A Broad and Balanced Curriculum in Primary Schools

Part 1 Understanding the Context of Children's Lives: Supporting Holistic Education 1. Resourcing the spirit of the child: Creativity in the contemporary classroom - Kate Thorpe 2. Creating Space to Explore Self-identity - Rachel Mason 3. Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development - Tony Eaude 4. Child Mental Health and the Role of the Arts - Susan Ogier 5. Philosophy and Learning to Think - Aimee Quickfall 6. Relationship and Sex Education: Valuing and respecting difference - Bonnie Kerr 7. Curriculum design: Shaping purposeful learning - Karin Doull 8. Developing a supportive ethos for all learners - Carrie Winstanley Part 2 Making Learning Meaningful: Teaching and Assessing a Broad and Balanced Curriculum 9. Learning to Enquire: The role of the humanities - Tony Eaude 10. Stranger things in the classroom: Drawing inspiration from children's visual culture - Robert Watts 11. Writing as an art form: an author's perspective - Michael Rosen 12. Learning to thrive with nature - Tessa Willy, Richard Dunne and Emilie Martin 13. Balancing the equation - Pinky Jain 14. Connecting STEM with the Arts: Because It Makes Sense - Susan Ogier and Nick Corston 15. Alternative Environments: Physical and virtual spaces - Lynda Chinaka and Anthony Barlow 16. Assessing the whole child - Maria Vinney Part 3 The Reflective Teacher: Developing as a Professional in the Primary Classroom 17. Transforming learning spaces for a twenty-first century curriculum - Murray Hudson and Terry White 18. The personal in the professional - Teresa Cremin 19. Differing views of Professionalism: Implications for primary teachers - Tony Eaude 20. The creative teacher: Agency and empowerment - Kate Thorpe 21. Myth busting in the contemporary primary classroom - Robert Morgan