Series: ECM Curriculum Contributions

ECM Curriculum Contributions - Secondary

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Real help with meeting the outcomes

The Government’s Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda is now at the heart of Ofsted inspections. Each school is graded in terms of the five principal outcomes:

• be healthy
• stay safe
• enjoy and achieve
• make a positive contribution
• achieve economic well-being.

These are all crucial to the safety and well-being of children. As part of the new inspection Framework, Ofsted inspectors judge how well your school is providing for each of these outcomes.

The key way for the school to deliver these outcomes is through the curriculum. The education that every child receives, the knowledge and understanding pupils develop and the experiences that they have are vital to Every Child Matters provision. However, tracking how the outcomes are covered in your school, and creating convincing documentary evidence to prove it, can be a major administrative task, and one that is very time-consuming.

Be ready for inspection

Consider the following:

• If the outcomes are already covered by your existing curriculum provision, would you be able to tell an inspector exactly how?
• Do you have a mechanism in place for every department to record their provision for Every Child Matters?
• Can you set out exactly how each of the five outcomes (and 25 subsidiary aims) are provided for across the curriculum – for every year group and key stage?
• Do you have a clear school policy in place?

A real solution

ECM Curriculum Contributions is an exciting new tool designed to help you to meet this significant challenge. Provided on CD-ROM, the resource contains everything you need to find out what the school is already doing, and what more needs to be done to satisfy Ofsted’s requirements – in either a full institutional inspection or a themed inspection on Every Child Matters. This includes:

• a sample policy and guidance on briefing staff on ECM
• guidance on collating information
• a tool for every subject to record provision
• guidance on completing your school’s self-evaluation form.

Save valuable management time

ECM Curriculum Contributions maps each of the Every Child Matters outcomes (and within each one, the appropriate subsidiary aims) to the National Curriculum strands in every subject. Every head of department receives a list of the National Curriculum strands which meet the Every Child Matters outcomes in their subject. They can indicate which strands are taught in their subject, and hence, how the Every Child Matters outcomes are covered.

Example

For example, the ECM aim to ‘develop positive relationships and choose not to bully or discriminate’ could be covered by the requirement in the English curriculum to ‘take different views into account and modify their own views in the light of what others say’.

The mapping of ECM to the curriculum provides valuable evidence. This information can then easily be used in the school’s self-evaluation form for Ofsted. The aim is to save you and your colleagues countless hours of valuable time.

Convenient digital formats

In addition to the carefully compiled guidance on how to use the tool, a range of supplementary digital files are included. These include presentation graphics and spreadsheet files. All the material is designed to be easy to use, and no installation is required – simply copy the appropriate files onto your school network.

Contents

• Introduction
• Every Child Matters
• ECM in schools
• Evaluation
• Subjects
• Resources
• Index

Other titles in the series

• ECM Curriculum Contributions - Middle/Special
• ECM Curriculum Contributions - Primary