Extracts from Westminster Hall debate on History Curriculum: Migration - Jun 18
Wednesday, 19 June 2019 07:52
Mike Kane (Wythenshawe and Sale East) (Lab):...To allow a full,
accurate and representative British history to be taught, we must
lift the structural constraints. Labour’s schools policy would
tackle that. We announced at the National Education Union
conference earlier this year that Labour will scrap key stage 1 and
key stage 2 SATs, replacing them with a more flexible and practical
primary assessment system. The new system will free teachers up so
that they can better deliver a rich and...Request free trial
(Wythenshawe and Sale East)
(Lab):...To allow a full, accurate and representative British
history to be taught, we must lift the structural constraints.
Labour’s schools policy would tackle that. We announced at the
National Education Union conference earlier this year that Labour
will scrap key stage 1 and key stage 2 SATs, replacing them with a
more flexible and practical primary assessment system. The new
system will free teachers up so that they can better deliver a rich
and varied curriculum. We also committed, in our manifesto, to
launching a commission on the curriculum, which will give
politicians a chance to listen to everyone. The commission will
allow input from experts across all subjects, including on issues
such as the one we are debating. It is not good enough in this day
and age that the way to change society should be for MPs to raise
curriculum change in this place. That is how change was made to the
sex and relationships curriculum—on the back of an amendment to the
Children and Social Work Act 2017. We have to do better than that
when it comes to designing the country’s curriculum. Evidence shows
that when children are taught a wide-ranging curriculum and
encouraged to be creative and to develop their imagination, they do
better at the core elements of literacy and numeracy too...
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