Curriculum and Assessment:
All pupils in Maintained Schools follow the National Curriculum (NC) between the age of 5 and 16. It provides programmes for all kinds of subjects, not the order in which you teach students. In the first year, before the NC they are taught read, write and sum.
The Primary Schools NC identifies the following skills as essentials for learning and life:
The Primary Schools NC identifies the following skills as essentials for learning and life:
- literacy
- numeracy and ICT capability
- learning and thinking skills
- personal and emotional skills
- social skills
- understanding of arts
- understanding English, communication and languages
- historical, geographical and social understanding
- mathematical understanding
- understanding physical development, health and wellbeing
- scientific and technological understanding