How do you enable creativity and empathy without loosing 'rigour'?

The Integrated Planning Process

Introduction - Rigour ‘v' enrichment. Despite loathing the term rigour, an empty word that has numerous definitions depending on who you speak to, many teachers, Head teachers and curriculum leaders are seeking ways of integrating and enhancing current primary curriculum.

With the launch of the new six Areas of Learning within the proposed new National Curriculum for primary level in 2010+, the time is ripe for making learning purposeful to learners [and their teachers!] in their individual settings.

The original QCA schemes of work for History in schools were never designed to be an all-encompassing answer to the national curriculum for teachers to pick up and deliver.

Their original purpose was to guide schools through ways of possible segmenting the curriculum into manageable chunks. This may have been right or wrong, however what we currently need to do is look forward to the introduction of Historical, Geographical and Social Understanding Area of Learning in the proposed new national curriculum. Exciting.