UN Goals

Over the past quarter of a century the Department for Education has asked schools to audit and evaluate a range skills, knowledge and ‘competences’ which are delivered across many areas of the curriculum. This has included ‘hard’ key skills like literacy, numeracy and information technology, ‘soft’ key skills like working with others, problem solving and managing your own performance and a range of other cross curricular skills and dimensions.

Whilst these have largely disappeared from government legislation, they still provide a very useful vehicle for understanding the impact of the whole curriculum in key areas. We currently use this methodology to look at the development of information technology skills through the curriculum, which you can find here. Our other major area of focus is the sustainability of the school, and how our ideas about sustainability are represented in the school curriculum, through the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The way this is done is through the curriculum pages on our website. There is a web page for every subject in every year group, which explains the key knowledge and skills taught through that subject, the learning activities students will undertake in the various units of work and how students will be assessed and how this information be fed back to parents. Embedded within these pages are the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with their image used to indicate that teaching content will include reference to that Goal. In this way, the key theme of sustainability is woven throughout the school curriculum.