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It all starts here

These videos are a great place to begin your journey towards transforming your Key Stage 3 curriculum. Watch them to get an overview of the big ideas, the research behind them and practical applications for your school.

Introducing The Ambitious Years

Steve Willshaw and Mary Myatt outline the core thinking behind why years 7 to 9 should be reframed as a foundation, not a bridge. This video can be a prompt for your own professional conversations with colleagues about creating an ambitious KS3 in your school.

Reframing demanding work

We explore common misconceptions about what pupils can manage, and what they’re actually able to achieve when the conditions are right. Find out how a high challenge low threat environment can strengthen their confidence in approaching demanding texts and open up rich ideas, vocabulary and subject knowledge.

Implementing The Ambitious Years

This video explores how The Ambitious Years resources work in practice. Mary and Steve explain how the teacher and pupil booklets and units are structured, and how they can be used flexibly by departments and curriculum teams to fit in with existing plans.