Purpose of Curriculum

The purpose of the curriculum is to develop each student as a learner, person, community member, and contributor to society. The aim of the curriculum is to develop students as learners and as people, empowering them with the knowledge, understandings, capabilities, and values to participate as active members of their community and society.

The purpose of a curriculum is to set out an entitlement for all pupils to the knowledge and learning that our society determines is the most powerful and important for a well-rounded education. As we move to think about the curriculum at a school and classroom level, a curriculum provides coherence (how the content, assessment, pedagogy, and teaching materials align and reinforce each other). This is important because when the curriculum lacks coherence, it is both harder to teach and harder for children to locate and place their new knowledge. Only a well-designed curriculum enables successful learning.