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What do a city in the north of Italy and the suburbs of South Yorkshire have in common?<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Answer:<\/strong> They both played a part in the beginnings of Cornerstones. Read our story to learn more!<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h6>\n

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IN THE BEGINNING<\/h3>\n

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A need for change <\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

In 2010, after years of the QCA schemes of work, the national strategies and pressure to teach to SATs, our founder Simon, like many other <\/span>primary <\/span>heads at the time, <\/span>witnessed<\/span> a slow and creeping narrowing of his school’s curriculum, a decrease in teacher motivation and a lack of children’s engagement in their learning. For Simon, something needed to change and fast.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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For Mel, a visit to the Schools of Early Childhood in Reggio Emilia, northern Italy, inspired change. Spending time in Reggio’s classrooms, Mel saw how creative approaches to knowledge acquisition, community involvement, and using beautiful resources led to exceptional learning outcomes and a happy and purposeful workforce.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \n

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For Mel, a visit to the Schools of Early Childhood in Reggio Emilia, northern Italy, inspired change. Spending time in Reggio’s classrooms, Mel saw how creative approaches to knowledge acquisition, community involvement, and using beautiful resources led to exceptional learning outcomes and a happy and purposeful workforce.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n \n

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Each inspired by their own experiences, <\/span>Mel<\/span> and Simon’s desire to do something different became Cornerstones Education. Their ambition? To provide a broad and balanced curriculum, beautiful resources, top-notch support, and the necessary tools and tech teachers need, to reclaim their freedom to teach.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \n

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Each inspired by their own experiences, <\/span>Mel<\/span> and Simon’s desire to do something different became Cornerstones Education. Their ambition? To provide a broad and balanced curriculum, beautiful resources, top-notch support, and the necessary tools and tech teachers need, to reclaim their freedom to teach.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n \n

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From acorns to oak trees <\/h3>\n <\/div>\n \n
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The first Cornerstones curriculum was launched in 2011. This first curriculum was paper-based and had a multi-disciplinary approach – giving schools the necessary enrichment. In 2014, with the introduction of a new national curriculum, we launched our second version, this time with teaching resources and on our first online platform, The Hub.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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As the educational landscape changed, with the rise of cognitive research and the move towards a more knowledge-led curriculum, we created our most up-to-date sequenced curriculum. To give schools maximum flexibility and address the growing burden of teacher workload, we developed Maestro’s timesaving, workload-reducing technology.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \n

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The first Cornerstones curriculum was launched in 2011. This first curriculum was paper-based and had a multi-disciplinary approach – giving schools the necessary enrichment. In 2014, with the introduction of a new national curriculum, we launched our second version, this time with teaching resources and on our first online platform, The Hub.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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As the educational landscape changed, with the rise of cognitive research and the move towards a more knowledge-led curriculum, we created our most up-to-date sequenced curriculum. To give schools maximum flexibility and address the growing burden of teacher workload, we developed Maestro’s timesaving, workload-reducing technology.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n \n

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Today, we offer two curriculum models: a multi-disciplinary, more creative model and a sequenced, knowledge-rich curriculum. This, along with <\/span>hundreds of teaching resources, single subject schemes and the functionality<\/span> of Maestro, has <\/span>seen Cornerstones<\/span> continue to grow<\/span> and meet the needs of an increasing number of primary schools<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span> So, while our intentions <\/span>remain<\/span> the same as at the start of our story, our means of achieving them have changed for the better.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \n

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Today, we offer two curriculum models: a multi-disciplinary, more creative model and a sequenced, knowledge-rich curriculum. This, along with <\/span>hundreds of teaching resources, single subject schemes and the functionality<\/span> of Maestro, has <\/span>seen Cornerstones<\/span> continue to grow<\/span> and meet the needs of an increasing number of primary schools<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span> So, while our intentions <\/span>remain<\/span> the same as at the start of our story, our means of achieving them have changed for the better.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n \n

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“Curriculum Maestro has been central to the development of our curriculum as a very small school with mixed-age classes. Our workload has decreased, and it is partly down to Maestro that we achieved our latest Ofsted curriculum recognition.”<\/h5>\n\n
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