A Curriculum that brings Learning to Life

The Learning Challenge Curriculum has been designed to help you create your own bespoke curriculum but take advantage of the numerous resources, including schemes of work, that have been produced to support you.

The curriculum is built on sequencing knowledge and skills (to include substantive and disciplinary knowledge) and building on prior learning so that each subject creates a narrative. Each school needs to be clear about what they want their pupils to be able to do, know and remember by the time they leave. Much of this information will be drawn from the National Curriculum (whilst acknowledging the freedoms afforded academies) but will also need to consider the school’s context, including issues arising from pupils’ cultural capital and the locality of the school.

We have used an enquiry-approach methodology, where possible, so that questions are predominant in most of the units produced. To this end, we hope that pupils will be curious and motivated to learn more.     

Learning Challenge Curriculum
What makes our curriculum different?

Here are just a few reasons why you should choose the Learning Challenge Curriculum:

High Quality

It effectively provides a sequence of learning for these three subjects using the National Curriculum as its reference points. These sequences are then supported by activities which effectively helps staff to focus on the main learning in each of the subjects and to create tasks and activities that will help pupils know more and remember more.

Substantive and Disciplinary Knowledge

We have endeavoured to create a narrative for each subject with knowledge being built on progressively as pupils move through the school. This knowledge needs to take account of ‘disciplinary knowledge’ as well as ‘substantive knowledge’ so that pupils are supported not just to ‘know and remember’ but also ‘to do.’

Saves Time

All units have full schemes of work covering the Science, History or Geography element, with internet links to add to the learning. It guarantees coverage of the National Curriculum in Science, History, Geography, Art and Design Technology.

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The Learning Challenge Curriculum contains all the tools needed to plan a stimulating and rich curriculum which meets the needs of your children.

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Nurseries, Primary Schools and Middle Schools

I just wanted to say thank you. We have started to use your Geography and History curriculum. We love the knowledge organisers and I'm so pleased to have something that is structured but that teachers have to be creative with too. It is a perfect balance between scheme input and teachers planning. Thank you

"I truly believe that you and your team have created an excellent framework which will fire the imagination of teaching teams. Thank you for sharing this. This resource will be an absolute hit with schools nationally - well done!"

For the past few years we have followed Focus Education’s Learning Challenge Curriculum for Science, History and Geography and we absolutely love it! It’s super engaging, allows for challenge and most importantly is fun for us to teach!!! Would never look back now!

"All staff are thrilled with the Learning Challenge Curriculum as a resource, and having you to give it background and context was amazing. We worked yesterday on developing our planning ideas, combined with a recovery curriculum, specifically designed for our children in September. Staff are genuinely enthused by the curriculum content and I know this will ‘rub off’ and inspire our children."

"I would just like to say how inspired I was today (as was my colleague) by the 'challenge curriculum'. So much so, that I went straight back into school and discussed this with our head, who, after my excited ranting about how amazing I believe taking this approach to the curriculum could be for our school, also feels that this is something we should definitely explore further!"