Kapow Primary review by Kate
Date: 07.07.2022A good range of styles, and artists covered...
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Within the computing planning there is a very clear progression of skills which spans across both key stages. A weakness would be that the extensions are sometimes lacking....
READIt is fairly comprehensive in its approach and has lots of resources and appropriate planning that is always useful across the school....
READWell resourced, easy to follow. Ready to pick up and teach. It can however be a little prescriptive and places a ceiling on creativity. It’s essential that teachers add and amend the lessons to get maximum outcomes....
READBroad range of ideas to encourage children’s creativity and exploring mediums. Some of the activities they suggest do not flow well enough for me, I like to see a build up of skill to final piece and Kapow for me wasn’t hitting that....
READThe strengths are the layout and clarity if the resource. The weakness is that it is limited and if it does not fit your topic it is possibly not usable. ...
READClear coverage that matches to national curriculum and shows progression ...
READMakes art fun for kids and teachers. Teachers who struggled before don’t now....
READCovers key skills and knowledge of the music curriculum. Lesson plans are very useful especially for non specialist music teachers....
READHas all the lesson ideas provided, matched to the curriculum, with videos for pupils and teachers. Good for teachers who are useless with art. Weakness is I don''t often like the structure - the lessons don''t always build on each other...
READExcellent coverage and great for staff to access ...
READSlightly too restrictive though...
READTeacher videos are provided for subject knowledge and their is progression of skills for the scheme of learning. The PPTs are limited in content and so teacher workload is higher than I’d like it to be ...
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