A blog providing ideas and resources for those teachers hoping to teach the new GCSE Specification, first announced in April 2022. Draft subject content released for consultation in June 2026 - for first teaching from 2028 or 2029.
Given that the next stage of consultation on the curriculum and other statutory steps have not yet been taken and it's September 2024, first teaching from 2025 was not going to happen, but the date has apparently been changed on OCR's timeline, according to this Schools Week post.
A piece in SchoolsWeek by Jo Sale back in July 2022 suggested that we need rather more work than just a new GCSE in Natural History to tackle the need for change.
She said that the curriculum reforms in response to climate change are not enough. Read the piece and see what you think. She also suggests that waiting to 2025 to even start the new courses is also a delay that we do not need if the new qualification is to achieve some of its desired goals over time.
A cross posting from my Geo Library blog project - what do you mean you haven't visited? There's over 700 books that would be of in...
