This has been developed through the Education Achievement Zone (EAZ) and latterly the Excellence Cluster.  The principles behind the curriculum are as follows:

"The Gloucester City Curriculum is a carefully planned, thematic approach to teaching and learning, designed to stimulate creativity and to arouse children's natural curiosity.

By placing direct experience, using a range of resources, at the centre of the curriculum, teachers are able to draw out and develop children's powers of expression in a range of different media.  By during so, they provide the circumstances under which all children can achieve success.

Within the City Curriculum, schools and teachers work collaboratively, drawing on the resources of our local enviroment and wider city to create a coherent, challenging and exciting curriculum."