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How often as leaders do we hear – ‘I wish I had more time to invest in bringing learning to life across the non-core primary curriculum?’ “I need more time to develop my subject area. I’m struggling to support colleagues with content and lesson plans that meet the needs of all the children in our school. Help!”

Beyond easily stated buzzwords and concepts like “nurture creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving, and adaptability” the curriculum deployed in your settings should move beyond traditional rote learning to emphasise skills and mindsets in pupils which will help them to flourish and thrive in a rapidly changing world. Is the pursuit of the right image or video file to support a science lesson holding your best thinkers and innovators back from making the biggest impact as subject leaders? That’s where the Lion Learning Pathways steps in. 

In our partner schools, innovative opportunities are planned across the Pathways curriculum - and from this starting point,  leaders demonstrate and articulate the enhanced, locally relevant opportunities to increase: 

Hands-on Learning: Encouraging inquiry-based learning where pupils focus on asking questions, conducting investigations, and using evidence to support conclusions. The Pathways even brings these opportunities in subject areas where this can be more challenging to support - like D&T, PE and Art and Design. 

Coding & Digital Literacy: Sequentially introducing basic programming and digital tools to cultivate computational thinking and technology fluency - all alongside ensuring that opportunities to engage with VR, immersive technologies and AI are all embedded in every subject, across the curriculum.

Learner-led creativity: Exposing pupils to visual arts, music, drama, and design thinking. This helps pupils to develop original ideas and express themselves in unique ways - working creatively across all subject areas - especially History, Science, Geography to use creativity to showcase their passion for learning. 

Project-Based Learning: Allowing pupils to create projects that combine subjects like science, math, and art fosters creativity and problem-solving - and where these opportunities are mapped to an extraordinary degree to free up your teams to shape these for your cohorts and to meet your local requirements. 

Collaborative Problem-Solving: Encouraging teamwork and group activities where pupils solve challenges together, learning from diverse perspectives. With links to prior learning set out clearly in every lesson plan, pupils from all ages are able to visually connect what they learnt previously to the work being undertaken in class - so learning happens more efficiently and effectively - freeing up teacher-time to lead and support new subject materials. 

Design Thinking: Introducing pupils to the design thinking process—empathise, define, ideate, prototype, test—as a way to creatively address problems. The level of detail and creativity in the LLP D&T curriculum makes the teaching of this to all ages accessible, secure and readily adaptable by your teaching team. 

Mini-Enterprises or Innovation Labs: Providing pupils with opportunities to create small projects, simulate businesses, or design inventions to solve problems in their communities.

Global Citizenship Education: Fostering an understanding of global issues like climate change, inequality, and cultural diversity. This helps pupils appreciate different perspectives and think about solutions to global challenges. We have even mapped all aspects of SMSC in the curriculum separately (subject by subject) - as a guide for teams to implement and build from - it’s all in one place and all ready to be deployed. 

Environmental Education: Integrating sustainability into lessons, encouraging pupils to think innovatively about preserving natural resources and solving environmental problems.

Communication and collaboration: Emphasising communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking. There are hundreds of activities planned as a starting point that promote group work, public speaking, and digital communication are essential. Our entire curriculum is based on active learning with talk partners and getting children engaged and leading on their learning. Starting from nursery, by the time they leave KS2 - they’re confident, articulate learners with the skills and confidence to lead the way. 

Integrative Learning: Blurring the lines between subjects allows pupils to see how different fields of knowledge interconnect. For instance, math might be integrated with art through geometry, or science with literature through storytelling about discoveries. 

Real-World Relevance: Contextualising learning around real-world problems or scenarios, making subjects more engaging and relevant to pupils’ lives and future careers.

Maker Spaces: Providing structured suggestions for teachers in every subject about how to integrate your wider estate into class learning - e.g.  access to 3D printers, coding tools, VR Headsets and even AI - helps to  foster creativity and invention in young minds.

Time saved? Teams supported? Tools and structures for every subject robustly in place from day 1? The  Lion Learning Pathways provides the solution to free up more time for teachers with a fully digitally curated curriculum as a significant starting point for innovation.  It has been developed by teachers, for teachers.  With extensive collaborative learning opportunities already overlaid with fully sign-posted integration of technologies, not just as an add-on, but core to the overall teaching and learning offer, our curriculum prepares pupils to embrace adaptive change with ease.

To find out more please contact aaron@lionpathways.net or visit www.lionpathways.net