An open letter

Via Bennie Kara on LinkedIn, who was involved with Oak National's work and led some of the training that I attended when we started on the 2 year Oak project.

She shared a link to an open letter on the composition of the curriculum drafting groups following the Curriculum and Assessment Review. 

She said:

It has been sent to the DfE and to Professor Becky Francis. The Review rightly acknowledges that what is taught in our schools — and how — shapes belonging, relevance, and trust in education. Our collective concern is whether the process of curriculum drafting currently reflects those same principles. 

This letter is not a critique of the expertise or integrity of those already involved. It is a call for greater transparency and broader representation across phase, region, lived experience, and background — so that curriculum reform is built with the profession and the communities it serves. 

If we want a national curriculum that speaks to all children in modern Britain, the process of creating it must reflect the breadth of their lives.

I will be very interested to see what happens in the next stage of this important process which will shape the education of millions for a decade or more to come...