PART 1

BASIC CONCEPTS AND KEY DOCUMENTS

The What Matters Code
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1
The Welsh Ministers must issue a code (the “What Matters Code”) that sets out key concepts for each area of learning and experience.
2
A curriculum does not encompass an area of learning and experience unless it encompasses those concepts as set out in the What Matters Code.
3
Teaching and learning does not encompass an area of learning and experience unless it encompasses those concepts as set out in the What Matters Code.
4
The Welsh Ministers—
a
must keep the What Matters Code under review, and
b
may revise it.
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For further provision about the What Matters Code, see section 76.