Kyle Brewerton: The Immediate Past President of the Auckland Primary Principals Association comments on content change to school curriculum

It's early days for new curriculum changes, as not all subject documents have been uploaded.

The Education Minister has unveiled proposed changes to content for Years 1-10,  on top of the English and Maths refresh announced earlier -  changing subjects like health and history. 

The Immediate Past President of the Auckland Primary Principals Association Kyle Brewerton told Ryan Bridge that only some documents are fully visible at the moment. 

He says his immediate reaction is there's a lot of content change and it's now the schools responsibility to feedback.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So the government's unveiled its new school curriculum. This is
years one to ten, so your primary big changes more
focused on New Zealand history, civics, financial education. From year
three consent education becomes compulsory. Carl Briton is the immediate
past president of the Auckland Primary Principles Association with me
this morning, Carl, Good morning, Good morning Ryan. What do
you reckon?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Wells, very early days, we can only actually see other
than the English and maths. We can only actually see
the science and the physical health and educations full documents
at the moment. The rest of it hasn't quite been
uploaded yet.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
So there's still a bit of a technical delay there.
You haven't seen the social sciences yet because that'll be
one of the more contentious ones, right, Okay.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
I imagine, so you imagine. Sorry, but no we can't
see the full document yet.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Okay, So when are you going to see the full document?

Speaker 2 (00:47):
I imagine it'll be today. It was all uploaded yesterday
and it's just the case of the system. It's half
updating and ironically last week it updated early.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
So from what you from what you have seen, Kyle,
what do you think.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
It looks like, there's a lot. I think that's the
immediate reaction. There's an awful particularly the science has got
quite a significant increase in the actual content. So the
onus is going to be on schools and school leaders
to take a real deep dive into that end to
make sure that we do feedback. We've got a six
month window to give feedback to the ministry around what

(01:23):
our impressions are and what we think is doable and
what's achievable and what's relevant and so on. Is it
the onus, as I say, is really honest to make
sure we give that feedback.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Is it harder stuff or is it just more stuff?
A bit of both?

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Actually, yeah, I mean it's again we've had it for
oh gosh about what twelve hours, so early early days.
But yeah, the initial reaction is, it would be fair
to say, particularly again in the science, there's some things
in there that creep in quite early that otherwise we
haven't seen in the past, and then just yet to
share volume of what's in there is quite significant. And

(01:55):
being that that's only other than the English and mass
only two areas so far, it's clearly going to be
quite extensive in terms of what's expected in the school day.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
All Right, we might forget you back once the computer's uploaded.
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