The national curriculum, structured for planning
We took the statutory framework for England and turned it into something you can plan from.
to Year 6
The curriculum picker
Topics you can actually plan from
The framework document tells you what must be taught. It does not tell you what a lesson looks like. So every statement is grouped into a teachable topic with a plain-English summary, and every topic links back to the statements it covers.
Pick one and the objective and crucial knowledge arrive already filled in, with the curriculum reference attached.
Reviewed by teachers
The statutory wording is exact. The layer on top, the groupings, the summaries and the suggested wording, was written by us and reviewed by practising primary teachers, because a topic list that does not match how schools actually plan is no use to anyone.
Your school's curriculum
Most schools plan from their own overview, scheme of work or knowledge organiser. Upload yours and we extract your topics and your crucial knowledge, and they appear in the picker alongside the national curriculum.
Your school does its own thing for RE, or follows a published scheme for maths? That works too.
What we do not do
We do not tell you what to teach. Your school decides that, and your curriculum lead has usually spent a long time on it. We help you build the lesson once you know.
Kept current
The curriculum is data, not code. England's revised curriculum has been published for first teaching in September 2028, and it is machine readable for the first time. When it lands, Lessonsuite updates. You will not have to do anything.
Choose a topic and the planning starts already filled in.
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