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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 requirements: maintained secondary schools UpdatedIf 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Post-16 skills-based study programmes: examples See examples of post-16 programmes of study for pupils with special educational needs (SEN).
- Relationships and sex education (RSE): requirements (secondary) Understand your requirements to teach RSE and health education. Find out what you're expected to cover and details on 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.