Curriculum requirementsE+W
20The four purposesE+W
The curriculum must enable pupils, or children, to develop in the ways described in the four purposes.
Commencement Information
I1S. 20 in force at 1.9.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/652, art. 5(1)(2)(a), Sch.
I2S. 20 in force at 1.9.2023 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/652, art. 6(1)(2)(a)
21ProgressionE+W
The curriculum must provide for appropriate progression.
Commencement Information
I3S. 21 in force at 1.9.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/652, art. 5(1)(2)(a), Sch.
I4S. 21 in force at 1.9.2023 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/652, art. 6(1)(2)(a)
22SuitabilityE+W
The curriculum must be suitable for pupils, or children, of differing ages, abilities and aptitudes.
Commencement Information
I5S. 22 in force at 1.9.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/652, art. 5(1)(2)(a), Sch.
I6S. 22 in force at 1.9.2023 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/652, art. 6(1)(2)(a)
23Breadth and balanceE+W
The curriculum must be broad and balanced.
Commencement Information
I7S. 23 in force at 1.9.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/652, art. 5(1)(2)(a), Sch.
I8S. 23 in force at 1.9.2023 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/652, art. 6(1)(2)(a)
24Areas of learning and experience and cross-curricular skillsE+W
(1)The curriculum must make provision for teaching and learning that—
(a)encompasses each of the areas of learning and experience, including the mandatory elements within the areas of learning and experience, and
(b)develops the mandatory cross-curricular skills.
(2)The provision for teaching and learning encompassing the mandatory element of Relationships and Sexuality Education must be developmentally appropriate for pupils, or children.
(3)The provision for teaching and learning encompassing the mandatory element of Religion, Values and Ethics must accord with Part 1 of Schedule 1, except where subsection (4) applies.
(4)This subsection applies where the provision for teaching and learning is made—
(a)for pupils in a class in which the majority of the pupils are below compulsory school age at the beginning of the school year;
(b)for children for whom funded non-maintained nursery education is provided.
(5)If the curriculum applies to pupils who have completed the school year in which the majority of the pupils in their class attained the age of 14, it must offer those pupils a choice of teaching and learning within each area of learning and experience.
Commencement Information
25Power to impose further curriculum requirementsE+W
(1)Regulations may specify further requirements with which a curriculum for a maintained school must comply so far as it applies to pupils within subsection (2).
(2)The pupils are those who have completed the school year in which the majority of the pupils in their class attained the age of 14, but are still of compulsory school age.
(3)The regulations may, among other things, specify provision—
(a)that must be made in a curriculum;
(b)that must not be made in a curriculum.
(4)The regulations may make provision by reference to courses of study (for example, so as to require a curriculum to make provision for a minimum number of courses of study, or for courses of study specified in the regulations).
(5)In this section, “course of study” means a course of education or training that—
(a)leads to a form of qualification or set of forms of qualification approved under Part 4 of the Qualifications Wales Act 2015 (anaw 5) or designated under Part 5 of that Act, or
(b)is designated by the Welsh Ministers under section 34(8) of that Act.
Commencement Information
I11S. 25 in force at 1.9.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/652, art. 5(1)(2)(b), Sch.
I12S. 25 in force at 1.9.2023 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/652, art. 6(1)(2)(b)