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How to review your curriculum
Use our step-by-step guide to review your curriculum, whatever stage you're at.
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How to use this article
- Read this to get a broad overview of the steps you'll need to take to review your curriculum from start to finish
- You may want to skip some steps depending on which stage of the review process you're at – not everyone will start from scratch
- A curriculum review is often a mammoth task – don't worry if you find it takes a long time to do some of the steps here
- Refer to our curriculum resource hub along the way for further support
We can't tell you what your curriculum should look like, because each school has its individual context. But, we can help you structure your review process and give you tools and questions you should ask yourself when planning your curriculum.
If you're confident that all staff know and agree on the points below, go straight to step 2. If not, read our article to help you
- 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 accessibility for pupils with SEND: checklist
- Curriculum audit: gender and LGBTQ+ inclusivity
- Curriculum maps: templates and examples
- Curriculum provision in PRUs and APs
- Developing spiritual, moral, social and cultural education
- English genres in the National Curriculum
- How to design a curriculum
- How to promote British values across your school
- Implementing a knowledge-rich curriculum
- PE teaching hours: guidance and examples
- 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
- Whole-school curriculum audit
- Withdrawing pupils from subjects
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