Commentary on Sections Part 2 – Curriculum in Maintained Schools, Maintained Nursery Schools and Funded Non-Maintained Nursery Education Chapter 3 – Curriculum Implementation Section 26 – Introduction and interpretation
44.This section describes the contents of Chapter 3 and specifies that it applies to a curriculum for:
	pupils at a maintained school who are under compulsory school age;
	pupils at a maintained nursery school;
	children for whom FNNE is provided.
45.This means that Chapter 3 does not apply to a curriculum for EOTAS, including PRUS, or to a curriculum for pupils at a maintained school who are over compulsory school age.
46.In general terms, this Chapter sets out requirements that relate to the way in which an adopted curriculum is put into practice in a school or FNNE setting.