• Meet the new masters of the curriculum

    Academy trusts are leading the way with curriculum development, but it comes at a price. Here, Schools Week looks at what’s being done, whether it’s working and whether the results should be free When Ark announced it was developing Ark Curriculum Plus, a new curriculum to cover “all the major subjects, including music, science and geography”,…

    7.00 Mar. 10th, 2019 | News

  • Ark Schools moves into the curriculum market

    Ark Schools is developing a school curriculum programme covering “all the major subjects” that it plans to sell to other schools. The trust’s accounts say Ark Curriculum Plus will build on the success of Ark’s Mathematics Mastery and English Mastery curricula, which are used by hundreds of schools around the country. The move into the…

    7.00 Feb. 2nd, 2019 | News

  • GMB: Ark's wealthy donors should bail out their struggling school

    Wealthy supporters of one of England’s largest academy trusts should dip into their own pockets to help a struggling school avert 38 job losses, a union has said. The GMB union – which represents school support staff – has urged Ark Schools to call off redundancy proposals at Burlington Danes Academy in Shepherds Bush in London.…

    17.23 Jun. 29th, 2018 | News