Establish what children already know and ensure that new learning builds on prior learning. Knowledge builds on knowledge.
Checklist
| Be aware of pupils’ previous learning (both in their current year group and in previous year groups). | ✔ |
| Plan how to link the new knowledge to pupils’ existing knowledge. | ✔ |
| Revisit the ‘Big Ideas’ within each curriculum area. | ✔ |
Example
- When teaching a new history unit, establish the new period of history relative to the time periods that children have already learned about.
- Revisit the ‘Big Ideas’. For example, revisit democracy in a previously learned period of history before exploring democracy in the current time period.
- Compare and contrast the the ‘Big Ideas’.
Further Information
Mary Myatt: https://www.marymyatt.com/
Christine Counsell has developed a KS2 curriculum that incorporates the Big Ideas and is well worth exploring: https://openingworlds.uk/
Video
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