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Curriculum (secondary)
- Approaches to teaching core life skills (secondary) Build core life skills into your curriculum to help prepare your pupils for the next stage of their lives. Find out about different approaches to do this, and how you might measure the impact of teaching these skills.
- Curriculum models: progress 8 How can curriculum models reflect progress 8? In this article we look at how schools have adapted their curriculum offers in preparation for the progress 8 measure. We also relay advice on planning your curriculum in light of the secondary accountability reforms.
- Curriculum requirements: maintained secondary schools If you're reviewing or updating your curriculum, find out what you need to cover to stay compliant with requirements and meet DfE expectations.
- Curriculum requirements: secondary academies If you're reviewing or updating your curriculum, find out what you need to cover to stay compliant with requirements and meet DfE expectations.
- Department/subject leadership: checklist for the new academic year (secondary) Use our checklist of tasks to help get your department in line for the new academic year.
- Developing a post-16 skills-based study programme Are there any examples of post-16 programmes of study for pupils with SEN? We link to examples of skills-based curriculum programmes from special schools, specifically for post-16 students with special educational needs (SEN).
- English: how to audit and improve your curriculum design (secondary) Use our audit tool to diagnose and address weaknesses or gaps in your English curriculum. It includes discussion starters to help you assess your approach and suggests next steps based on your situation.
- Geography: how to audit and improve your curriculum design (secondary) Use our audit tool to diagnose and address weaknesses or gaps in your geography curriculum. It includes discussion starters to help you assess your approach and suggests next steps based on your situation.
- History: how to audit and improve your curriculum design (secondary) Use our audit tool to diagnose and address weaknesses or gaps in your history curriculum. It includes discussion starters to help you assess your approach and suggests next steps based on your situation.
- How to meet the statutory careers requirements (secondary) Find out how to meet your requirements for careers guidance, including how to achieve the Gatsby benchmarks in full.
- Managing a condensed KS3 and a three-year KS4: pros and cons Find out what you need to consider before condensing your KS3 or extending your KS4, including possible advantages and disadvantages. Read an example from a school that has managed this successfully.
- Maths: how to audit and improve your curriculum design (secondary) Use our audit tool to diagnose and address weaknesses or gaps in your maths curriculum. It includes discussion starters to help you assess your approach and suggests next steps based on your situation.
- Modern foreign languages (MFL): how to audit and improve your curriculum design (secondary) Use our audit tool to diagnose and address weaknesses or gaps in the curriculum for any language. It includes discussion starters to help you assess your approach and suggests next steps based on your situation.
- Providing an effective vocational education (secondary) Read advice from 3 of our experts on how you can provide a vocational education that meets the needs of your pupils at KS4 and is adapted to the context of your school.
- Relationships and sex education: new requirements from 2020 (secondary) You have to teach RSE and health education under new guidance. Find out what you're expected to cover, and the changes to parents' right to withdraw their children from sex education.
- Science: how to audit and improve your curriculum design (secondary) Use our audit tool to diagnose and address weaknesses or gaps in your science curriculum. It includes discussion starters to help you assess your approach and suggests next steps based on your situation.
- Timetabling: achieving value for money (secondary) How can we determine whether our timetable delivers value for money? This article relays advice from three of our associate education experts, who suggest ways to achieve cost-effective timetabling. It also points to guidance about timetable efficiencies in MATs and federations.
- Work experience: guidance Work experience isn’t statutory at Key Stage 4, but is expected at Key Stage 5. Familiarise yourself with guidance on work experience, including expectations during the coronavirus period and how to make it work for pupils with SEN, and take a look at what some schools do.