What are the seven starting points that will ensure you have a healthy, open conversation about your school’s curriculum? John Tomsett, co-author of a new book on curriculum conversations, discusses some of the key questions we should be asking…

Having heard about our first Huh project, Philippa Cordingley, CEO of CUREE – the Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education – challenged co-author Mary Myatt and I to write a primary version.

In fact, we have written two. Primary Huh: Curriculum conversations with subject leaders in primary schools focuses upon individual discrete subjects, and its companion volume Primary Huh 2: Primary curriculum leadership conversations provides a platform to practitioners who lead on the broader issues of primary curriculum design.

Curriculum review can seem a daunting task and it is definitely a team undertaking. During the project, we interviewed 19 subject leaders and two senior leaders about how they approached developing their subject curriculum. We transcribed the interviews, pared them down to 3,000 words each, and added some other helpful content.

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