A lesson planning phenomenon...

Your teachers already have great resources and lesson plans but now your whole school can benefit from them to consistantly meet learning requirements, using the newly enhanced SIMS Curriculum & Lesson Planner.

Teachers can produce a Study Topic and lesson plans from scratch, or simply import ready-made plans or ‘study units’, available from many Local Authorities (LAs), Department for Education and Skills, and other web sites. Teaching resources, such as worksheets, presentations or pupil mark sheets, can be created in the software and attached to the lesson plan, so that everything that a teacher requires for each lesson is accessible from one page. The plan itself can be linked electronically to a secondary school’s timetable or a primary school’s individual teacher plans, so that a permanent logical record of all classes throughout the school year is available. This allows teachers to reduce the time spent transcribing information from one source to another, and focus more of their planning time and enhancing their lesson plans.

The lessons can all be linked to the National Curriculum and National Strategy requirements and the Schemes of Work objectives. Curriculum and Lesson Planner comes with all the National Curriculum, National Literacy Strategy, National Numeracy Strategy, Foundation Stage Strategy requirements to objective levels. Additionally all the Standards Site Programme of Study objectives are present within the module. It is also possible to edit and add your own objectives, where desired. This enables reports to show curriculum coverage for classes and to highlight any elements requiring attention.

The module works seamlessly with SIMS, Capita Children's Services’ Information Management System, used by 22,000 schools. From the lesson plan, the teacher can log pupils’ grades, attendance, or any behavioural remarks or incidents, which are saved directly into the record keeping banks of SIMS. This ensures that there is no repetition in data entry, and allows for a permanent record of the effectiveness of teaching over the course of the year, or over multiple years.

The plans are accessible to be modified and re-used in future years, or as a valuable reference if a teacher is unavailable and someone must take their class. Teachers with subject responsibilities, Heads of department and senior management staff can create the annual Programmes of Study for their subject areas and it is then possible for individual teachers to copy and amend the lessons for their own groups where desired. It is possible to review curriculum plans, lesson plans or even detailed materials at any time and to analyse the coverage of learning objectives. This supports schools seeking more holistic planning across the school.

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Fig 1: Full NC and QCA Scheme of work objectives already available

Fig 2: A study unit automatically imported from the QCA Geography Scheme of Work

Fig 3: The Curriculum Plan for an Academic Year for the whole school set of cohorts and subjects.