The KS3 curriculum map
700 KS3 topics across seven subjects, with the links that say which one has to come first — free, no account needed.
The KS3 Map is the curriculum your child's tutors teach against, published in full. It is free and needs no account — you can read all of it before you decide anything.
What is in it
| 700 topics | every named KS3 concept, tagged to Year 7, 8 or 9 |
| 1,147 links | "this has to come before that" — the order the subject actually requires |
| 7 subjects | Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English, History, Geography |
The links are the part worth your attention. A list of topics tells you what is on the curriculum; the links tell you why a gap hurts later. If your child is stuck on simultaneous equations, the map shows the four things underneath it — and it is usually one of those, not the topic they are stuck on, that needs the work.
Why it is public
Two reasons, and the second is the honest one.
- A parent should be able to see what a tutor will teach before paying for it.
- It is checkable. If we have the order wrong somewhere, we would rather you could see it and tell us.
How the tutors use it
The same map drives the parts of the product you pay for:
- Learning plans pick a term's direction from it, so a goal is a real curriculum position rather than a wish.
- The 3-year map shows where your child is across all three KS3 years.
- Flashcards are tagged to it, so a card knows which topic it belongs to and which topics it depends on.
- A tutor consults it when deciding whether your child is ready for something, or needs a prerequisite first.
You do not have to use the map to use the tutors. It runs underneath either way — this page just says what it is, in case you would like to look.
Reading it
Each dot is a topic. Colour is the subject; position groups a subject's topics together. Tap or click any dot to see what it is, which year it sits in, and what it depends on. There is a Chinese edition at /zh/ks3 — the page chrome is translated, while the topic names stay in English because they are the real UK curriculum terms your child meets at school.
What it is not
It is not a syllabus from an exam board, and it is not a national standard. It is our reading of KS3 across seven subjects, assembled so tutors can reason about order. Schools sequence things differently and that is fine — the map is about what depends on what, not about which week anything is taught.