Analysing intended progression
Within your curriculum, the progression section shows you the progression of the objectives, (skills and knowledge) through your curriculum project choices. The skills and knowledge framework provides clear subject endpoints from Nursery to Year 6, and is a great tool for senior leaders, subject leaders and teachers.
Skills and knowledge statements (objectives) have been created from the broad national curriculum programmes of study to ensure comprehensive curriculum progression. These objectives are grouped by aspects (key subject concepts or areas) and linked by Big Ideas (larger concepts or global themes), resulting in a connected and cohesive progression framework.
This allows you to see the skills and knowledge assigned to each year group (in all subjects) and to see how many lessons are intended to be taught to cover each aspect.
Objectives by subject
The Objectives by subject tab shows the Cornerstones skills and knowledge framework by subject area and shows your intended progression of skills and knowledge based on your Intended coverage. This is your intended progression and is what may or may not be taught over an extended period.
All skills and knowledge within this progression framework have been created by Cornerstones, and are not statutory. They provide depth to the programmes of study.
If you want to search for a specific aspect or skill, press CTRL+F to show the search box.Each national curriculum subject has been broken down into aspects, and these aspects have been linked to the Big Ideas (read more about our Big Ideas). These appear down the left of the screen.
Next to each aspect is the skills and knowledge for each year group from Nursery to Year 6.
- A statement in bold black with a 'covered' label is covered by the activities within your project choices.
- A statement in bold black with an 'optional' label is covered by the activities within your project choices, but only as an optional skill in an activity that teachers may choose not to cover.
- A statement in light grey is not covered by the activities within your project choices.
Although the skills and knowledge are not statutory, you may wish to assign skills to a project to increase the depth of coverage in a particular area. To do this, click on Assign and choose the project that you wish the objective to be taught in.
For example, in art and design for Key Stage 1, the national curriculum programme of study asks children to 'Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.'
We've broken this down into four separate skills:
- Year 1: Represent the human face, using drawing, painting or sculpture, from observation, imagination or memory with some attention to facial features.
- Year 1: Draw or paint a place from memory, imagination or observation.
- Year 2: Represent the human form, including face and features, from observation, imagination or memory.
- Year 2: Draw or paint features of a landscape from memory, imagination or observation, with some attention to detail.
Your coverage may tell you that you are covering the first Year 1 objective as part of your intended curriculum, and therefore have coverage of that programme of study. However, to develop the skills and ensure that you are building on skills and knowledge, you may also wish to assign one of the objectives from Year 2.
Click on any covered objective to show the projects and number of lessons that the objective is being covered by. You can click on the number of lessons to look at the lesson detail, or plan the lesson into your timetable.
Objectives by Big Idea
The Objectives by Big Idea tab shows the Cornerstones skills and knowledge framework by Big Idea, rather than by subject. It displays how the 10 Big Ideas are taught across the curriculum through the aspects of different subject lenses.
Senior leaders can assign skills to a project to ensure that skills and knowledge are developed through these global themes. To do this, click on Assign and choose the project that you wish the objective to be taught in.
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