Adding projects to your curriculum

Adding projects to your curriculum

Whether you start with one of our curriculum models or build your curriculum from scratch, you may want to add or remove projects to create a curriculum that is bespoke to your school’s needs. Once you are happy with your project choices, you are ready to move to the next step. When thinking about your project choices, you may wish to think about what you will include, and what you may exclude. This could be a whole subject that you teach discretely or via another scheme, or it could be a handful of lessons that are not appropriate for your setting.

Choosing projects

The View and compare projects page enables users to explore and compare any projects. 

Go to Design and lead > View and compare projects.
Use the Search, or filter by Curriculum, Subject or year group.
Use the Options button to include/exclude our EYFS legacy projects, Science investigations or School projects.

To view and favourite individual projects


The page shows the projects organised alphabetically by year group. 

 

 



 

Click on the project image or title to open the project overview. In the top left, under the title, is the subject focus, year group and type of project. Click the heart next to the project title to favourite a project. In the top right, are any companion projects and the buttons to change the view.

  1. The Overview shows the main aspects within the project.
  2. The PoS view shows the specific programmes of study covered. 
  3. The Skills and core knowledge shows the specific knowledge and skills covered.

Click 'View lessons and resources' to view the whole project in a new tab.


To compare multiple projects

1.     Click the small pin icon next to each of the projects that you wish to compare. You may compare up to 10 at one time.
2.     Click 'Select' under the small project images in the top bar, to turn them green.
3.      Click 'Compare' at the side of the project images.

IdeaTo remove projects from the pinned section, click on the individual pins next to the projects or click 'Unpin all' in the top bar.

Adding/removing projects from your curriculum

The Curriculum sequence enables you to add (or remove) projects to your curriculum and also order them by terms. If you have chosen a model curriculum, this page will be populated for you. If you have not yet created a curriculum, or want to start with a model, please go back to the article Design a new curriculum.

AlertYou don't need to worry about the order of the projects yet, as you'll order them within each plan during the planning stage. 

To add projects

1.      Go to Design and lead > Live curriculum.
2.      Click on the Curriculum sequence tab.
3.      Click the grey 'Add' box at the end of the term's project row for the relevant year group.


4.      Use the tabs to browse the projects (subjects or favourites) 
5.      Select any number of projects using the small tick box in the corner of each picture.
6.      Once you have selected your project, click 'Add'.

7.      Drag and drop the projects into the sequence which you wish for them to appear in (to change the project's term, simply drag the project to the correct place and drop it.)

To remove projects

1.      Hover over the project that you want to remove and click 'Remove'.
2.      Confirm the project that you want to remove and click 'Remove'.

Summary

Once your curriculum has projects added, go back to the Summary tab for an overall picture of your coverage and the total number of lessons within your intended curriculum.




Clicking on the number of projects will show you an overview of the project coverage for the chosen year group. 


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