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• Classes > Class data F6 > More > Curriculum Plan 
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Classes > Class data F6 > More > Curriculum Plan 

This powerful screen visually shows timetable structures, providing an overall map of the school’s whole curriculum plan. Whereas the F6 class data screen shows link entries that join classes together, this screen shows them grouped together in various boxes - for each year. In one sense, it is a condensed summary of E10’s Year Structure screen… But it only shows one cell entry per class, not one per period.

 The other difference to the Year Structure screen is that linked groups are shown in isolation from each other, and not “arbitrarily joined” in a sample period arrangement. The Curriculum Plan screen displays the basic building blocks of the timetable, where in (this context) a building block comprises two or more linked classes. An example may be History and Geography paired together, or two language classes paired together to allow students choice of French or Japanese, when they would otherwise be in their letter/tutor groups. 

A common structure in the UK and other areas has year groups separated into half, with the upper band having linked classes for English, Maths and Science, and similar for the lower band. This allows streaming/setting of students based on their ability - at least within bands. The school may find it difficult to staff or room classes if the entire year group did Science together as a block line, so half blocks give more resource flexibility for minimal impact on student movement between classes of these subjects. 

An example below shows one of the basic timetable building blocks for a school’s year 11 Maths classes. They divide 10x Maths classes into two groups of five, an upper band and a lower band. The upper band is known within E10 in this case as 11Mat.A1+4. This syntax indicates that class code 11Mat.A1 is linked with ‘4’ other classes, and together they form an atomic group of five classes which must always be scheduled on together.

The example string 11Mat.A1+4 can be found in several places elsewhere within E10, such as when selecting classes from class list manager via the 'Structure' drop down on the toolbar. In this case, the user would select this string in order to set the class lists for these five Maths classes in isolation of any other class (which includes the five maths classes in the lower band). All students in the BAND must be in one of these linked Maths classes, or shown clearly as unassigned. The '(5)' entry signifies the number of periods.

The Curriculum Plan screen provides an excellent visual indication of the Mix Bands (Mix Groups). 

A heading of 11-ABCDE1234 indicates the upper band, comprising of groups 11A, 11B … 11E. Note that these letter groups manage the exact same students as the number groups 11-1, 11-2, … 11-4.

A school which has divided their year into three Mix Bands would perhaps see heading entries of:

11-AB123, 11-CD456 and 11-EF789 for example - each showing a box group of classes within the band. 

 This planning screen is useful to identify any incorrect link entries in Class data which may be causing classes to be forced on together in ways you did not want (A typo in the link entries).  

 Similarly, the link entries may be 'correct' but, as a result, these classes may be on together in ways that are very inflexible, and should come under notice for considering change.   The intention may be to have two separate bands for Yr10, but due to how the language classes are linked, both bands may be inadvertently linked together and not be able to move flexibly. These examples should become readily apparent within the Curriculum Plan screen. 

 Usage 

 Double click any class in this screen to navigate directly to its entry in the F6 Class Data screen.