Curriculum and assessment

Guidance and services

• Curriculum for Wales
  This is your chance to get to know the new curriculum and make your contribution.
• The new curriculum: poster
  Poster outlining the 4 purposes of education for children and young people.
  
• Education is changing website
  If you are a parent or carer, a learner, an employer or someone with a general interest in the curriculum, or a particular part of it, you can find out how education is changing.
• Preparing for the new curriculum
  Presentations and videos about the Curriculum and Areas of Learning and Experience.
• The national approach to professional learning (NAPL)
  A summary of how professional learning is changing to meet the needs of the new curriculum.
• Teaching about the multiethnic nature of Wales: teachers prompt sheet
  A prompt sheet developed by the group to support teachers to think about how their teaching reflects the multiethnic nature of Wales.
• Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act
  How and why we are changing the curriculum.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Successful futures: report on responses to the great debate
  Report
  A summary of the public's response to recommendations on a new approach to curriculum and assessment.
• Curriculum for Wales: overview
  Policy and strategy
  The Curriculum for Wales Framework was published in January 2020 for schools and settings in Wales to use.
• Cwricwlwm Cymreig review group: final report
  Report
  A review and recommendations on including Welsh history and perspective in school education.
• Curriculum for Wales: Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) Code
  Legislation
  Sets out the mandatory learning in RSE.
• Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities, Contributions and Cynefin in the New Curriculum Working Group: interim report
  Report
  Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities, Contributions and Cynefin in the New Curriculum Working Group
  Recommendations on the teaching of themes related to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities and experiences within the curriculum. The interim report focuses on learning resources.
• Audit Wales report on the new Curriculum for Wales: government response
  Report
  Audit Wales
  Welsh Government’s response to Audit Wales report on the Curriculum for Wales.
• The Curriculum Requirements (Amendment of paragraph 7(5) of Schedule 17 to the Coronavirus Act 2020) (Wales) Regulations 2020
  Legislation
  These Regulations amend Schedule 17 to the Coronavirus Act 2020 to enable the Welsh Ministers to make a notice to temporarily dis-apply certain curriculum requirements and their associated assessment arrangements.
• Ethnic diversity in schools
  Policy and strategy
  Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities, Contributions and Cynefin in the New Curriculum Working Group
  Key facts showing the percentage of learners and staff from BAME backgrounds.
• Annual report on implementation of the recommendations from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities, Contributions and Cynefin in the New Curriculum Working Group report
  Report
  Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities, Contributions and Cynefin in the New Curriculum Working Group
  This annual report sets out the progress made to date in implementing these recommendations to reinforce the importance of teaching past and present experiences and contributions of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities as part of the story of Wales across the curriculum.
• Schools as learning organisations (SLO)
  Policy and strategy
  How we are progressing towards all schools becoming learning organisations.
• Notice to disapply curriculum requirements
  Legislation
  Temporarily removes the requirement for schools and funded nurseries to provide the basic curriculum and associated assessment arrangements.
• Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities, Contributions and Cynefin in the New Curriculum Working Group: final report
  Report
  Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities, Contributions and Cynefin in the New Curriculum Working Group
  Final recommendations on the teaching of themes related to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities and experiences within the curriculum.
• Direction relating to developing and maintaining a shared understanding of progression
  Legislation
  A Ministerial Direction pursuant to section 57 of the Curriculum and Assessment Act 2021, for the purpose of enabling practitioners to participate in professional dialogue within their school or setting and with practitioners from other schools and settings to develop and maintain a shared understanding of learner progression.
• Diversity in the curriculum: timeline
  Policy and strategy
  Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities, Contributions and Cynefin in the New Curriculum Working Group
  Timeline of events for the work carried out between June 2020 and March 2021 on diversity in the curriculum.
• Relationships and sexuality education (RSE) pilot in schools: final report
  Report
  RSE pilot final report containing learning, reflections and suggestions for schools and settings.
• Modification of Curriculum Requirements in Wales Notice 2021
  Legislation
  Temporarily modifies the requirement for schools and funded non-maintained nurseries to provide the basic curriculum and associated assessment arrangements.
• Mandatory status of English in the Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Bill: summary of responses
  Report
  Results of online survey and stakeholder sessions into the mandatory status of English in the Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Bill.
• Scoping study for the evaluation of the curriculum and assessment reforms in Wales: government response
  Report
  Our response to the scoping study for the evaluation of the curriculum and assessment reforms in Wales.
• Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities (BAME), Contributions and Cynefin in the New Curriculum Working Group
  Policy and strategy
  The group will review learning resources and professional training in relation to the teaching of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) history, Welsh history and cynefin.
• Curriculum for Wales: Progression Code
  Legislation
  The Code sets out the ways in which a curriculum must make provision for all learners.
• Teaching about the multiethnic nature of Wales: vision statement
  Policy and strategy
  Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities, Contributions and Cynefin in the New Curriculum Working Group
  A vision statement developed by the group.
• Curriculum for Wales: statements of what matters code
  Legislation
  Sets out the 27 statements of what matters across the 6 areas of learning and experience.