The core principle behind the SMARTcurriculum® method is to have sufficient detail and reason to make good decisions about the curriculum provision reflecting the intent – implementation – impact framework now in popular understanding from the 2019 Ofsted framework- thus ‘To understand’.
On so many occasions during my working life I have had reason to deal with circumstances where educational professionals, whose sole rationale for decisions made about school design, curriculum change and staff deployment were predicated on a survey of what other people are doing, what I did in my last school and poorly understood structures driving reasoning and practice .
In this context, much of the current narrative about funding and structures, leaves many with a real lack of narrative about the true size and cost of curriculum provision. To this end we have developed a methodology that can provide confidence about the size and cost of curriculum provision based on 12 core principles.