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As pressures of standardised testing and the focus on English and maths impact on teaching time, how can teachers ensure that the curriculum truly is broad and balanced? How do we ensure that we are educating the whole child? This book provides both an exploration of the current challenges in the curriculum as well as practical guidance on how to tackle them. This book is needed to contextualise the current situation and to inform and inspire today's teachers to teach across the curriculum.
List of contents
Introduction: Understanding the context of children's lives: Supporting holistic education - Susan Ogier and Tony Eaude
PART 1 Understanding the context of children's lives
1. Resourcing the spirit of the child: Creativity in the contemporary classroom - Kate Thorpe
2. Creating a space for exploring self identity - Rachel Mason
3. Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development - Tony Eaude
4. Child mental health and the role of the arts - Susan Ogier
5. Philosophy and Learning to Think - Aimee Quickfall
6. Developing a supportive ethos for all learners - Carrie Winstanley
PART 2- Making Learning Meaningful: Teaching and assessing a broad and balanced curriculum
7. Learning to Enquire: The role of the humanities - Tony Eaude
8. Stranger Things in the classroom: Drawing inspiration from children's visual culture - Robert Watts
9. Writing as an art form: an author's perspective - Michael Rosen
10. Learning to thrive with nature - Tessa Willy, Richard Dunne and Emilie Martin
11. Balancing the equation - Pinky Jain
12. Connecting STEM with the Arts: because it makes sense - Susan Ogier and Nick Corston
13. Assessing the whole child - Maria Vinney
PART 3- The Reflective Teacher: Developing as a professional in the primary classroom
14. The teacher's palette: Creative and holistic learning spaces - Genea Alexander and Julie Sutton
15. The personal in the professional - Teresa Cremin
16. Differing views of Professionalism: Implications for primary teachers - Tony Eaude
17. The creative teacher: Agency and empowerment - Kate Thorpe
18. Myth busting in the contemporary primary classroom - Robert Morgan
End piece: Looking back and looking ahead - Susan Ogier and Tony Eaude
