Planning, teaching and assessing the curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties

This guidance supports the planning, development and implementation of the curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties.

 

It draws on effective practice across a range of schools and can be used in mainstream and special primary and secondary schools, specialised units and independent schools. It also provides support to the range of services that work with these schools.

The guidance can be used with the school’s own material, the national curriculum and the frameworks for teaching literacy and mathematics to:

• confirm the statutory entitlement to learning for all pupils and build on the principles of inclusion set out in the national curriculum
• help schools develop an inclusive curriculum by:
  • setting suitable learning challenges
  • responding to pupils’ diverse learning needs
  • including all learners by overcoming potential barriers to learning and assessment
• provide a stimulus to revisit and revise existing schemes of work or a basis to develop new ones.