Creative and Meaningful Curriculum

The schools in Nechells Education Action Zone aim to create a cohesive, meaningful curriculum that gives children and young people a purpose and an audience and that develops their skills of enquiry, independence and collaboration.

To provide a framework for the rigour that is needed to raise or maintain high standards in literacy and numeracy. The Education Action is developing a curriculum that teaches students how to learn and gives them opportunities to make a real difference in their own lives and those of others.

Objectives:

• To raise standards
• To develop a curriculum that excites and engages children and young people
• To offer children and young people different experiences
• To engage parents in the curriculum

To support zone schools in implementing a creative and meaningful curriculum Nechells Education Action Zone provides:

• "WOW" Events
• Focus Weeks
• Resource Boxes
• Annual Creative Curriculum Conference
• School based Creative Curriculum Projects
• Working group for Creative Curriculum leads from each zone school
• Outdoor Zone Learning Area