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Developing spiritual, moral, social and cultural education
How can we develop spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) education? This article includes Department for Education guidance on the requirements for SMSC provision, and advice on ways to develop SMSC provision. You will also find a case study from a teaching school.
- Anti-racism: how to review and re-frame your curriculum
- Bloom's Taxonomy: summaries
- Classroom displays: effective practice
- Covering LGBT content in your curriculum
- Curriculum maps: templates and examples
- Curriculum provision in PRUs and APs
- Curriculum resources: achieving value for money
- Developing a growth mindset across a school
- Developing a resilience curriculum
- English genres in the National Curriculum
- How to check your curriculum is accessible for pupils with SEND
- How to design a curriculum
- How to review your curriculum
- Implementing a knowledge-based curriculum
- National Curriculum schemes of work (primary)
- PE teaching hours: guidance and examples
- Promoting British values in the curriculum
- Quality first teaching: guidance
- Relationships and sex education: how to audit your curriculum
- Requests to withdraw a pupil from RE
- School reopening and getting learning back on track: where to start
- Sex and relationship education: schemes of work
- Thematic curriculum structures: advice and examples
- Withdrawing pupils from subjects
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