Areas of Learning and Experience

The Curriculum for Wales has six Areas of Learning and Experience: Expressive Arts; Health and Well-being; Humanities; Languages, Literacy and Communication; Mathematics and Numeracy; and Science and Technology. Each Area has its own statements of what matters, 27 in all. Under the statements of what matters Code, made under the Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021, your curriculum must incorporate every one of them. Your school decides how to organise the teaching within each Area. Learning moves through five progression steps. Hwb (the Welsh Government's digital learning platform, where the curriculum guidance lives) says these steps "can only broadly correspond to expectations at ages 5, 8, 11, 14 and 16". Each guide below sets out what the Area covers, its statements of what matters in Hwb's wording, what progression looks like, and classroom examples you can adapt.