The ‘basic’ school curriculum includes the National Curriculum as well as Religious Education and Relationships and Sex Education.

The national curriculum is a set of subjects and standards used by primary and secondary schools so children learn the same things. It covers what subjects are taught and the standards children should reach in each subject.

More information about the National Curriculum can be found by clicking on the National Curriculum image above.

Key Stage 1 and 2

Compulsory National Curriculum subjects at primary school are:

• English
• maths
• science
• design and technology
• history
• geography
• art and design
• music
• physical education (PE), including swimming
• computing
• ancient and modern foreign languages (at key stage 2)

Schools must provide Religious Education (RE) but parents can ask for their children to be taken out of the whole lesson or part of it.

Schools often also teach:

• personal, social and health education (PSHE)
• citizenship
• modern foreign languages (at key stage 1)