Checking and analysing coverage

Checking and analysing coverage

Within your curriculum, Intended coverage is perfect for senior leaders and subject leaders to check and, if necessary, plan to ensure that all subject programmes of study are covered, at the desired depth, by the school’s curriculum.

What does the Intended coverage tab show?

The Intended coverage tab is populated by the projects that you have chosen across the whole school. This is your intended coverage and is what may or may not be taught over an extended period.

Intended coverage includes all of the national curriculum programmes of study, and, to ensure a broad, balanced and cohesive curriculum, includes statements created from the aims of the national curriculum. Any statement marked as an aim is not a statutory programme of study.

For each programme of study, you can look at the more specific coverage of the Cornerstones skills and knowledge framework.  It is a school’s choice as to how they cover the programmes of study, and they do not have to cover all skills and/or knowledge statements.

Analysing coverage

Use the filters at the top of the page to choose a subject (including subject area and aspect if required), filter for single or multiple year groups and select whether you'd like to see 'All programme of study, Subject gaps, or All gaps'.
  1. All programmes of study will show all PoS for the selected subject
  2. Subject gaps will show only the PoS that are not being covered for the selected subject
  3. All gaps will show all gaps in the curriculum for all subjects. You can then choose to show the breadth and discrete gaps if required.
The solid green circle under each project title shows you how many times a programme of study is being covered within that project. Clicking on this green circle will show you the lessons that cover this PoS.


 

 Click the 'Objectives' button to see which skills and/or knowledge statements cover elements of that programme of study.

  1. A green  'Objectives >' button means that you are covering all skills and knowledge statements for the programme of study.
  2. An orange  'Objectives >' button means that you are covering some of the skills and knowledge statements for that programme of study.
  3. An orange  'Objectives >' button with the warning triangle means that you are not covering any of the skills and knowledge statements for that programme of study and it is, therefore, a gap in your coverage.
After clicking an Objectives button, the green outlined circle shows how many times each objective is planned to be covered. Click on the circle to show which lessons are covering the selected objective.

Adding to coverage

Any SLT or Maestro administrator can assign skills to existing projects, or create a school project to help with coverage of the national curriculum.

  1. Go to Design and lead > Live curriculum (or the top right hand menu > All curriculums > [Name of curriculum] Edit).
  2. Click on the Coverage tab.
  3. Click Objectives next to any programme of study.
  4. Click Assign next to any objective.
  5. Choose an existing project from the menu in either the selected year group or a project from a different year group.
The assigned statements will appear within the chosen project under the School lessons tab or subject tab.

What does the Programme of study and Early Learning Goals tab show?

The Programme of study and Early Learning Goals tab shows all of the programmes of study and related Early Learning Goals for the selected subject. It is exactly the same as your Intended coverage but in a different format. It is populated by the projects that you have chosen across the whole school. This is your intended coverage and is what may or may not be taught over an extended period.

Each National Curriculum subject has been broken down into aspects, and these aspects have been grouped by each of the Big Ideas (read more about our Big Ideas). These appear down the left of the screen.

Next to each aspect is the Early Learning Goal and programme of study for each year group from Nursery to Year 6.

Programmes of study that are covered in your intended curriculum:
  1. A statement in bold black marked ‘Covered’ is covered by the activities within your project choices.
  2. A statement in bold black marked Optional 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.
  3. A statement in light grey is not covered in that aspect for that year group, but is covered elsewhere by a different aspect or in a different year group.
Programmes of study that are not covered in your intended curriculum:
  1. A statement in light grey marked ‘Required coverage, options [x]’ is not covered by the activities within your project choices, but could be covered as an optional skill in an activity from your project choices. Leaders may choose and assign a skill in Intended coverage to ensure that this programme of study is covered. Alternatively, they should make the class teacher aware that they will need to ensure that they teach the optional coverage in order to achieve this programme of study.
  2. A statement in light grey marked ‘Required coverage’ is a gap and must be assigned via the Intended coverage tab.

IdeaIf a teacher must teach the optional coverage in order to achieve coverage of a Programme of study, click on the Optional coverage tab to view the lesson, then click 'Edit adaptation' to add a note to ensure that the teacher knows that they need to teach this optional coverage during that lesson.
Click on any programme of study to show the projects and number of lessons that the statement 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. 

IdeaProgrammes of study for foundation subjects (except science) are Key Stage specific.
Statements shown in light grey may be covered by another year group. For example: In Art and Design, Year 1, ‘Produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences’ may be in light grey text (signifying a gap), but in Year 2, it is in bold black text (signifying that it is covered).

Statements shown in light grey may be covered in a different aspect. For example: In Year 1, the statement ‘Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.' is covered in the aspects 'paint', but is not covered in 'pencil, ink, charcoal and pen' or 'printing'.
Statements marked with the word breadth are programmes of study derived from the aims sections of a subject, to provide the opportunity for the teaching of increased breadth and depth. These breadth programmes of study are not part of statutory requirements.

Excluding/removing coverage

Once your projects are added to your curriculum, senior leaders can decide to make exclusions within their chosen projects to remove coverage from their Intended coverage and Progression. On the Curriculum sequence tab within your live curriculum, they can exclude whole subjects or individual lessons or if they are not appropriate for their setting, or are being taught discretely elsewhere:
  1. Click on the image of the project that you wish to exclude lessons or a subject from.
  2. Click 'Coverage exclusions'.
  3. In the top right, choose either Group by stage or Group by subject.
  4. Click 'Exclude' to exclude individual lessons or 'Exclude all' to exclude groups of lessons. 
  5. Click 'Save'.

 To view coverage exclusions, go to the Coverage exclusions tab and click on each project to view the coverage exclusions for each project.

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Setting up your curriculum? Next step: Planning for single aged classes or Planning for mixed age classes


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