British children will no longer have to study the Victorians or the second world war under proposals to overhaul the primary school curriculum, the Guardian reported on Wednesday.
However, the draft plans will require children to master Twitter and Wikipedia and give teachers far more freedom to decide what youngsters should be concentrating on in classes.
The proposed curriculum, which would mark the biggest change to primary schooling in a decade, strips away hundreds of specifications about the scientific, geographical and historical knowledge pupils must accumulate before they are 11 to allow schools greater flexibility in what they teach.
The plans have been drawn up by Sir Jim Rose, the former Ofsted chief who was appointed by ministers to overhaul the primary school curriculum, and are due to be published next month.
The papers seen by the Guardian are draft plans for the detailed content of each of six core “learning areas” that Rose is proposing should replace the current 13 standalone subject areas.
The proposals require:
Kids to leave primary school familiar with blogging, podcasts, Wikipedia as sources of information and forms of communication. They must gain “fluency” in handwriting and keyboard skills, and learn how to use a spellchecker besides how to spell.
Children to be able to place historical events within a chronology.
Less emphasis on the use of calculators than in the current curriculum.
An understanding of physical development, health and wellbeing, which would address what Rose calls “deep societal concerns” about children’s health, diet and physical activity, as well as their relationships with family. They will be taught about peer pressure, how to deal with bullying and how to negotiate in relationships. AGENCIES
UK mulls tracking networking sites
London: The government was accused of excessive snooping on Wednesday over proposals to monitor social networking sites as part of an anti-terror strategy.
Networking sites, which are thought to have millions of British members, could be forced to log data on everyone their users make contact with on their sites, according to a report on the government proposals in the Independent.
The moves follow controversial proposals, under EU directives, to store information on phone calls made, emails sent and websites visited in Britain. The information could be added to a planned database to track terror plots.
Home Office minister Vernon Coaker said the directives did not include the social networking sites, and the government was looking at closing the loophole.
Coaker made the comments earlier this month at a little noticed Commons committee to examine the EU directives which date back to the 2005 London bombings. AFP
However, the draft plans will require children to master Twitter and Wikipedia and give teachers far more freedom to decide what youngsters should be concentrating on in classes.
The proposed curriculum, which would mark the biggest change to primary schooling in a decade, strips away hundreds of specifications about the scientific, geographical and historical knowledge pupils must accumulate before they are 11 to allow schools greater flexibility in what they teach.
The plans have been drawn up by Sir Jim Rose, the former Ofsted chief who was appointed by ministers to overhaul the primary school curriculum, and are due to be published next month.
The papers seen by the Guardian are draft plans for the detailed content of each of six core “learning areas” that Rose is proposing should replace the current 13 standalone subject areas.
The proposals require:
Kids to leave primary school familiar with blogging, podcasts, Wikipedia as sources of information and forms of communication. They must gain “fluency” in handwriting and keyboard skills, and learn how to use a spellchecker besides how to spell.
Children to be able to place historical events within a chronology.
Less emphasis on the use of calculators than in the current curriculum.
An understanding of physical development, health and wellbeing, which would address what Rose calls “deep societal concerns” about children’s health, diet and physical activity, as well as their relationships with family. They will be taught about peer pressure, how to deal with bullying and how to negotiate in relationships. AGENCIES
UK mulls tracking networking sites
London: The government was accused of excessive snooping on Wednesday over proposals to monitor social networking sites as part of an anti-terror strategy.
Networking sites, which are thought to have millions of British members, could be forced to log data on everyone their users make contact with on their sites, according to a report on the government proposals in the Independent.
The moves follow controversial proposals, under EU directives, to store information on phone calls made, emails sent and websites visited in Britain. The information could be added to a planned database to track terror plots.
Home Office minister Vernon Coaker said the directives did not include the social networking sites, and the government was looking at closing the loophole.
Coaker made the comments earlier this month at a little noticed Commons committee to examine the EU directives which date back to the 2005 London bombings. AFP
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