Transcript The Creative Learning Journey Overview

The Creative Learning Journey
an introduction . . .
ALL In One Resource
Confidence in your curriculum is critical for the success of your children,
your staff and your whole school. That is why the CLJ is designed to help
children learn essential knowledge and skills and develop an
understanding of a broad range of curriculum subjects. In addition, the
CLJ focuses on developing the personal qualities children need to be
good citizens.
The skills-based creative curriculum meets all
the requirements you need to cover the
National Curriculum, Every Child Matters
Programme, Excellence and Enjoyment, SEAL
and allows you to share resources and
activities with schools throughout the UK.
Other Resources available: 2/3/4 form; Infant; Junior; Mixed age; Small school; SEN
The thematic wheels module allows you to choose the skills you wish to cover from six areas of
learning that are uniquely linked to the National Curriculum statements and automatically
tracked for each teacher throughout the academic year. You have the freedom and flexibility to
add the activities and resources that you are going to use. Access to hundreds of shared topic
wheels created by CLJ schools throughout the UK provide a complete library of ideas, content
and knowledge.
The planning module allows you to import each wheel that you have created directly into your
daily, weekly, termly or annual plans. This gives the school a cohesive year overview plan.
The assessment module
Allows you to track the progress of
individuals, or whole classes against
the skills and national curriculum
levels.
Easily monitored by adding
comments and with a visual
colour-coded traffic light system.
You can easily generate a wide
range of reports, ensuring pupil
progress and academic attainment.
The Creative Learning Journey makes it easy to manage all aspects of your curriculum, from
creating cross-curricular topics, to short and medium term planning, to generating end of year
reports for pupils.
•Winner of the Leading Aspect Award
•Highly recommended in many schools’
Ofsted reports
•Constantly reviewed and updated in line with
latest educational guidelines and policies
What teachers say . . .
National Curriculum
Preparing for the future – instant tracking of National Curriculum coverage.
Once again the future is bringing changes to the Primary curriculum and the Creative Learning
Journey is already ahead of the game.
The latest innovation links the skills to the existing National Curriculum so that as the skills are
ticked during the planning process coverage of the National Curriculum is automatically
recorded. This means that planning, tracking and recording are all completed in one operation.
Print out the NC coverage – be it the current one or any future one – and schools can be
reassured about what has/has not been covered and have evidence to support their work.
Schools can begin to design their own curriculum ensuring progression and avoiding repetition.
The number of times each skill has been used is also recorded providing invaluable information
to inform future action.
CLJ . . . and the future
CLJ remains committed to supporting schools in delivering a creative curriculum. The current CLJ
resources meet every aspect of the National Curriculum, we are constantly reviewing all aspects
of the resource against the National Curriculum.
We will ensure that the Creative Learning Journey can be used and will always be in line with
any revised National Curriculum and/or current Government legislation.
2) Add your learning
opportunities and activities
1) Tick the
appropriate skills
3) Discrete Units
select coverage of essential
skills for Learning & Life
and overarching
dimensions
All skills are automatically
linked and tracked to the
National Curriculum
What Ofsted say...
• Puts you back in charge of your curriculum, facilitating a skills-based approach.
• Makes it easy to manage the whole teaching cycle, from initial planning to
generating end of year reports.
• Automatically tracks both the skills taught and the National Curriculum
coverage
• Provides certainty (and proof) that you have covered
all National Curriculum statements.
• Is proven to raise standards.
• Constantly reviewed and updated to ensure it is in line with latest educational
policy and thinking.
• Allows easy planning for mixed age/ability classes.
• Gives you access to the teaching plans of thousands of other teachers, saving you
planning time.
• A complete planned, yet flexible curriculum.
• A creative and consistent approach to teaching all
subjects from early years to year 6.
• Now being extended to include year 7.
Special Educational Needs Resources
Through the continued success of The Creative Learning Journey we have been aware of the need to
encompass groups of children and schools that require some special attention and a different level of skill
sets to help with their specific educational requirements.
The SEN curriculum takes the P scales 1 to 8 and breaks them down into 5 levels within each of the 6 areas of
learning and then into skill sets.
The SEN curriculum gives you all the skills from P levels to year 6, EYFS stage into key stage 1 and key stage 2.
This allows for the continuation of inclusion and personalised programmes of learning for every child, giving
the chance for equality of opportunity for all pupils. A curriculum to meet the needs of every child.
The SEN school resource consists of :
ON LINE wheels personal development programme
ON LINE Planning
On LINE Pupil skills personal assessment programme
The SEN resource gives you a complete inclusion development programme with all the skills to allow you to
be creative, integrating all pupils with special needs into a mainstream creative curriculum, helping them to
achieve their full potential.
Training
The CLJ team appreciates setting up and using any new curriculum can be very time consuming, therefore
we offer a complete in-service training, tailored to your school’s requirements and needs.
CLJ has a strong reputation for delivering high quality training and consultancy. The schools we work with
know that they will receive a bespoke service delivered by high quality people who care.
CLJ will take the time to find out exactly what you want and how you want it delivered. This means you can
be assured that you have the opportunity to make the curriculum your own.
Whether you are a small mixed age range school or a 3 form entry, the CLJ training team can visit your
school and help you to plan and implement the CLJ in the most appropriate way to meet your individual
needs.
Many schools feel that a bespoke training day in their school, with their staff needs and wants being
addressed, is invaluable. The CLJ team contact you direct to plan your in service training day – all tailored to
suit your school.
Training days tend to get booked very quickly. For further information, including cost and how to arrange a
training day, please contact CLJ direct. Please remember you do need to have ordered the CLJ resources
BEFORE booking your training day.
We can arrange a presentation in your school with the materials and a live
demonstration of the CLJ National Curriculum tracking system, or a telephone
video conference with an live on-line demonstration.
Visit us at www.thecreativelearningjourney.co.uk