What is curriculum delivery?
It’s how you teach the curriculum you’ve planned.
It includes:
- Teaching methods
- Classroom resources
- The sequencing and structure of lessons
- Assessment
- Additional interventions and catch-up strategies
Note: Ofsted previously used the term ‘curriculum implementation’ but now uses the term ‘curriculum delivery’ in its toolkits under the 2025 framework. Find out more about how Ofsted will inspect your curriculum and teaching.
Curriculum delivery comes after curriculum design
Curriculum design is what you want pupils to learn, and delivery is how you go about teaching it. So, you need to have designed your curriculum first.
See our audit tool for curriculum design to make sure you’re happy with it, before starting an audit of your curriculum delivery. You should try to do these audits fairly close together, to get a sense of any issues in your curriculum from both angles.
Gather evidence before you complete the audit
Observations