The National Curriculum for England provides the statutory framework for subjects, content, and attainment targets for primary and secondary schools. It aims to
England, United Kingdom
The National Curriculum for England provides the statutory framework for subjects, content, and attainment targets for primary and secondary schools. It aims to ensure a broad and balanced education, focusing on core knowledge and essential skills across four Key Stages.
The National Curriculum for England provides the statutory framework for subjects, content, and attainment targets for primary and secondary schools. It aims to ensure a broad and balanced education, focusing on core knowledge and essential skills across four Key Stages.
Year Adopted: 2014
Key Stage 1 (Years 1-2), Key Stage 2 (Years 3-6), Key Stage 3 (Years 7-9), Key Stage 4 (Years 10-11)
Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words.
Key skills: segmenting, blending, GPC recognitionCompose a sentence orally before writing it.
Key skills: oral rehearsal, sequencing, narrative structureProvide reasoned justifications for their views about books.
Key skills: inference, critical analysis, evidence-based reasoningUse the range of punctuation taught at Key Stage 2 correctly, including colons and semi-colons to mark boundaries.
Key skills: advanced punctuation, sentence cohesion, grammatical precisionRecognise the place value of each digit in a two-digit number (tens, ones).
Key skills: partitioning, number comparison, estimationIdentify and describe the properties of 2-D shapes, including the number of sides and line symmetry in a vertical line.
Key skills: shape identification, symmetry analysis, geometric vocabularyDivide numbers up to 4 digits by a two-digit whole number using the formal written method of long division.
Key skills: long division, interpreting remainders, calculation accuracyExpress missing number problems algebraically.
Key skills: formula usage, linear sequences, solving equationsAsking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different ways.
Key skills: observation, questioning, data recordingIdentify and name a variety of everyday materials, including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock.
Key skills: classification, property testing, material identificationCells as the fundamental unit of living organisms, including the functions of the cell wall, cell membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus, vacuole, mitochondria and chloroplasts.
Key skills: microscopy, structural analysis, biological systemsCalculation of fuel uses and costs in the domestic context, compared with energy transfers in other systems.
Key skills: energy conservation, mathematical modeling, resource analysisChanges within living memory. Where appropriate, these should be used to reveal aspects of change in national life.
Key skills: continuity and change, oral history, chronological sequencingThe Roman Empire and its impact on Britain.
Key skills: historical enquiry, analyzing influence, source evaluationThe achievements of the earliest civilizations—an overview of where and when the first civilizations appeared and a depth study of one (e.g., Ancient Egypt).
Key skills: comparative history, cultural analysis, archaeological evidenceThe National Curriculum is mandatory for all local-authority-maintained schools in England. Academies and free schools are not required to follow it but must offer a 'broad and balanced' curriculum that includes English, Maths, and Science. Teachers use 'Programmes of Study' to plan lessons and 'Attainment Targets' to measure student progress at the end of each Key Stage.
Statutory assessments include: the Reception Baseline Assessment (EYFS), Phonics Screening Check (Year 1), Multiplication Tables Check (Year 4), and National Curriculum Tests (SATs) in English and Maths at the end of Key Stage 2 (Year 6). Key Stage 4 culminates in General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) examinations.
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