The Institute of Physics curriculum committee has been looking at ways of framing schoollevel physics so that it gives students a rewarding and productive experience of physics and leaves them with positive views of the discipline and its cultural contribution, as well as lasting and detailed skills, knowledge and understanding. The result is some guidelines that make explicit the practices and applications of physics and express the destinations and structure of the discipline as a set of big ideas collected into three dimensions. It is our intention to work with stakeholders -- especially teachers -- to develop some school-level frameworks based on these guidelines.