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This Teacher Bulletin includes information about how you can contribute to the Curriculum and Assessment Review,
as well as a reminder about the flexible working toolkit, workload and wellbeing resources.
What's new
Curriculum and Assessment Review
Spanning from Key Stage 1 through to Key Stage 5, the
Curriculum
and Assessment Review will look closely at the key challenges to attainment for young people, and the barriers which hold children back from the opportunities and
life chances they deserve – in particular those who are socioeconomically disadvantaged, or with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND).
The review is seeking the views of young people, parents, teachers and leaders, education experts and employers
on the strengths and weaknesses of the current system and how it can be improved.
As such, the
call
for evidence launched today - we encourage you to take part and share your views and insight, based on your own experiences, by filling in the survey before the deadline
on 22 November 2024.
As well as the
call
for evidence, there will be regional roadshows, sector roundtables, polling of parents, and expert panels, across the next few months, to ensure the review is informed
by a diverse range of perspectives. Read
more about the consultation and it's role in the review.
A message from the Chair of the Curriculum and Assessment Review, Professor Becky Francis CBE
“Understanding your views and the evidence and experiences that underpin them will be crucial in informing
the review. We have deliberately kept questions as open as possible, and welcome responses from all those interested: young people, and their parents, teachers, lecturers, education leaders, subject experts, researchers, employers and others.
The curriculum represents our society’s collective investment in conferring our precious knowledge and
skills for the younger generation, so that they in turn may flourish as individuals and as citizens that build our civil society and economy. It is right that we all have a say.”
Helpful resources and guidance
Reminder: Flexible working
We have published non-statutory guidance alongside a flexible working toolkit, which includes practical resources
to help school leaders to implement flexible working and to support school staff to request it. We have produced these resources in partnership with school leaders and other sector experts.
We are also delivering a programme focused on embedding flexible working in schools and trusts. This includes
supportive webinars and peer support provided by flexible working ambassador schools and trusts. Webinars cover a range of topics including timetabling and making a flexible working request.
Reminder: Workload resources
You can find out what other schools are doing to reduce teacher workload by taking a look at the
‘Improve
workload and wellbeing for school staff service’.
It is full of resources and case studies created by teachers and school leaders. You can also share your own resources and successes by visiting the
‘share
your ideas’ section on the site.
Reminder: The education staff wellbeing charter
The education staff wellbeing charter is a declaration of support and a set of commitments from the department,
Ofsted, schools and colleges, to prioritise, protect and promote the wellbeing and mental health of everyone working in education.
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