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Series: ECM Curriculum Contributions
ECM Curriculum Contributions - Primary
95+VAT
Aug 09
978 1 84070 837 0Real help with meeting the outcomes
The Government’s Every Child Matters (ECM) agenda is now at the heart of the Ofsted inspection framework that came into force in September 2009. 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 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 teacher receives a list of the relevant National Curriculum strands which meet the Every Child Matters outcomes in each subject. They can indicate which strands are already included in their teaching, 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 English to ‘respond to others appropriately, taking into account what they 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