Statutory guidance

National curriculum in England: framework for key stages 1 to 4

皇冠体育app full national curriculum framework for key stages 1 to 4, including programmes of study and attainment targets.

Applies to England

Documents

Details

This is the statutory national curriculum framework. It is issued by law; you must follow it unless there鈥檚 a good reason not to. 皇冠体育app framework includes the programmes of study for all subjects for key stages 1 to 4.

皇冠体育app national curriculum sets out the programmes of study and attainment targets for all subjects at all 4 key stages.

All local-authority-maintained schools in England must teach these programmes of study.

皇冠体育app majority of this national curriculum was introduced in September 2014, with English and maths coming into force for all year groups from September 2016.

皇冠体育app exception is the science curriculum which came into force for year 10 pupils in September 2016, and applies to year 11 pupils from September 2017.

Separate versions containing just the primary (key stages 1 to 2) and secondary (key stages 3 to 4) curriculums are also available.

皇冠体育app HTML version covers chapters 1 to 7 of the national curriculum framework document. 皇冠体育appse set out:

  • contextual information about the school curriculum and the statutory national curriculum
  • statements on inclusion and the development of pupils鈥� competence in numeracy and mathematics, language and literacy

Separate individual programmes of study are available for:

See the National Archives website for information about the pre-2014 and curriculums.

Updates to this page

Published 11 September 2013
Last updated 2 December 2014 show all updates
  1. Updated national curriculum framework with key stage 4 science programme of study.

  2. Added key stage 4 programmes of study for English and mathematics.

  3. First published.

Sign up for emails or print this page