Changes to the national curriculumPractical guidance for curriculum change
Get clear subject insights, expert analysis and practical guidance to help you prepare for the refreshed national curriculum.
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Practical leadership guidance in our Curriculum Conversations roundtable with tips you can apply straight away.
Your guide to the proposed national curriculum changes, subject-by-subject, with a clear breakdown of what's changing and what's staying the same.
For now, keep using our free, subject expert-designed KS1-4 curriculum plans and resources, which already reflect many of the review’s recommendations.
Once the refreshed national curriculum is confirmed, you'll get:
- Updated curriculum sequences aligned with the refreshed national curriculum and GCSE specifications.
- Carefully sequenced, adaptable teaching resources including slides, worksheets, quizzes and key vocabulary.
- A fully digital and easily navigable example model of the DfE’s refreshed national curriculum.
- AI tools you can trust that make it quick and easy to adapt your curriculum and lessons to your context.
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Curriculum Conversations: practical guidance for curriculum change
Education experts and school leaders share how they’re approaching the changes, with practical tips you can apply straight away. Watch the latest episode, and share your questions for future episodes.
“Now that our National Curriculum review is complete, I’m excited to see how we can build on schools’ strong foundations and bring newly refreshed curricula to life in classrooms. Teachers must be supported to adopt our recommendations, so that they’re empowered to embrace them. I’m delighted that Oak will be championing this crucial work.”
Professor Becky Francis CBE
Chair of the Curriculum and Assessment Review
Frequently asked questions
The Department for Education commissioned the independent Curriculum and Assessment Review to maintain high expectations and strong subject knowledge, and to enable every pupil to achieve and thrive. It aims to ensure pupils gain the essential knowledge and skills for success in today’s world, with a focus on strengthening core subjects, broadening learning, and improving preparation for life and work.
The revised curriculum across key stages 1 to 4 will update subject content, strengthen progression, and make expectations clearer for teachers. In some subjects, you’ll see small refinements or clarified expectations. In others, there will be new content. The full details of what will change in each subject will not be known until the revised programmes of study are published. These will set out the statutory subject content that schools will be expected to teach.
There will be a transition period before schools are expected to teach the refreshed curriculum in full. New programmes of study will be available in 2027, with the revised national curriculum being taught from September 2028 and updated GCSEs for first teaching from September 2029 onwards.
You don’t need to make any immediate changes. This stage is about getting familiar with what’s ahead and starting to think about what it might mean for your pupils and your school. Knowing what’s coming means you can plan ahead rather than react under pressure later.
The challenge most teachers face during curriculum change isn’t interpreting the updates — it’s finding the time to adapt resources and lesson plans.
We’re here to support you. We’ll work with our expert school and education partners to update our curriculum plans and teaching resources in line with the revised curriculum and updated GCSEs. We’ll also share expert guidance to help you navigate the changes as they’re announced. Sign up to make sure you receive our updates and guidance.
For now, you can continue to have confidence in our existing curriculum plans and resources. They already have a strong focus on lots of the areas the review is recommending. For example, we’ve embedded oracy into our English curriculum, created financial education resources for both citizenship and maths, we cover media literacy in RSHE, and have a strong focus on climate and sustainability across geography and science.