Create a bespoke and exciting curriculum that works for YOU and YOUR children

“Since joining Focus Education, I have never been disappointed or looked back. The wealth and expertise that has gone into planning the curriculum ensures that this is easily adopted by any school and tailored to meet the needs of children. They are constantly looking at how they can further improve and have always maintained their high levels of communication and support. The cost for such a high quality curriculum is fantastic and affordable for even the tightest of current budgets.”

“Our schools are really enjoying the new recycling unit in Year 1, and the ‘what happens at an airport?’ inspired a school trip to Humberside Airport, who showed the children how the luggage belts worked and security etc. Please pass on a huge thank you to the Focus Education team, as our children are engaged, enthused and eager to learn.”

“My team were really impressed with the changes that have been made to the site and the resources, and we’re also excited for the upcoming additions in September.”

“Recently, we had the pleasure of attending a highly informative training session led by Alex from Focus Education on the topic of “Ensuring Your Curriculum is Progressive.” This session was perfectly timed (integrated into our normal staff meeting time), for both our new and existing staff members as we embark on a new academic year, providing invaluable insights and strategies to enhance our curriculum offer. The session sparked great food for thought amongst our curriculum team, empowering us to critically assess and refine our educational approaches. Moreover, we greatly appreciated the follow-up link and resources shared with us for those unable to attend. This ensures that all staff can access and benefit from the key takeaways, making the experience inclusive and beneficial for everyone. As always, we are grateful for the ongoing support from Focus Education in helping us develop and enhance our curriculum offer. Their expertise is instrumental in our journey towards delivering a progressive and impactful educational experience for our Lenthall Learners.”

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!

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

“The original and consequent curriculum documents for foundation subjects have been invaluable in shaping our curriculum as a school.”

“Everyone has been really enjoying their new units and the students are really engaged with these lessons this year. The students are really enjoying seeing what they will learn next.”

“The resources are amazing. This will save my teachers so much time. They can literally just download a unit and teach.”

“I have used the old learning challenge curriculum for years. I recently moved schools and decided to introduce it in my new school. I thought I was using it before but the changes you have made are incredible. It’s really moved on.”

“Every school should be using this curriculum. The children are excited by it and the teachers enjoy teaching it.”

“The Focus Learning Challenge Curriculum is great and Focus Education is a company I’ve adored for years.”

“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!”

“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 am delighted to say that OfSTED were most positive about the Learning Challenge Curriculum which was just great for all our staff and children.”

“OfSTED said we were a good school because “A rich, broad curriculum provides pupils with stimulating learning opportunities which motivate them as learners”. I am so pleased we have taken on the work you started as it has really moved our school on.”

“Just to let you know that following our regional prize for “What Makes The Earth Angry?” (part of the Learning Challenge Curriculum), we won the UK National title for the Total Green School Awards. I thought you would be interested to know as all the work stemmed directly from the Learning Challenge Curriculum.”

“I just wanted you to know that we felt that was one of the most worthwhile days we have had in moving our thinking about our curriculum forward. Your experience and knowledge is invaluable, as were the resources. All very useful.”

“I just wanted to pass on the very positive impact working with Focus has had on our school. We have worked with your consultant and introduced the Learning Challenge Curriculum this year; it is already showing an impact in terms of levels of pupil engagement, curiosity etc.”

“The Learning Challenge Curriculum struck us immediately as the right way to progress! The curriculum uses pre-learning tasks, to ensure that children are directly involved in the planning process – which in its turn allows teachers to gauge exactly where the learning need lies.”

“I tried my first learning challenge lesson today, and it was fantastic. We are in a very deprived area, where language is a real issue, however the mixed ability group I was working with managed to devise their own question and the talk that came out of it was amazing. So thank you.”

“Thank you so much for these and the other documents and for your time over the two days you were at my school. As well as now feeling more confident that we have a curriculum model for History and Geography that will meet the needs of our children, we also have a rubric from which to work as we further develop curriculum plans and schemes of work for the other subjects.”

“I just wanted to sincerely pass on our thanks and appreciation for Thursday’s Zoom meeting. All staff are thrilled with the Learning Challenge Curriculum as a resource, and having you to give it background and context was amazing. We decided to fully embrace the mixed age planning document, so we are all sticking to the cycle A plan as you have written it, and we love the schemes of work for the science and geography units. 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. So, a huge thanks once again!”

“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!”

“Substantive, disciplinary knowledge and golden threads are most useful. Was unaware that the website had been updated with extra info re visuals for substantive and disciplinary knowledge – will be looking into those. Loved the visuals for tracking golden threads.”

“It’s useful to have examples of how substantive and disciplinary knowledge are woven into the curriculum and not overloading the units.”