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Teachers slam new draft curriculum

Otago Daily Times Online News·Monday, 4 May 2026·29 days ago
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By John Gerritsen of RNZ Teachers specialising in music, physical education, science, technology and history have slammed draft curriculums covering their subjects. Submissions provided to RNZ say the music curriculum was unteachable, science was over-crowded and in some cases even silly, while PE needed a total rewrite. They say combining dance and drama in the arts curriculum was problematic, and technology was confusing and unusable. Consultation on the six drafts for years 0-10 closed at the end of last week. The drafts would replace a curriculum many said was too vague with documents that set out more clearly what teachers must teach at each year level, from the start of primary school through to the first two years of secondary school. The government wants to finalise the curriculums later this year, with schools using the new science, social sciences, and health and physical education curriculums next year, and the arts, technology and learning languages from the start of 2028.…

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