Overview

Tanglin’s 3-14 Curriculum Framework

Overview:

Tanglin has developed its own curriculum framework from Nursery to Year 9 (students aged 3 to 14). The overall aims of the framework are to: (i) ensure clear, planned progression across the whole school, within each subject discipline (ii) ensure that the curriculum is relevant to our students and our Tanglin context (iii) provide the best possible foundations for the Upper School and the Sixth Form, at Tanglin or elsewhere.

The new framework has 5 'Milestones'; the first at the end of Year 1 and then at two-year intervals up to the end of Year 9.

For the academic year 2021-22, the framework is being used in all subjects up to Year 6 (the first year of Milestone 4) and in a pilot group of subjects – English, History, Music, Computer Science – in Year 8 (the first year of Milestone 5) For each subject, the Framework consists of the following 3 elements:

Threshold Concepts The key concepts or ‘big ideas’ of the subject; these are the concepts that we want our students to develop a deep understanding of as they progress through the school.

Knowledge Categories The areas of knowledge within each concept area. Milestone Statements What all students should know and be able to do at the end of each milestone, organised by Concept and Knowledge Category.