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A well-designed curriculum, assessed well, is what drives learning. But building a coherent, well-sequenced curriculum and assessing it meaningfully is hard, and it’s exactly what inspectors scrutinise. This training helps your staff design, sequence, and assess a curriculum that helps every pupil know and remember more.
Below, we explain what our curriculum and assessment training involves, and how it helps you build a curriculum that works.
What Is Curriculum & Assessment Training for Schools?
It’s practical training that helps leaders and teachers strengthen curriculum design and assessment. We cover intent, sequencing, and progression, and how to assess in a way that tells you what pupils really know, without drowning staff in data.
We link it to what inspectors look for, and focus on making the curriculum coherent and the assessment purposeful rather than burdensome.
Who Is This Training For?
It’s designed for all education settings: maintained schools, academies, and multi-academy trusts, Alternative Provisions, and SEND Units/Hubs. It works for subject leaders, senior leaders, and curriculum teams. Trusts often run it across schools to align curriculum thinking.
Many schools ask for it when developing a new curriculum, sharpening assessment, or preparing for the deep dives an inspection brings.
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What Does the Training Cover?
We shape the content around your priorities. You can book a whole-school INSET, a group session, or focused one-to-one support. Our most common areas include:
- Curriculum intent: what and why
- Sequencing and progression that build knowledge
- Designing a coherent subject curriculum
- Assessment that shows what pupils know
- Reducing assessment workload
- Using assessment to inform teaching
- Curriculum for pupils with SEND
- Preparing for curriculum deep dives
How This Training Helps Your School, Academy, Trust, or Alternative Provision
1
Build a coherent curriculum
Staff learn to sequence knowledge so it builds over time. Pupils know and remember more.
2
Assess what really matters
We show staff how to assess meaningfully, so assessment tells you what pupils actually know.
3
Cut assessment workload
Purposeful assessment replaces data for its own sake. Staff spend less time and learn more.
4
Strengthen subject leadership
Subject leaders learn to design and lead their curriculum with confidence and clarity.
5
Prepare for inspection
Your team is ready for deep dives, with a curriculum they can explain and justify.
6
Support pupils with SEND
We show how to make the curriculum ambitious and accessible for every learner.
7
Use assessment to teach better
Staff learn to use what assessment tells them to adapt and improve their teaching.
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How the Training Works
- 1We talk with you to understand your context, your staff, and what you want to change.
- 2We tailor the content to your setting, your phase, and your improvement priorities.
- 3We work through your own curriculum where it helps, so the training is grounded in your context.
- 4We deliver the training in person or online, in a way that fits your calendar.
- 5We give you practical resources and tools your staff can use straight away.
- 6We follow up to help you embed the learning, so it sticks and changes classroom practice.
What Your Staff Get
Every participant comes away with more than notes. They get:
- Clear, practical strategies they can use in the next lesson
- A shared language and consistent approach across the team
- Ready-to-use resources, tools, and templates
- The confidence to put the training into practice
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Key Features of Our Training
Inspection-informed
We link the training to what inspectors look for in curriculum and assessment.
Tailored to your subjects
We shape the content around your phase, subjects, and priorities.
Whole-school, group, or individual
Book an INSET, a subject session, or coaching. We adapt to you.
Why Choose Jarvis Education?
We work only with education settings. We know what a strong curriculum looks like and how to assess it well without overwhelming staff. Our training helps you build a curriculum that works, with every decision staying focused on children.
Want to know how this training could work for your school? Just get in touch.
Next Steps & How to Get Started
- Speak to one of our experts. We’ll explain how we work, answer your questions, and help you shape the right training for your staff.
- We agree dates and delivery that suit your calendar, in person or online, and confirm everything in writing.
- Contact us today to discuss how we can support your school, academy, trust, and alternative provision.
- We’re ready to help and support you.
Who We Work With
We support settings of every type across England and internationally.
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