The start point for every improvement
The SMARTcurriculum Approach
Curriculum Strategy Review & Implementation
Is your curriculum aligned with your trust’s vision for sustainable growth and long-term impact?
At SMARTcurriculum Ltd, we provide expert consultancy to support Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) in reviewing, refining, and implementing strategic curriculum models that drive both educational excellence and operational sustainability. Our approach ensures that curriculum structures, leadership strategies, and resource allocations are fully aligned to deliver the best outcomes for learners while reinforcing the trust’s core values and long-term vision.
Curriculum Strategy Review & Implementation
Is your curriculum aligned with your trust’s vision for sustainable growth and long-term impact?
At SMARTcurriculum Ltd, we provide expert consultancy to support Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) in reviewing, refining, and implementing strategic curriculum models that drive both educational excellence and operational sustainability. Our approach ensures that curriculum structures, leadership strategies, and resource allocations are fully aligned to deliver the best outcomes for learners while reinforcing the trust’s core values and long-term vision.
We offer:
✅ Curriculum Strategy Reviews – evaluating curriculum design, impact, and alignment with trust-wide goals.
✅ Implementation Support – translating strategy into action through leadership development, staffing structures, and resource planning.
✅ Data-Driven Insights – leveraging SMARTcurriculum analytics to inform decision-making and ensure efficiency.
✅ Governance & Strategic Alignment – ensuring the curriculum reflects and reinforces the trust’s mission, values, and long-term priorities.
✅ Curriculum Impact & Inclusion Reviews – linking curriculum design to attendance, behaviour, and SEND strategies, ensuring accessibility and engagement for all learners.
Our consultancy is designed for MAT leadership teams, including CEOs, Executive Heads, and Trustees, equipping them with the strategic insight needed to make informed curriculum decisions. With our deep expertise in curriculum-led financial planning, school improvement, and leadership development, we help MATs move beyond reactive planning towards sustainable, scalable, and impactful curriculum implementation.
Partner with SMARTcurriculum Ltd to build a curriculum that delivers excellence, equity, and efficiency.
Curriculum Review
A SMARTcurriculum Curriculum Review is a structured, data-driven analysis of a school's curriculum model to ensure financial sustainability and educational impact. By mapping staffing costs against pupil needs, schools gain clarity on inefficiencies, such as misaligned contact ratios or curriculum over-provision.
Curriculum Review
A SMARTcurriculum Curriculum Review is a structured, data-driven analysis of a school's curriculum model to ensure financial sustainability and educational impact. By mapping staffing costs against pupil needs, schools gain clarity on inefficiencies, such as misaligned contact ratios or curriculum over-provision. The review enables leaders to make informed decisions about subject offers, class sizes, and staffing structures, optimising workforce deployment while maintaining quality education. Using benchmark comparisons and cost-per-period analysis, the review helps schools move towards a financially sustainable curriculum, balancing efficiency with student outcomes. This approach ensures resources are allocated where they deliver the greatest impact. Using the SMARTcurriculum Analytics online platform adds benefit to the continual review and management processes once an initial perspective is achieved.
School Improvement Review
A School Improvement Review identifies opportunities that can be used as a basis for school improvement or pre-inspection preparation. SMARTcurriculum specialists have blended years of school leadership experience with detailed academic research to develop a school improvement model that is practical to implement.School Improvement Review
A School Improvement Review identifies opportunities that can be used as a basis for school improvement or pre-inspection preparation. SMARTcurriculum specialists have blended years of school leadership experience with detailed academic research to develop a school improvement model that is practical to implement.
Focusing on the quality of systems, teaching and leadership, your start point can be anywhere in his cycle, but you can transform your school and the life chances of every learner with simple improvement steps.
SEND Review
Our detailed SEND Reviews use a nationally recognised framework to evaluate the quality of SEND provision and enable school leaders to plan effective improvement strategies.
SEND Review
Our detailed SEND Reviews use a nationally recognised framework to evaluate the quality of SEND provision and enable school leaders to plan effective improvement strategies. SENDCo mentoring facilitates rapid improvement. Our experts have over 20 years’ experience leading SEND across schools in different settings.
Attendance Review
There is compelling evidence from the DfE's Attendance Data that moving a child from the 90% to 94.9% bracket of attendance to the 95% plus bracket could raise their English and Maths results by one whole grade. Our Attendance Reviews go beyond traditional audits, developing insightful and innovative solutions to make schools a place learners want to be.
Attendance Review
There is compelling evidence from the DfE's Attendance Data that moving a child from the 90% to 94.9% bracket of attendance to the 95% plus bracket could raise their English and Maths results by one whole grade. Our Attendance Reviews go beyond traditional audits, developing insightful and innovative solutions to make schools a place learners want to be.
School attendance is now a pressing issue nationally. Department for Education data shows that 2.3% of pupils were ‘severely absent’ in 2023-24, up from 2.0% in 2022-23, with a record 170,000 children in England missing at least half of classes in 2024. Traditional approaches to improving attendance are not having the immediate impact required.
SMARTcurriculum Attendance reviews address the pull factors, as well as the push factors that cause barriers to good attendance, developing strategies for improvement that work within your context. Our attendance specialists will work with you to develop strategies that will make a real difference in your organisation.
Case study example: City Academy Norwich
"Thanks to SMARTcurriculum’s insights, attendance has risen by 6% over two years, persistent absence has dropped by 20%, and student achievement has improved. Working with SMARTcurriculum, we restructured our timetable and curriculum model, resulting in almost halved suspensions, reduced truancy, and improved student engagement."
Take control of your school's attendance challenges.
Informed by the latest research and decades of experience
Our SMARTcurriculum Standards specialists work with schools on quality of systems, teaching and leadership. Our model is informed by the work of Professor David Hopkins, Professor John Hattie, Mick Waters and other senior figures in the academic world and allows you to ‘enter’ at any point and at any stage of the improvement journey by using a diagnostic tool with a range of indicators and measures.
