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Preparing the new primary curriculum – geography, history & languages

Languages and humanities
The new primary curriculum has been published and the process of implementation has begun. In the coming months, we will be examining different subjects and looking at how schools are preparing. Suzanne O’Connell begins with geography, history & languages

What should be included in a country’s national curriculum is a crucial discussion and one that has been going on in England since 1988 and the Education Reform Act. With its 10 documents, the first national curriculum needed a shelf to itself. The one currently displayed on the government’s official website is a pocket-sized version in comparison.

Although academy and free schools do not have to implement the new curriculum it is likely, for primary schools at least, that the majority will. 

Wroxham Primary School in Hertfordshire is an academy but they are preparing to teach the new curriculum: “We are keen to collaborate with and support our alliance schools,” headteacher Alison Peacock told Headteacher Update. 

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