As primary teachers are feeling the effects of a long year, facing sports’days, parents’evening, report writing and beginning to think about the coming holidays, so the new curriculum is published in more or less its final form. There have been some fundamental changes especially to the history which now stops for primary children at 1066, instead of the Restoration.
The new curriculum makes great play about the fact that there is a school curriculum of which the national curriculum is only a part. It seems to suggest that once the knowledge based national curriculum is done,then schools can concentrate on the kind of learning they want for their children. There seems to be no time constraints in the minds of the national curriculum developers.
Many primary schools have spent large parts of their income on resources which they now feel can not be used. What will happen about Chembakoli or the World War 2 resources both topics having been postponed to the secondary school?