CfBT wins contract for subject specific support for the new secondary curriculum

Leading education charity CfBT Education Trust has been awarded the Department for Education and Skills’ (DfES) contract to provide subject specific support for the implementation of the new secondary curriculum.

Working with ten relevant subject associations CfBT will be offering subject specific support for the implementation of the forthcoming new secondary curriculum to all maintained schools in England covering PSHE, citizenship, history, geography, design and technology, languages, art and design, PE, RE and music.

This support will include web-based materials such as curriculum writing guides, a toolkit of resources for teachers and case studies of best practice as well as information sharing events in the nine local government regions.

The aim of the support provided by CfBT and the subject associations is to assist secondary school subject leaders and teachers to deliver the new curriculum content in particular subjects in a way that allows them to link across the whole curriculum in imaginative and inspirational ways.

Following the recent review of the secondary curriculum undertaken by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) this contract represents part of a wider programme of multi-agency support for implementation of the new secondary curriculum.

Margaret Abbott, UK Services Director CfBT Education Trust, said: “We are very pleased to have been awarded this contract by the DfES and are looking forward to working with the subject associations to provide support to teachers for the implementation of the new secondary curriculum.”

CfBT and subject associations are currently in the process of appointing national subject leads and up to 450 regional subject advisors with expertise in subject teaching, developing and leading CPD to work with the associations in developing materials for teachers.

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For more information contact:
Karen Borrer MCIPR
PR Manager, CfBT Education Trust
60 Queens Road
Reading
Berkshire
RG1 4BS
0118 902 1256
07920 476593
kborrer@cfbt.com
www.cfbt.com