On 20 May 2003, the Secretary of State launched Excellence and Enjoyment - A
Strategy for Primary Schools which set out the vision for the future of primary education
built on what we have already achieved. This vision is for a sector where high standards
are obtained through a rich, varied and exciting curriculum which develops children in a
range of ways.
The key to making this vision a reality lies in:
- Empowering primary schools to take control of their curriculum, and to
be more innovative and to develop their own character.
- Schools setting their own targets for Level 4 and 5 at Key Stage 2, based on
challenging but realistic targets for the progress of each child in the school, with
LEA targets being set afterwards.
- Trialling a new approach of supported teacher assessment at KS1, where tests
underpin teacher assessment rather than being reported separately.
- Encouraging schools to network together and learning from others in sharing
and developing good practice.
- Partnership with parents, which is vital in helping children to do as well as
they can, and making wider links with the community.
- Government acting more and more as an enabler with schools increasingly
in control of the support they get to:
- strengthen leadership, particularly leadership of teaching, and professional
development to help teachers embed the principles of effective teaching and learning
both in literacy and numeracy and across the curriculum
- help schools design broad and rich curricula which make the most of links
between different areas and provide opportunities for children to have a wide range
of learning experiences
Copies of Excellence and Enjoyment - A Strategy for Primary Schools are
being distributed to all primary schools shortly. Find out more
about what the document means for teachers and schools.
If you would like to comment on Excellence and Enjoyment - A Strategy for
Primary Schools please email firstname.lastname@example.org
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