Best of Today: What should children learn?
Best of Today
BBC
4.0 • 837 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
The government has started a major review of the curriculum and assessment in England's schools, chaired by education policy expert Becky Francis. But how could we rethink England's curriculum and assessment?
Today hears from schools across the country trying new ways of doing things from using AI in classrooms to a more skills based approach and looking at why the 'exam season' might cease to exist.
The series hears from: former Conservative Schools Minister Nick Gibb; Jill Duffy from the OCR exam board; Jason Arday, former guest editor of the Today Programme and professor of the sociology of education at Cambridge University; Sir Ian Livingstone, a giant of modern British business and the man behind the Livingstone Academy; and Claire Heald, CEO of the Cam Academy Trust.
Producer: Sareen Bains
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | All this week on the Today programme, we've been looking at how schools are innovating in different ways |
| 0:09.7 | ahead of a review that the Labour government has started into the curriculum in England's schools. |
| 0:15.8 | In opposition, Sir Keir Starmer outlined a vision for education which sought to combat disadvantage, not least by |
| 0:22.2 | placing oracy, the ability to communicate effectively at the heart of schooling. |
| 0:27.6 | Voice 21, a charity which works with schools to build speaking skills, has published a report |
| 0:32.7 | it commissioned into Oracy Education. |
| 0:35.2 | Our reporter Christian Johnson joined the report's author, |
| 0:38.5 | the former Education Union leader, Jeff Barton, |
| 0:41.0 | on a visit to Cubet Town Primary School |
| 0:43.1 | in London's Isle of Dogs. |
| 0:48.9 | Hello everyone. Hello everyone. Hello everyone |
| 0:55.0 | Hello everyone |
| 0:57.0 | Thank you so much Iris class |
| 1:01.0 | Can we try so about the children getting used to the voice and changing your voice |
| 1:06.0 | because a lot of them speak monotone. |
| 1:08.0 | Structures that started RSC have changed because our children are different. And I think |
| 1:11.5 | that's the whole thing about RSC, is that it's going to be different in every school. |
| 1:15.2 | Robin Bruce, head teacher here at Cubit Town, explains how from reception children's speaking skills |
| 1:21.3 | are nurtured. They can tell us what they did there. So we can learn from others about their experiences and where they're from. |
| 1:28.9 | That is a beautiful point. |
| 1:30.3 | Let's focus in on London then for a bit for our final little bit of discussion. |
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