Curriculum and exams: what schools must publish
What your website says about teaching and assessment, from the curriculum and RSE to careers and exams.
9 requirements
- Careers programme informationMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.If your school has pupils in years 7 to 13, this is a summary of your careers programme, with your careers leader's contact details and how pupils and parents can find out more.Every September
- Complaints procedureMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.Your complaints procedure explains how anyone, not just parents, can make a complaint and how you'll handle it.Keep it up to date
- Curriculum informationMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.What you teach in each subject and year group, including religious education, not just your general approach.Keep it up to date
- Exam information for candidatesMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.If your school runs public exams, your website needs information for candidates on access arrangements, appeals, re-checks and reviews of marking, including the JCQ documents.Keep it up to date
- Exam internal appeals procedureShould: Recommended in official guidance, such as the DfE's. Not a legal requirement in itself.If your school runs public exams, this is the internal appeals procedure for candidates who disagree with a decision about a re-check, review or appeal.Keep it up to date
- Music development plan summaryShould: Recommended in official guidance, such as the DfE's. Not a legal requirement in itself.A summary of your music development plan for each academic year, using the DfE template.Every September
- Provider access policy statementMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.If your school has pupils in years 8 to 13, your website needs a statement on how colleges, training providers and apprenticeship providers can come in to talk to them.Keep it up to date
- Relationships and sex education policyMust: Required by law, statutory guidance or the academy's funding agreement.Your website needs your relationships education, or relationships and sex education, policy, including how parents can withdraw their child from sex education.Keep it up to date
- Right to withdraw from REShould: Recommended in official guidance, such as the DfE's. Not a legal requirement in itself.Parents' right to withdraw their child from all or part of religious education and collective worship, and how to ask.Keep it up to date
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