The New Zealand Curriculum

We have released the draft framework for relationships and sexuality education (RSE) for public feedback.

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We’re testing a rating and review system on select resources.

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Two new publications are arriving in schools across Aotearoa to support Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories.

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The Years 7-13 English learning area content draft for the refreshed New Zealand Curriculum is now available for your review. 

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New templates for number structure, operations, rational numbers, and geometry and measurement are available now.

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Insights from the first of four maths professional learning days are helping us to measure the effectiveness of that PLD.

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We've started work to deliver a new assessment and aromatawai tool.


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Information on how schools can integrate their Ministry-provided maths resources into a learning programme that fits with the revised Years 0 to 8 maths learning area.

More information on when the draft English learning area for Years 7-13 will be available for your review and feedback.

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Our latest resource to help Years 0-3 teachers identify student needs and accelerate literacy learning is available now.

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A set of 29 new Ready to Read Phonics Plus phonics cards are out now, adding to the resources that are already available to help you bring structured literacy approaches into...

The Ministry is using the report to inform a range of supports to accelerate progress so all learners can access the curriculum and celebrate success. Find out more here.

To help with the introduction of the first ever nationally consistent phonics checks the Ministry is running webinars to take you through how to do the checks.

For the first time, a consistent tool to check how children are progressing in learning how to read is available for all Year 1 teachers. 

The next learning area content draft for the refreshed National Curriculum are now available for your review.

All of our previous news stories and updates can be found on the Previous Updates tab, which you can find on the bottom of the Tāhūrangi home page.