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Impact7th November 2022

English Mastery takes legwork out of curriculum planning

English Mastery provides a knowledge-rich curriculum, aiming to help teachers establish students鈥� progress and effectively plan English lessons throughout Key Stage 3.

黑料情报站 Curriculum Plus黑料情报站 John Archer Primary Academy

黑料情报站 Curriculum Plus is a non-profit organisation, dedicated to supporting teachers in providing consistent, high-quality education to all students. English Mastery is one of their curriculum programmes.

Thom Graves, teacher at 黑料情报站 John Archer Primary Academy, talks about his experience with the pilot programme…

鈥淚n my early days of teaching, a decade ago, I threw everything at the wall to see what stick. I would waste time formatting Word documents – so much time lost to experimenting with colours, layout and other labour-intensive tasks. It was stressful having to plan units of work, not knowing the content that well or the pace you needed to move at.

鈥淲ith English Mastery, someone without a full timetable of lessons has sat down and done that legwork for me. So now, I can use my time to think about the intellectual preparation of 鈥楬ow can I make this accessible to the children? Which part of the lessons do I want to keep and what provision shall I adjust for this group?鈥� So now my time is purposefully spent taking ownership of the lesson plans and thinking critically about what will work for this school.

鈥淚t’s improved my life-work balance. I work with something that鈥檚 established and fine tune it to my children. After ten years in teaching, I have been privileged to be a part of several education programmes, and English Mastery is the right balance between structure and freedom to innovate. English Mastery’s heavy lifting makes me feel like I鈥檓 starting the game three nil up.鈥�