This document formed part of the response to the QCA Consultation on the proposals to change the primary curriculum.

A Classroom Observation Protocol: Guidelines For NUT School Representatives

This document provides up-dated professional advice and guidance to members who work in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). The Early Years Foundation Stage Profile was launched in September 2008 and replaces the Foundation Stage Profile, which teachers have been using since 2003. The document sets out the requirements on teachers and schools relating to the Profile and suggests ways in which workload arising from it could be reduced.

This document is the NUT’s written response to the independent Primary Review, undertaken by the University of Cambridge. It sets out NUT policy on all aspects of primary education, including curriculum and assessment; teaching and learning; staffing and organisation; and funding and governance. A separate summary document contains the NUT’s recommendations for future policy development.

This guidance for divisions sets out the possible implications for members in primary schools of the introduction of Modern Foreign Languages into the curriculum.

The briefing provides divisions with information and guidance on the Intensifying Support Programme. The ISP is a school improvement programme designed to raise standards and improve teaching and learning in the primary sector. The aim of the programme is to draw together existing good teaching and learning practice in schools.

This document provides advice to division secretaries about the changes to the National Strategies for Literacy, including phonics, and Numeracy. It can be used for answering members’ enquiries on the changes to the revised Primary Framework for Literacy and Mathematics and on the DCSF advice on phonic work and choosing an effective phonics programme.

The purpose of this resource book is to provide further information and guidance on issues raised in the NUT play policy document Time to Play?