Primary And Secondary Education And The National Curriculum

Primary education - 5-11, covering KS1(5-7) and KS2 (7-11)

Secondary education - 11-16, covering KS3 (11-14) and KS4 (14-16)

core subjects-

English - words containing each of the phonemes, common word exemptions and days of the work, handwriting, vocab, grammar, and maths

Maths - number and place value, addition, and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions, position and direction, statistics, and geometry.

Science - animals and humans, habitats, plants,

foundation subjects

art & design - using a range of materials, drawing and paintings, colour, pattern and texture, lines, shapes, form, space

computing - understand algorithms, debug simple programs, logical reasoning

design & technology- design appealing products, generate, develop, and communicate ideas and use basic principles of a healthy varied diet, prepare, and cook using a range of cooking techniques, understand seasonality

geography - name and locate the 7 continents, identify characteristics of 4 counties, know the capitals of the UK

history - changes within living memory, events beyond living memory

music - use voices expressively and creatively by singing songs, speaking chants, play tuned and untuned instruments, listen with concentration and understand high quality live and recorded music, experiment with, create and combine sounds

PE - master basic movements, running, jumping, throwing, catching, balance, agility, co-ordination, and apply these in a range of activities, participate in team games, develop simple tactics, dances with simple movement

KS4 - citizenship, computing and physical education remain compulsory. Other foundation subjects become optional but may be studied at GCSE’s

At the end of the KS4 - young people may to take level 2 qualifications (GCSE’s and technical qualifications)

other requirements - state schools have to hold collective worship, which usually takes place as part of an assembly, relationship and health education is required in all key stages, sec education is required in KS3 and KS4.