Curriculum Integration
Ultra Education’s Outcomes that also deliver the 2019 National Curriculum
Local authority primary and secondary schools, as well as most academies that choose to follow the National Curriculum, have a new set of outcomes to achieve.
The new regime for schools is set out in the Education Inspection Framework (EIF), which has come into effect last month, i.e. September 2019.
Ofsted, which is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills, ie the body that judges schools and informs their funding levels, has a new ‘judgement’ number 3, called Personal Development. This recognises that exam results are too narrow a measure of a good school, and that good outcomes are measured by how successfully pupils are developed as well-rounded citizens.
The Opportunity for Schools
For schools this is a real opportunity because the purpose of the new framework is to tackle social justice issues – ensuring that all pupils, regardless of their starting points, backgrounds and individual needs, have an equal chance to succeed. Schools are now actively looking for ways to meet this Ofsted judgement on behalf of their pupils.
The Personal Development judgement category (3) expects schools to be providing interventions that promote:
- character development
- resilience
- confidence
- independence
- learners’ discovery of their interests and talent
- preparation for life in the here and now
- equality and diversity
The Core Outcomes of Ultra Education, as agreed by existing participants and delivery staff (see Core Outcomes table) meet these new outcomes that Ofsted is looking for and that schools will be judged on providing.
Curriculum-based Outcomes that link directly with teaching in schools are presented here below.
Entrepreneurship education is an effective vehicle for the development of character, resilience, confidence etc, which have application in the lives of every young person. Development of enterprises is definitely a desired and likely consequence of entrepreneurship education beyond school.
CORE OUTCOMES
Immediate Outcomes: (assessed on completion of session or series of sessions)
- Understand the meaning of entrepreneurship
- Understand the value of learning from mistakes and failures
- Feel they have the resilience to bounce back when things go wrong
- Feel energised through working on creative business ideas
- Experience motivation to achieve from within themselves
- Gain confidence to speak, present and persuade
- Understand and respect different roles in a team
- Respect and value opinions of others
- Experience good ways to give and receive criticism
- Experience working with others towards a shared goal
Additional Core Outcomes for Target Group (pre-NEET and NEET young people)
- Improved commitment to attending school/college
- Improved commitment and attitude to learning throughout the curriculum
- Improved connection and relations with staff and peers
- Improved ability to manage money and make sound financial decisions
- Improved view of own life and future work opportunities
- Improved independence, enabling resistance to peer pressure leading to destructive life choices
