Simplicitus Altius

Written by Emma Turner, Altius follows on from two of her other titles, The Interconnected Primary Curriculum and Effective Subject Leadership, and extends the ideas introduced in Simplicitus. It tackles harder questions that primary schools face when building a curriculum, including where reading belongs within that design and how child development and physical movement should shape it. The book offers hands-on guidance for getting a curriculum written from the ground up. It shows how to produce documentation that is clear, practical and genuinely usable in day-to-day school life, and it covers planning for classes that combine several year groups. It ends with a full section for evaluating the curriculum a school offers. Drawing on decades of experience and research, the book includes model materials and ready-to-use forms. Its approaches have already been applied by hundreds of schools and thousands of primary educators in the UK and abroad to design and review their curricula. The central message is that primary curriculum design can be demanding without having to be complicated.