This is the original version (as it was originally enacted).
(1)The areas of learning and experience for a curriculum are—
Expressive Arts
Health and Well-being
Humanities
Languages, Literacy and Communication
Mathematics and Numeracy
Science and Technology.
(2)Within the areas of learning and experience, the following are mandatory elements—
English
Relationships and Sexuality Education
Religion, Values and Ethics
Welsh.
(3)But English is not to be treated as a mandatory element, for the purposes of this Act, for a curriculum within subsection (4).
(4)A curriculum is within this subsection if it is—
(a)a curriculum for registered pupils at a school who have not completed the school year in which the majority of the pupils in their class attain the age of 7;
(b)a curriculum for funded non-maintained nursery education;
(c)a curriculum for education provided under section 19A of the Education Act 1996 (c. 56) (exceptional provision of education at pupil referral units or elsewhere: Wales) for pupils or children who have not attained the age of 7.
(5)References in this Act to the areas of learning and experience are to the areas listed in subsection (1).
(6)References in this Act to the mandatory elements are to be interpreted in accordance with this section.
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