Roy Blatchford is founder of www.blinks.education working with schools, multi-academy trusts, colleges, universities and local authorities in the UK and internationally. He currently chairs and advises a number of Boards in the education and charity sectors. Following headships in London, Oxfordshire and Milton Keynes, he was Founding Director of the National Education Trust. He has extensive experience of writing inspection frameworks and has reviewed over 1,000 schools, colleges and faculties in Europe, India, USA, Middle and Far East. He was one of Her Majesty's Inspectors (HMI) in England, and has served as an education policy adviser to the UK and other national governments. Roy was lead author of the 'Teachers Standards' (2012) and chaired ASCL's 'The Forgotten Third' (2019). He is the author/editor of over 150 books including 'The Restless School', 'The Three Minute Leader' and 'Must Do Better'. He was appointed CBE for services to education in the 2016 New Year Honours.
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About the contributors Foreword, Roy Blatchford Part A: National and international perspectives 1. Who owns the school curriculum now? Richard Howard 2. International perspectives on the primary curriculum, Deborah Eyre 3. Schools are not islands, Tim Coulson 4. The values-led curriculum, Neil Hawkes 5. Computers in learning: challenging a few orthodoxies, Chris Yapp 6. The advent of a boutique curriculum, Rob Stokoe 7. Shaping an inspiring curriculum - home and abroad, Chris Nourse 8. Golden keys for curriculum leadership, Kathy Wood 9. Which routes for your school? Roy Blatchford Part B: Implementing the new curriculum 10. A 4 -19 curriculum imperative, Peter Hyman 11. Aspiring to a child-centred curriculum, Will Power 12. Developing independent learners, Kate Atkins 13. For the love of learning, Katy Peters 14. A tapestry curriculum, Dave Smith 15. Creating independent learners: an art or a science? Jane Ratcliffe 16. Why reading and writing are fundamental, Kate Dethridge 17. Mathematics, security and simplicity, Kate Frood
The contributors are people who understand the realities of primary education yet retain that spark of imagination and creativity about what might be possible. The book will provide that most important of opportunities - to share good practice and debate with others. I've no doubt that minds and opinions will be changed by these contributions.' Estelle Morris