Around half of secondary schools in Wales won’t start the new curriculum for Wales as planned next term. The biggest reform of education in Wales for decades will roll out in primary schools and for year sevens in secondaries from September - but scores of secondaries say they are not ready and will take up the offer from the Welsh Government to delay until 2023.
Unions have long warned that preparations for the new curriculum had stalled thanks to Covid disruption. Revealing on Twitter that “over half of secondary schools will start teaching their new curricula to year 7 from September” Education Minister Jeremy Miles said he was “really pleased”.
The Minister did not give an exact figure but a Welsh Government spokesman confirmed that around half of secondaries would start the new curriculum from next term, as planned, and half not.
