Curriculum Continuity

Transition often means visits made to the senior school from the junior schools. This is a world away from the practice of building curriculum continuity from Early Years into Key Stage 1, and from Key Stage 2 into Key Stage 3. The Learning Challenge has worked with many schools and many transition programmes over the last 15 years, and this experience has made us the champion of curriculum continuity.

The school experience begins in Nursery and Reception, and the pedagogy there rightly emphasizes child initiated learning and a continuous provision inside and out. These aspects of good practice can often fall away as the child moves from KS1 to KS2. In the senior school the pedagogy designed for mature learners in KS4 is applied to children as they begin. The curriculum continuity approach of TLC helps to provide common teaching strategies between the Key Stages, so that good practice and child-centred learning persists for as long as is right in each situation.