During your Phase 2 placement, you will need to find out about your individual school’s curriculum. The document attached above has a a series of prompts to support your deepening understanding of how a school structures its curriculum, including the sequencing of key concepts and the development of critical knowledge and skills. You will need to look at your school’s website, long term planning/curriculum documents and also have a brief conversation with your mentor to pick out anything that can’t be found on the website or curriculum documents.
We suggest that you begin this task on your preliminary days, or soon after starting the placement, since it will give you an overview of what you are likely to teach (or observe) and what experiences the children will have had previously. This is also an opportunity to look at the curriculum overview documents (see link below for foundation subjects) to develop your understanding of key concepts within different subjects.
Please upload this information to your OneDrive Directed Tasks folder.