The National Curriculum in England and Wales is divided into four Key Stages (KS), three core subjects (English, Mathematics and Science) and nine non-core foundation subjects. Every sch.has a band ,orchestra or choir.There are also sch.teams that play basketball or football against other sch. The Key Stages are age-related: KS 1 goes up to age seven, KS 2 from seven to eleven, KS 3 from eleven to fourteen (pre-GCSE) and KS 4 from fourteen to sixteen (preparation for GCSE and equivalent vocational qualifications) -
In Scotland there is no legally prescribed national curriculum but the Scottish Executive Education Department sets out guidelines for teachers. The curriculum in Northern Ireland is set by the Northern Ireland Council for Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment. ASSEMENT

For most of their scool carrer pupils in British schools are assesed internally in the sch. by theit teachers.Methods vary from the sch. to sch. ,from subject to subject and even from teacher to teacher.Pupil´s marks are more or less random (nepravidelny)mixture of the results from pieces of homework ,informal tests projects works or whatever else is appropriate to the subject.I nsome subjects there are no marks at all .AtChristmas and at the end of the summer term some schools send a report to parents .