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Revised National Curriculum 2000
Following a
period of consultation, the Secretary of State has announced revisions to the national
curriculum in England. The revised curriculum for key stages 1 and 2 including all
subjects will become statutory from August 2000.
"The main
aim of the review of the national curriculum was to ensure that any necessary changes
would promote stability in schools and enable them to focus on raising standards of pupil
attainment. Most of the changes are designed to make teaching requirements clearer and to
increase the flexibility available to schools to develop their curriculum in ways which
best meet the needs of their pupils and local community." (QCA)
A summary of the
main strands of Curriculum 2000 follows below.
No changes to:
 | the structure
of the key stages
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| standards
(only minor rewording of level descriptions)
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| statutory
assessment arrangements
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| the
requirement to provide religious education to all pupils except those withdrawn by parents
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requirements for primary schools to provide and keep up to date a written statement of
their policy on sex education
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Main changes:
| A more
explicit rationale for the school curriculum and the national curriculum including values,
aims and purposes
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| Four main
purposes of the national curriculum: to establish an entitlement, to establish standards,
to promote continuity and coherence, to promote public understanding
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| A sronger
emphasis on inclusion: providing effective learning opportunities for all pupils. Three
key principles: setting suitable learning challenges, responding to pupils' diverse
learning needs, overcoming potential barriers to learning and assessment for individuals
and groups of pupils
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| Clearer, more
flexible national curriculum subjects: programmes of study are less prescriptive in order
to provide greater curriculum flexibility for individual schools, requirements have been
reduced and brought together into a single set of teaching requirements, greater coherence
between subjects and with initiatives such as the national strategies for literacy and
numeracy, stronger emphasis on a rationale for each subject.
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| New statutory
statements on the use of language across the curriculum, ICT across the curriculum
and on Health and Safety
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| Information on
learning across the national curriculum. This includes how the national curriculum can
contribute to spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and the development of key
skills for sustainable development
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More specific
subject detail on National Curriculum 2000 can be found at:
National
Curriculum Website
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