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The Review will seek to refresh the curriculum to ensure it is cutting edge, fit for purpose and meeting the needs of children and young people to support their future life and work. The Review will ensure that the curriculum appropriately balances ambition, excellence, relevance, flexibility and inclusivity for all our children and young people, and it will ensure meaningful, rigorous and high-value pathways for all at 16-19. The Review will contribute to the Government’s missions to break down the barriers to opportunity for every child and young person, at every stage, as well as to the Government’s mission on growth. The Review will develop a cutting-edge curriculum, equipping children and young people with the essential knowledge and skills which will enable them to adapt and thrive in the world and workplace of the future. The Review will build on the hard work of teachers and staff across the system who have brought their subjects alive with knowledge-rich syllabuses, to deliver a curriculum which is rich and broad, inclusive, and innovative. In seeking to achieve these aims, the Review Group will work in line with the Working Principles.  \nThe Review will build on the Government’s commitment to high standards in the curriculum in England, whilst ensuring greater attention to breadth and flexibility and that no child or young person is left behind. The Review will ensure that the assessment system captures children and young people’s knowledge and abilities and consider the overall volume of assessment. The Review will also ensure that the curriculum and assessment system are aligned and operate together in a coherent manner.  \nThe Review will seek to address the key problems and hard barriers to achievement in the curriculum and assessment system from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 5. The Review will work backwards through young people's educational journey, commencing with detailed consideration of the ceilings to achievement currently built into Key Stages 4 and 5, and then working backwards through the earlier Key Stages to ensure that learning is effectively sequenced and that barriers to achievement are also removed in Key Stages 3, 2 and 1.  \nSpecifically, the Review will seek to deliver:  \n• An excellent foundation in core subjects of reading, writing and maths.  \n• A broader curriculum, so that children and young people do not miss out on subjects such as music, art, sport and drama, as well as vocational subjects.  \n• A curriculum that ensures children and young people leave compulsory education ready for life and ready for work, building the knowledge, skills and attributes young people need to thrive. 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