Schemes of learning aren't curriculum
The difference matters more in the age of generated worksheets.
A scheme of learning is a plan for coverage: these topics, in this order, over these weeks. Curriculum is the harder thing underneath — the decisions about what a concept means, how it connects to the last one, and which representation makes it land. You can have a tidy scheme and no curriculum at all.
This was always true, but generated worksheets make it urgent. It has never been easier to produce a hundred technically-correct questions on a topic. It has never been more tempting to mistake that volume for a curriculum. Quantity of practice is not coherence of understanding.
The work that doesn’t generate itself is the sequencing and the modelling — the reasons one idea comes before another, and the structures that make abstract maths visible. That’s where a maths specialist still earns their keep, and where the good content quietly separates from the plausible.
Let's turn the argument into the honest next step.