Poor Romans! They don’t want to be ‘done’ to. And the same applies to Judaism, poetry, volcanos etc. Instead, we need to talk about ‘teaching about’ the Romans and the other units. Why does this matter?

The curriculum is a never-ending story.

In the quality of education judgement, the school inspection handbook states that ‘inspectors will consider the extent to which the school’s curriculum sets out the knowledge and skills that pupils will gain at each stage (we call this ‘intent’).