Pursuant to section 60A of the Education Act 1989 (incorporating all amendments), the Minister of Education hereby publishes in The New Zealand Curriculum and
Te Marautanga o Aotearoa, national curriculum statements for:
The New Zealand Curriculum (2007) Te Marautanga o Aotearoa
The Arts Nga Toi
English Te Reo Maori
Health and Physical Education Hauora
Mathematics and Statistics Pangarau
Science Putaiao
Social Sciences Tikanga a-iwi
Technology Hangarau
Te Reo Pakeha
State schools are to provide learning and teaching programmes based on:
Either
The National Curriculum statements in The New Zealand Curriculum, except that Level 1 and 2 Maori immersion settings that base their learning and teaching programmes on The New Zealand Curriculum must also provide learning and teaching programmes based on Te Reo Pakeha.
Or
The National Curriculum statements in Te Marautanga
o Aotearoa
A board of trustees of a school with a bilingual class or classes where Maori is one of the languages of instruction may develop and implement teaching and learning programmes based on Te Marautanga o Aotearoa for those classes and on teaching and learning programmes in
The New Zealand Curriculum for the rest of the school.
State schools that choose to provide learning and teaching programmes based on The New Zealand Curriculum must adopt the foundation curriculum policy statements for
The New Zealand Curriculum.
State schools that choose to provide learning and teaching programmes based on Te Marautanga o Aotearoa must adopt the foundation curriculum policy statements for
Te Marautanga o Aotearoa.
State schools that choose to provide learning and teaching programmes based on The New Zealand Curriculum must do so from the commencement date of 2 February 2010.
State schools that choose to provide learning and teaching programmes based on Te Marautanga o Aotearoa must do so from the commencement date of 1 February 2011.
The existing national curriculum statements, namely:
Mathematics in the New Zealand Curriculum -
New Zealand Gazette, 18 February 1993, No. 22, page 449
Science in the New Zealand Curriculum - New Zealand Gazette, 17 November 1994, No. 121, page 3568
English in the New Zealand Curriculum - New Zealand Gazette, 30 November 1995, No. 142, page 4635
Technology in the New Zealand Curriculum - New Zealand Gazette, 4 February 1999, No. 16, page 364
Social Studies in the New Zealand Curriculum -
New Zealand Gazette, 10 February 2000, No. 11, page 270
Health and Physical Education in the New Zealand Curriculum - New Zealand Gazette, 13 December 2001, No. 170, page 4172
Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum - New Zealand Gazette, 18 December 2003, No. 173, page 4765
are hereby revoked with effect from 2 February 2011.
This notice revokes and replaces The New Zealand Curriculum: National Curriculum Statements notified in the New Zealand Gazette, 24 January 2008, No. 9, page 251.
During the transition period between the publication of this notice and the applicable date set out above, schools may base their programmes of study on any set of national curriculum statements, but should work towards full implementation of the new curriculum requirements by
2 February 2010 or 1 February 2011 as the case may be.
Copies of The New Zealand Curriculum and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa can be obtained by telephone on 0800 660 662; or from
http://www.thechair.minedu.govt.nz
Copies are also available on http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz
Dated at Wellington this 14th day of October 2009.
HON ANNE TOLLEY, Minister of Education.