National Curriculum 

Every state-funded school must offer a curriculum which is balanced and broadly based and which:

 

•promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of pupils at the school and of society

•prepares pupils at the school for the opportunities, responsibilities and    experiences of later life. 

 

The school curriculum comprises all learning and other experiences that each school plans for its pupils.

 

The national curriculum forms one part of the school curriculum. 

 

The National Curriculum sets out:

 

1.The subjects that schools have to teach

2.The content of each subject (Programmes of Study)

3.When children are to be assessed

 

 

All state-funded schools in England are legally required to follow the statutory national curriculum which sets out in programmes of study, on the basis of key stages, subject content for those subjects that should be taught to all pupils. 

 

All schools must publish their school curriculum by subject and academic year online.

 

 

The national curriculum aims to provide pupils with an introduction to the essential knowledge that they need to be educated citizens.

 

It aims to introduce pupils to the best that has been thought and said, and to promote an appreciation of human creativity and achievement.