Curriculum (all phases)
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Deliver remote learning
- Remote and hybrid learning: when and how should you use it? Understand the requirements around providing remote learning, when you should offer it and what you need to do to prepare. Plus, read tips about how to make remote learning work best for your school.
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Structuring the curriculum
- Alternative provision: curriculum requirements and examples Alternative provision (AP) settings, including pupil referral units (PRUs), aren't required to follow the National Curriculum, but they do have to provide a good alternative curriculum. Find out what this includes, and see examples of curriculum offers from PRUs and AP academies.
- Anti-racism: how to review and re-frame your curriculum Learn how to make diversity central to your curriculum, not just a bolt on, and make sure BAME history and achievements are taught all year round. Download our review tool and use it to question and adapt what you’re teaching so your curriculum accurately represents Britain's diversity.
- Black History Month: ideas and resources October is Black History Month (BHM). Use these ideas and resources to help you celebrate Black history, heritage and culture, and to make sure your curriculum and school is diverse and inclusive all year round.
- Bloom's Taxonomy: summary and use Get to grips with Bloom's Taxonomy, and see examples from schools on how to apply the principles in lesson planning and teaching.
- Covering LGBTQ+ content in your curriculum Find out how to weave LGBTQ+ content into your curriculum to make it more inclusive and meet the DfE's expectations.
- Cultural capital: how to weave it into your curriculum Find out how to make sure your cultural capital offering reflects your school values and community. See examples of how primary, secondary and special schools are weaving cultural capital into their curriculum and get tips on organising activities.
- Curriculum accessibility for pupils with SEND: checklist To help pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) reach their full potential, they first must have equal access to your curriculum. Use our checklist to stay compliant with the Equality Act and SEND regulations.
- Curriculum audit: gender and LGBTQ+ inclusivity Use our curriculum audit to help instil a cross-curricular sense of inclusivity, and question and adapt what you’re teaching so your curriculum represents the diversity seen in modern Britain in terms of gender and sexuality.
- Curriculum maps: templates and examples Understand what curriculum maps are for and how to make sure they are useful. Download and adapt our curriculum map templates to save you the hassle of creating your own, and see examples from other schools.
- Curriculum requirements: academies If you're reviewing or updating your curriculum, find out what you need to cover to stay compliant with requirements and meet DfE expectations.
- Curriculum requirements: maintained schools All maintained schools must follow the National Curriculum. If you're reviewing or updating your curriculum, find out what you need to cover to stay compliant with requirements and meet DfE expectations.
- English genres in the National Curriculum Maintained schools must cover the genres of literature and writing set out in the National Curriculum. Learn what genres you have to teach for reading and writing in Key Stages (KS) 1 to 4, and see examples of curriculum maps from primary, secondary and special schools.
- High-quality teaching to support pupils with SEND Support pupils with SEND through high-quality teaching, also known as quality first teaching, as required in the SEND Code of Practice.
- How to design a curriculum Be clear on how to design an effective curriculum with this guidance on 3 core principles to bear in mind, plus resources and examples to help you improve your curriculum design.
- How to develop an outstanding music provision Understand what the government expects of you as part of its national plan for music education. Know what you should do to create a music development plan, and how to work with your music hub and improve your music curriculum.
- How to embed sustainability into your curriculum: case study Corbridge Middle School is on a journey to embed sustainability throughout its curriculum and promotes a focus on the environment across its school. See how the leaders there did it and find resources to learn how you can make this happen too.
- How to make your curriculum and lessons accessible and inclusive Get advice on how to make your curriculum accessible and inclusive for any pupils who are disabled or neurodivergent. Understand how to make sure all pupils are represented in your teaching materials and displays.
- How to promote British values across your school Get tips on how best to incorporate British values into your school, both through the curriculum and holistically through your wider culture, vision and ethos. Download our list of questions to help you review your current approach.
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How to review curriculum alignment across your trust
There's no single right way to do it. Use our questions and download our audit tool to help you review your trust curriculum alignment, and to decide what approach you'll take in the future.
For Trust Leaders
- How to review your curriculum Use our step-by-step guide to review your curriculum, whatever stage you're at.
- Implementing a knowledge-rich curriculum Understand what a knowledge-rich curriculum is and prepare for common challenges you might face when implementing one. See approaches from 3 schools to help you get started.
- LGBT+ History Month: assembly resources February is LGBT+ History Month. Use these assembly resources to help you talk to your pupils about the experiences of people who are LGBTQ+, and to support your relationships and sex education (RSE) curriculum.
- PE teaching hours: guidance and examples It's up to you how many hours of PE your school teaches each week. Find out how many hours the DfE's healthy schools rating scheme recommends, and take a look at how much PE other schools teach.
- Relationships and sex education (RSE): curriculum audit Use our audit tool to find out which of the RSE requirements you’re meeting already and where there are gaps you need to fill.
- Requests to withdraw a pupil from RE Parents can choose to withdraw their children from religious education (RE) lessons. Find out what you're required to do if this happens, and how this may affect school trips to places of worship.
- Whole-school curriculum audit Use our audit tool to help you look at the big picture when it comes to your curriculum, so you can make sure you’re offering your pupils a broad and balanced education.
- Withdrawing pupils from subjects Find out which subjects parents can withdraw their children from and how these rules apply to maintained schools, academies and independent schools. Plus, get advice on disapplying pupils from the National Curriculum.
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Subject monitoring
- Classroom provision for pupils with SEND: checklist Use our checklist to determine whether your classrooms are suitable learning environments for pupils with SEND, including dyslexia, ADHD, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD).
- Evaluate your subject/department: SEF checklist Download and adapt our checklist to evaluate the effectiveness of your subject or department. It's divided into the 2019 Ofsted framework judgements, and is designed to work alongside our curriculum evaluation tools.
- How to do your own subject deep dive Follow our step-by-step guide to help you collaborate with staff to carry out your own subject deep dive, with a view to making improvements to your curriculum.
- Planning scrutiny: template Download and customise our template to help you scrutinise teachers' general and topic-specific plans.
- Pupil-led work scrutinies: guidance and example questions Find out how to make sure your pupil-led work scrutinies are set up for success. Download our example questions to help staff embed pupil voice into the process.
- SMSC audit: template and examples Use our template to audit your spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) provision, and look at examples of completed audits from schools.
- Work scrutiny: how-to and template UpdatedFollow these steps to make sure your work scrutinies have an impact and lead to improvements in your school.
