Many schools in Bristol feel the need to develop a curriculum that builds on children’s experiences.
An Integrated Curriculum has benefits for all children. It can:
Build on previous experiences, which will be more relevant to them and will motivate them in their learning as it broadens out from their experiences.
The development of specific language and vocabulary needed for the curriculum is relevant across the day/week. This is particularly beneficial to EAL children.
Different schools have approached the development of an Integrated Curriculum in different ways.
Some have started with a topic word or phrase and developed ‘spider web’ plans.
Some have started with the QCA curriculum.
Others have moved away from the QCA altogether.
Others have built on Science or Humanities as a starting point
Others have started a calendar of the year with festivals, religious and cultural events and celebrations which are then built upon.
The diversity of the planning on this website reflects all these and others.
This section contains:
Examples of teachers’ and schools’ planning - long term, medium and short term, including some lesson plans.
Resources to use in these lessons.
Teachers can use the KEY PRINCIPLES as a starting plan for ensuring the curriculum they are planning is relevant and draws on those experiences of the Ethnic Minority children, their families and communities
Teachers are able to use this website for different purposes:
To upload their own curriculum planning and resources to share with other teachers.
To look at whole school curriculum maps and see how to approach a whole school move to wards an Integrated Curriculum.
To collect/share ideas and resources for specific Schemes of Work, or lessons and adapt for their own school children and community.
