However two contracts to create classes for 2 topics not awarded as bids ‘didn’t meet top quality bar’
Oak Nationwide Academy has revealed its new curriculum companions to create free classes for the federal government quango – however two topics haven’t been awarded after bids didn’t meet “the top quality bar”.
Of the ten awarded heaps – masking six topics – 4 had been gained by colleges, together with Future Academies and the Twyford Church of England Academies Belief.
The opposite six went to the Arithmetic in Schooling and Business charity, the College of York’s Division of Schooling, the Geographical Affiliation and publishing large Pearson (see full listing beneath).
However contracts to create a curriculum for major music and secondary geography weren’t awarded.
The quango mentioned this was “as a result of no bid met the top quality bar”. It’s now exploring “subsequent steps to develop these”, resembling probably rolling them into the subsequent procurement cycle.
The unique tenders totalled £8.2 million.
In the meantime, membership of six topic professional teams to offer “invaluable unbiased suggestions” and act as a “sounding board by means of the event work” has additionally been revealed.
Membership contains 39 academics, lecturers and topic specialists (full listing beneath).
Ofsted topic leaders sit on 5 of the teams. Oak mentioned whereas they are going to “enter their experience”, the leaders is not going to have a proper function in defining or recommending the curriculum.
As revealed by Faculties Week, no less than seven of the 11 main academy trusts who helped discovered the platform throughout the pandemic didn’t bid to turn out to be curriculum companions for the quango.
However Oak introduced as we speak employees from three of these seven trusts will probably be on the brand new topic teams. New curriculum companions Future Academies and Fox Federation had been additionally unique companions.
Among the new curriculum companions can even be recruiting academics to assist develop classes sources, Oak added.
Curriculum sequences and preliminary sources will probably be out there from autumn 2023. The total curriculum packages for the primary six topics will probably be developed by September 2024.
Oak will quickly being to recruit topic leads for its second procurement cycle. The themes embrace fashionable international languages, RE, citizenship/RHSE, computing, artwork and design, PE, and design and expertise.
An organisation specialising in variety can even be appointed to “ship breadth and variety in content material, language, texts, media and our academics”.
Matt Hood, interim chief government of Oak Nationwide Academy, mentioned the brand new curriculum companions “means academics can have entry to a number of the smartest curriculum pondering and useful resource design on faucet, one thing they’ve instructed us they need”.
The authorities has began recruitment for a everlasting chief government at Oak, paid £120,000.
Oak’s new curriculum companions
- English major: Fox Federation
- English secondary: Twyford Church of England Academies Belief
- Maths major and secondary: Arithmetic in Schooling and Business (MEI)
- Science major and secondary: Division of Schooling, College of York
- Historical past major: Pearson Schooling
- Historical past secondary: Future Academies
- Geography major: Geographical Affiliation
- Music secondary: Information Faculties Belief
Topic professional group members
English:
- Dr Elaine Allen OBE – St John Vianneys Catholic Major Faculty/English Hubs Council
- Neil Almond – STEP Academy Belief
- Matt Carnaby – Inspiration Belief
- Amy Coombe – Athena Studying Belief
- Zoe Enser – Ofsted
- Bennie Kara – Adhara Schooling
- Ann-Marie Linehan – Buxton Faculty
- Andrew Percival – Stanley Street Major Faculty
- Madeleine Roberts – Ark John Keats
- Laura Rowlands – Woodlands Group School
- Nick Wallace – Ark Curriculum+
- Chloe Wardle – Ambition Institute
Maths:
- Claire Christie – Ashley Down Major Faculty
- Shannen Doherty – Aquinas Church of England Schooling Belief
- Kathryn Greenhalgh – Chair of the Maths Hub Council
- Marc Hayes – Roundhay Faculty
- Richard Perring – The Affiliation of Academics of Arithmetic
- Naveen Rizvi – Astrea Academies Belief
- Jemma Sherwood – Ormiston Academies Belief / The Mathematical Affiliation
- Hannah Stoten – Ofsted
- Helen Temple – Park Group Faculty / Simple Maths
- Jay Timotheus – Co-op Academies Belief
- Steve Wren – Ofsted
Science:
- Jamie Conyard – Inspiration Belief
- Marianne Cutler – The Affiliation for Science Schooling
- Heena Dave – Instructor Improvement Belief
- Euan Douglas – Saint George Catholic School
- Naomi Hiscock – Major Science Schooling Consultancy
- Prof. Sylvia Knight – The Royal Meteorological Society
- Richard Lewis – Redgate Major, Formby
- Lauren McLeod – Royal Society of Biology
- Kirsty Simkin – Attain Academy, Feltham
- Helen Skelton – Beaumont Faculty, St Albans
- Charles Tracy – Institute of Physics
- Dr. Nicola Treby – College of Roehampton
- Henry Ward – d’Overbroeck’s, Oxford
Historical past:
- Ben Arscott – Inspiration Belief
- John Blake – Workplace for College students
- David Burton – Nonsuch Excessive Faculty for Ladies
- Matthew Flynn – Ryders Hayes Faculty
- Manjit Harvey-Extra – Prince Albert Excessive Faculty
- Jon Hutchinson – Attain Basis
- Tim Jenner – Ofsted
- Meghan Tipping – Heritage and Schooling Skilled
- Josh Vallance – Oasis Academy Shirley Park
- Bobbie Younger – Harris Federation
Geography:
- Tiffeny Ashton – St Columb Minor Academy
- Tom Brassington – St Modwens, Burton
- Michael Chiles – Kings Management Academy
- Mark Enser – Ofsted
- Iain Freeland – Oasis Group Studying
- Kate Fritter – Ark Curriculum+
- Grace Healy – David Ross Schooling Belief
- David Preece – Educate First
- Jessica Rennie – Stanley Street Major Faculty, Oldham
Music:
- Carolyn Baxendale MBE – Music Schooling Hubs
- Steve Berryman – The Constitution Faculties Academic Belief
- Liz Dunbar – Huntington Faculty, York
- Don Gillthorpe – Music Academics’ Affiliation
- James Grey – Staffordshire Analysis Faculty
- Naomi McCarthy – Unbiased Society of Musicians
- Joe Norris – Dixons Trinity, Chapeltown
- Jimmy Rotherham – Feversham Major Academy
- Rebecca Shaw – Failsworth Co-op Academy
- Margaret O’Shea – Ark Faculties
- Chris Stevens – Ofsted
- Antitsa Undzhiyan – Mere Inexperienced Major Faculty
- Jenny Williams – Music Hub
- Bridget Whyte – Music Mark
