Step Four: primary Subject Insights
Geography
Impact
Tom constantly evolves his curriculum journey to increase impact. In this chat he describes how he shapes his teaching with clear purpose and central threads like compassion. We also discuss how he is innovating assessment methods and impact measurement over academic year transitions.
Implementation
A wide-ranging discussion covering many aspects of implementation. Insights include how topics are blocked and cross-referenced with other subjects, written content rationales for each year group, embedding retrieval in book sections, and structured activities like brain dumps and vocab workouts.
Curriculum Intent
Hydeh talks to us about formulating a vision and how to make it happen. She describes starting from the national curriculum and school ethos to define endpoints, and then mapping backwards year by year to decide exactly which vocabulary and knowledge each cohort owns.
