Choosing and 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: Checking coverage.
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 enables users to explore and compare the Cornerstones projects.
- Go to Design and lead > View and compare projects.
- Use the Search, or filter by Curriculum, AoLE or Year group.
- Use the 'Options' button to include/exclude our Science investigations or your 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 AoLE focus, year group and type of project.
- Click the heart next to the project title to favourite a project. Favouriting a project adds it to your homepage alongside projects in your class plan. In the top right are any companion projects and the buttons to change the view.
- The Overview shows the main aspects within the project.
- The WMS view shows the specific statements of what matters covered.
- The knowledge and skills 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
- 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.
- Click 'Select' under the project image, to turn it green.
- Click 'Compare' at the side of the project images.
In the comparison model top right corner, the Overview shows the main aspects within the project, the WMS view shows the statements of what matters covered and the Knowledge and skills shows the knowledge and skills covered in the project.
To 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 tab enables you to add (or remove) projects to your curriculum. 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 Creating your curriculum using the Cwricwlwm designer.
You don't need to worry about the order of the projects yet, as you'll order them within each plan during the planning stage. 1. Go to Design and lead > Cwricwlwm designer (or the top right hand menu > All curriculums > [Name of curriculum] Open curriculum)
2. Click on the Curriculum sequence tab
3. Click the grey box at the end of the term's project row
4. Use the categories to browse the projects
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
- Hover over the project that you want to remove and click 'Remove'.
- Confirm the project that you want to move and click 'Remove'.
Setting up your curriculum? Next step: Checking coverage
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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