The Curriculum main form is where the curriculum you import or enter is displayed.  If this is being entered manually into SchoolBase, this will be done via the Curriculum Builder in the Build & Maintain menu.  The Curriculum main form is for displaying the curriculum, and carrying out stratghtforward minor alterations to groups and staffing.

Year group – the year the pupils belong to

Curriculum Block – This may be a Subject or a Block of Subjects.   So if all pupils do English, that would be a Curriculum Block.  But if they have a choice, as in an option block, the curriculum Block is ‘Option 1’ or ‘Block A’ or whatever.  The subjects within that are defined at the Group level (see ‘Creating Groups’ below).

Option group - 0 indicates that this is a compulsory subject – any other number indicates a choice between several subjects.

Carousel - 0 indicates that this is not a carousel – any other number indicates that classes change subject at least once during the year.

Sets - The number of sets or groups within the curriculum subject.  Where pupils are taught in forms, leave this as zero.

Period - Denotes the number of periods that are taught in one timetable cycle. 

Report - Indicates whether this curriculum item is to be reported on.  PLEASE NOTE that the ‘Curriculum Block’ level overrides the ‘Group’ level below.  So if you have Report set to off here, all groups within that Curriculum Block will be off.  However if this is set to on, it is possible to set individual groups off whilst the default remains as on.

Number - The system holds a number behind the scenes for each Curriculum Block which is not normally displayed (the primary key).  However some timetablers have found this a useful number when sorting out anomalies.

Name - The system never uses this field and it can be left blank.  There are occasions when it may prove useful in the import/export process.

Groups – Clicking this button takes you to a list of the teaching groups which were created for the particular curriculum item.