the three foundation subjects (English, mathematics, and science) that are compulsory throughout each key stage in the National Curriculum
The core subjects are English, mathematics and science.
Examples of 'core subject' in a sentence
core subject
What constitutes a 'core subject' has also been a matter for debate.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Yet here it constitutes another core subject.
The Times Literary Supplement (2014)
And if music was reclassified as a core subject, teacher-training institutions would have to revise their (on the whole) lamentably sketchy approach to the subject.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Does the school not have a duty to deliver what we would consider to be such a core subject?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
It wants an incoming administration to make digital literacy a core subject in schools and to put a 'digital agenda' at the heart of government.