Creating your curriculum using the Cwricwlwm designer

Creating your curriculum using the Cwricwlwm designer

The Cwricwlwm designer enables you to design your own curriculum to fit the needs of your school.
 
You can do this by choosing and creating projects, or by using one of our prepopulated curriculum models. We have designed these models by looking at the curriculum journey that children will take over their time in primary education, and have chosen projects to provide the broad and balanced curriculum that all children deserve whilst ensuring the best progression and coverage possible.  
 
Most schools start with one of our curriculum models, then build and adapt it for their school. If you need further guidance on how to construct your curriculum, please read our article: Your curriculum.

Creating a new curriculum (first time user)

Go to Design and lead > Cwricwlwm designer. You now have two choices:
  1. Use a curriculum model, which will automatically add a range of projects and populate your class plans (recommended).
    1. Select either the 'Single age' or 'Mixed age' model (an overview showing the number of projects and types of projects will be shown below - read more about project types). 
    2. Click 'Create'.
  2. Create a curriculum from scratch, choosing from our range of projects.
    1. Go to the next step: Choosing and adding projects to your curriculum.
Your curriculum has been created, and you can now view summary and sequence and move on to making the curriculum bespoke to your school. 

Copying a older curriculum to change

  1. In the top right hand corner, click the small arrow next to your name.
  2. Go to 'All curriculums'.
  3. Click the Settings button next to the model that you wish to use, click 'Copy'.
  4. Add a Curriculum name.
  5. Select a type - School can be seen by all users, User can only be seen by yourself.
  6. Add any notes about your curriculum.
  7. Click 'Create'.
Your curriculum has been created, and you can now view summary and sequence and move on to making the curriculum bespoke to your school. 
 
Next steps: Checking and analysing coverage​ or Adding and removing projects

View all curriculums and models

  1. In the top right hand corner, click the small arrow next to your name.
  2. Go to 'All curriculums'.
All curriculums will be listed below with a brief overview of the content. Use the cog icon to the left of each curriculum to activate, copy, or delete this curriculum.
  1. Your active curriculum (live) - This is the curriculum that your teachers will see and be teaching from.
  2. Draft/old curriculums - Draft curriculums are those that all SLT and Administrators can see and develop. Old curriculums can be left here as 'archived' curriculums or deleted, if required. 
Info
Old curriculums may only be deleted if they do not contain planned and taught lessons.
  1. User curriculums (owner will be the user's name) - These are visible only to yourself. They can be used to test project combinations and plans.
  2. Favourites - These cannot be edited, only viewed or copied. This is a curriculum that is created automatically based on projects that have been tagged as 'favourite' projects by teachers.

 

Creating a new curriculum from scratch

  1. In the top right hand corner, click the small arrow next to your name.
  2. Go to 'All curriculums'.
  3. Click 'Create'.
  4. Add a Curriculum name.
  5. Select a type - School can be seen by all users, User can only be seen by yourself.
  6. Add any notes about your curriculum.
  7. Choose coverage against - this is the Curriculum For Wales option that your curriculum will be checked against.
  8. Click 'Create'.
Your curriculum has been created, and you can now start adding projects to design a curriculum for your school.

Activating your curriculum

Once you have created your curriculum, and are ready to use it, you will need to activate it, so it is live for all staff to use.
  1. In the top right-hand corner, click the small arrow next to your name.
  2. Go to 'All curriculums'.
  3. Click the cog next to your required curriculum.
  4. Select 'activate' to make it your live curriculum.
Warning
Making a curriculum 'active' will log out all school users, so please ensure you have informed staff and that it is a convenient time.

Summary

When designing or reviewing a curriculum, you will always start on the Summary tab. Once your curriculum has projects added, this page will give you a summary of the 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. Clicking on the project icon will open that project in a new tab, so that you can have a look at it in more detail.



The other tabs that form the Cwricwlwm designer are:
  1. Cwricwlwm Sequence - enables you to add projects to and remove projects from your curriculum and complete coverage exclusions, as required (restricted to Maestro Administrators and SLT access levels). Read more about this page here.
  2. Coverage exclusions - shows all of the exclusions that have been made in your curriculum on one page.
  3. Coverage - shows your coverage of the statements of what matters by AoLE, by year group and by project. Also enables Maestro Administrators and SLT access levels to assign lessons to fill gaps in projects. Read more about this page here.
  4. Class plans - enables Maestro Administrators and SLT access levels to add their chosen projects to plans and cycles and to assign classes to the plans.
  5. Class plan details - are created for each class with our default content but can be edited to be customised to a teacher's requirements. Read more about this page here.
  6. Progression Read more about this page here
  7. Objectives by AoLE - shows coverage of the skills and knowledge framework by AoLE. Can also be filtered to split skills and knowledge.
  8. Details - can be edited to give your curriculum a name, add in notes and change the coverage against different curriculum choices.

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