ABSTRACT
It was a forty-seven year curriculum roundabout. It began with unsupervised freedom, excitement at adventurous explorations. The curriculum moved through investing the traditional with the progressive, only to revert to the traditional as required by the LEA, and then to deliberate consolidation for self-preservation, largely induced by parental choice and competition. The government’s prescribed National Curriculum came next, simultaneously with the school’s imaginative ‘reach for the skies’ information technology initiative. Then came a falling star, and a phoenix-like recovery, only to be reorganized again by the LEA and disappear into uncertainty in a ‘soft federation’.
