How to review your curriculum

Review your curriculum with our step-by-step guide, including how to audit both your curriculum design and delivery.

Last reviewed on 6 November 2025See updates
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Contents
  1. Curriculum reviews are a significant undertaking
  2. Your school’s vision should inform your curriculum design
  3. Refresh yourself on curriculum design and delivery principles
  4. 1. Start with a high-level view of your curriculum
  5. 2. Dig into specific subjects or year groups
  6. 3. Plan your changes
  7. Next steps: implementing and monitoring changes 

Curriculum reviews are a significant undertaking

Don’t be alarmed if it takes a long time to complete some of the steps laid out below – they involve you looking at your curriculum from a wide lens, and then digging into specific areas.

This article will take you through the process of reviewing your curriculum, so you can design one that suits your school’s context. We’ll go into greater detail in other articles, which we’ll link to where appropriate in this guide. You can find everything you need in our curriculum resource hub.

Your school’s vision should inform your curriculum design

Your school's vision and your high-level goals for pupils What you want pupils to have achieved and experienced by the time they leave your school (this should be brief, you can save the detail for