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Curriculum and qualifications: detailed information

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Curriculum

  • National curriculum
  • Sex and relationship education
  • Personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education
  • Religious education in local-authority-maintained schools
  • Disapplying aspects of the national curriculum

Qualifications

  • GCSE subject content
  • English Baccalaureate (EBacc)
  • GCE AS and A level subject content
  • New AS and A levels: requirements and guidance
  • Introduction of T Levels
  • Performance tables: technical and vocational qualifications

Functional skills

  • Functional skills subject content: English
  • Functional skills subject content: mathematics

National curriculum assessments

  • National curriculum assessments: guidance for local authorities
  • National curriculum assessments: early years foundation stage
  • 2019 early years foundation stage: assessment and reporting arrangements (ARA)
  • Phonics screening check: administration
  • National curriculum assessments: key stage 1 tests
  • 2019 key stage 1: assessment and reporting arrangements (ARA)
  • National curriculum assessments: key stage 2 tests
  • 2019 key stage 2: assessment and reporting arrangements (ARA)
  • National curriculum assessments: practice materials

Information for parents and carers

  • The national curriculum
  • GCSE new grading scale: factsheets
  • Changes to assessments in primary schools
  • Courses and qualifications for 14 to 19 year olds
  • Relationships education, relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education: FAQs

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