AWARDS There are seven key learning skills in Curriculum 200
Not so common entrance Eagle House Prep in Berkshire has replaced the Common Entrance with Curriculum 200. Here, Head of English, MATTHEW EDWARDS explains the new curriculum
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t Eagle House we had long felt that the Common Entrance examinations restricted us from being as creative and as forward-thinking as we would like. When the majority of senior schools moved to pre-testing in year six, the exams at 13+ seemed to be less relevant to our pupils. A lot of curriculum time in a pupil’s final two years was lost to exam preparation, and this seemed to be time that could CURRICULUM be best used in much better ways. We’re privileged 200 to be part of an independent education system that Last year, Eagle House allows us to go above and beyond the typical, and School launched an exciting, with a desire to create something that would prepare rich, knowledge-based our children best for the future, Curriculum 200 was curriculum with a broad born. Launched in 2020, 200 years after the founding range of topics for years of the school, we hope this new curriculum creates an five to eight. Incorporating exciting, robust and inspiring learning environment seven key learning skills at for our boys and girls. its heart, the curriculum Our pupils in years one to four have been following encourages exploration the International Primary Curriculum (IPC) for and mastery in academic some years, enabling us to combine the teaching of subjects alongside regular humanities, science and arts subjects into meaningful assessment, allowing pupils thematic units. We wanted to devise a curriculum in to develop a passion and years five to eight that built on the IPC and allowed us interest in particular areas. to create a rich, knowledge-based curriculum with a broader range of topics taught by subject specialists.
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