Cornerstones International Curriculum
British Foundations. Global Excellence.
A world-class curriculum for every classroom
The Cornerstones Curriculum is trusted by more than 1,000 primary schools across the UK and around the world. Cornerstones International brings that same expert-designed, handcrafted curriculum to British international schools everywhere. Built on fifteen years of curriculum expertise, it gives schools everything they need to deliver a coherent, ambitious and genuinely teachable British primary education, from Nursery to Year 6, wherever they are.
We are not a platform that helps you organise resources. We are a curriculum designed by experts, knowledge-rich, and fully aligned with the English national curriculum, built on a world-class platform.
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Trusted by British international schools worldwide
A curriculum that fits your world
British international primary schools face challenges that no England-based curriculum is designed to solve: timetables compressed by Arabic, local subjects, and specialist provision. Staff arriving from every corner of the world with different training and assumptions. Families from diverse cultural backgrounds with high expectations often result in limited visibility of how learning builds year on year.
Cornerstones International was built for exactly this reality. Our curriculum is coherent from the first day of Nursery to the last day of Year 6. It is fully aligned to the English national curriculum and already built around the 2028 changes taking shape.
It is adaptable enough to reflect the community your school serves, is locally rooted, globally minded, and genuinely teachable within the timetable.
Everything lives on Maestro, our online curriculum platform. Lesson sequences, planning, resources, timetabling and assessment all sit together in one shared school environment. When staff change, the curriculum stays the same. When a new teacher joins, they step into clarity rather than chaos.
What school leaders say
Deputy Head of Primary Gems Founders Al MizharCornerstones has been beyond supportive to us in the initial stages of launch and thereafter, as well as helping teachers who may not be familiar with the English National Curriculum to effectively plan and deliver lessons that meet curriculum standards while also being culturally responsive.
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Year 2 Teacher Sherborne Qatar Prep SchoolThe theory of the project is fantastic. They link well with the National Curriculum, and children loved the project approach, along with a good motivator at the beginning of the unit. The knowledge organisers are also great.
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Sarah Davies, Head of the Junior Department Leicester High School for GirlsWe didn't have the learning journey mapped out. But now, we can clearly see the children who've been brought up with Cornerstones. They have buckets of knowledge; they know the kind of language. It's so embedded and loved by all.
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See how Cornerstones could work for your school
Whether you are building a curriculum from scratch, strengthening what you already have, or getting ahead of the 2028 changes, a curriculum conversation is the best place to start. No agenda. Just a genuinely useful discussion about what your school needs.
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