It was on 20 January 2011 that the UK government’s review of England’s national curriculum was announced. On 11 September 2013 the final version was published. Meanwhile, the Expert Panel rose and fell, drafts were published, petitions were submitted, petitioners were abused and it was altogether a rather noisy affair. CPR/CPRT submitted evidence in several instalments and we had numerous meetings with DfE officials and a few with ministers. It is clear that our views have been heeded on curriculum breadth and spoken language, though we would have liked DfE to go much further on both of these vital matters, but elsewhere we made less progress than we would have liked and overall the new framework retains most of the features of its earlier drafts.
One of the first fruits of CPRT’s collaboration with Pearson will be Primary Curriculum 2014, a series of 18 regional conferences designed to help teachers implement the new national curriculum in a way that also does justice to the CPR/CPRT imperatives of breadth and richness, both within subjects and across the curriculum as a whole.
Download the new national curriculum
www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/series/national-curriculum
Find out more about the CPRT/Pearson primary curriculum conferences
www.pearsonschools.co.uk/pearsonandcprt