The Curriculum Challenge

With the spotlight shining brightly on the Hadley Learning Community, a 60 million extended school in Telford, there is pressure on the school's leadership to deliver improved results.

This programme focuses on the progress of the HLC's leadership team as it devises a teaching and learning programme designed for the 21st century.

To complement the modern facilities, there is a need for a cross-phase curriculum which provides new opportunities for the pupils who come from a community hit hard by the decline of traditional industry.

Assistant vice principal and head of secondary phase, Paul Topping, consults the staff that compete for curriculum time with their colleagues. Meanwhile, head of primary phase, Erica Aston, engineers a new primary English curriculum.

 

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