 Primary Curriculum
Important information on the primary curriculum and Key Stage 3 level descriptions
The previous Government accepted recommendations put forward by Sir Jim Rose to implement a new primary curriculum from September 2011. Ministers announced on 7th June 2010 that the Government does not intend to proceed with the new primary curriculum.
Ministers are committed to giving schools more freedom from unnecessary prescription and bureaucracy. They have always made clear their intentions to make changes to the National Curriculum that will ensure a relentless focus on the basics and give teachers more flexibility than the proposed new primary curriculum offered.
The Government intends to return the National Curriculum to its intended purpose – a minimum national entitlement organised around subject disciplines – and will shortly announce its next steps.
In the meantime, the existing primary curriculum will continue to be in force in 2013/4 and schools should plan on that basis.
Information on this website will be updated as announcements are made and more detail is available.
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