National curriculum in England: Primary Curriculum Handbook for Teachers (The national curriculum primary programmes of study and attainment targets for key stages 1 and 2).
This updated version includes also the Relationships and sex education (RSE) and Health Education.
Content:
1)
Key stages 1 and 2 with eleven original primary subjects
includes:
Contextual information about both the overall school curriculum and the statutory national curriculum, including the statutory basis of the latter;
Aims for the statutory national curriculum;
Statements on inclusion, and on the development of pupils' competence in numeracy and mathematics, language and literacy across the school curriculum;
Programmes of study for key stages 1 and 2 for all the national curriculum subjects that are taught at these key stages.
2)
Relationships and sex education (RSE) and health education:
contains information on what schools should do and sets out the legal duties with which schools must comply when teaching Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education.
aimed at:
governing bodies of maintained-schools, including schools with a sixth-form, and non-maintained special schools;
Trustees or directors of academies and free school;
Proprietors of independent schools, including academies and free schools;
Management committees of pupil referral units (PRUs);
Teachers, other school staff and school nurses;
Headteachers, principals and senior leadership teams;
Diocese and other faith representatives;
For reference for relevant local authority staff.
