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Kyle Brewerton: The Immediate Past President of the Auckland Primary Principals Association comments on content change to school curriculum · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So the government's unveiled its new school curriculum. This is
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  Speaker 1: years one to ten, so your primary big changes more
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  Speaker 1: focused on New Zealand history, civics, financial education. From year
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  Speaker 1: three consent education becomes compulsory. Carl Briton is the immediate
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  Speaker 1: past president of the Auckland Primary Principles Association with me
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  Speaker 1: this morning, Carl, Good morning, Good morning Ryan. What do
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  Speaker 1: you reckon?
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  Speaker 2: Wells, very early days, we can only actually see other
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  Speaker 2: than the English and maths. We can only actually see
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  Speaker 2: the science and the physical health and educations full documents
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  Speaker 2: at the moment. The rest of it hasn't quite been
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  Speaker 2: uploaded yet.
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  Speaker 1: So there's still a bit of a technical delay there.
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  Speaker 1: You haven't seen the social sciences yet because that'll be
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  Speaker 1: one of the more contentious ones, right, Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I imagine, so you imagine. Sorry, but no we can't
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  Speaker 2: see the full document yet.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So when are you going to see the full document?
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  Speaker 2: I imagine it'll be today. It was all uploaded yesterday
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  Speaker 2: and it's just the case of the system. It's half
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  Speaker 2: updating and ironically last week it updated early.
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  Speaker 1: So from what you from what you have seen, Kyle,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like, there's a lot. I think that's the
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  Speaker 2: immediate reaction. There's an awful particularly the science has got
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  Speaker 2: quite a significant increase in the actual content. So the
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  Speaker 2: onus is going to be on schools and school leaders
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  Speaker 2: to take a real deep dive into that end to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that we do feedback. We've got a six
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  Speaker 2: month window to give feedback to the ministry around what
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  Speaker 2: our impressions are and what we think is doable and
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  Speaker 2: what's achievable and what's relevant and so on. Is it
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  Speaker 2: the onus, as I say, is really honest to make
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  Speaker 2: sure we give that feedback.
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  Speaker 1: Is it harder stuff or is it just more stuff?
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  Speaker 1: A bit of both?
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  Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, I mean it's again we've had it for
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  Speaker 2: oh gosh about what twelve hours, so early early days.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, the initial reaction is, it would be fair
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  Speaker 2: to say, particularly again in the science, there's some things
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  Speaker 2: in there that creep in quite early that otherwise we
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  Speaker 2: haven't seen in the past, and then just yet to
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  Speaker 2: share volume of what's in there is quite significant. And
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  Speaker 2: being that that's only other than the English and mass
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  Speaker 2: only two areas so far, it's clearly going to be
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  Speaker 2: quite extensive in terms of what's expected in the school day.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, we might forget you back once the computer's uploaded.
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