and providing opportunity for all pupils to learn and master these critical components.

    3g. Revisiting the big ideas of the subject over time and teaching key concepts through a range of examples.

    3o. Teaching unfamiliar vocabulary explicitly and planning for pupils to be repeatedly exposed to high-utility and high-frequency vocabulary in what is taught.