A letter to Professor Becky Francis from P.U.G

Call for a separate review of the Curriculum and Assessment in primary education.

We, as organizations and individuals associated with Primary Umbrella Group (PUG), with an interest and expertise in young children’s education and the primary curriculum in particular, are very concerned at several aspects of the Curriculum and Assessment Review. PUG is a national forum for those concerned with primary and early years education. Currently some twenty-five organizations are represented, reflecting a very wide range of expertise in terms of curriculum, assessment and pedagogy. PUG does not issue policy statements as a group, but co-ordinates responses such as these.

Put simply, the Interim Report seems to suggest that the current curriculum and assessment arrangements are working well in primary settings and therefore do not require significant change. We believe that this is not the case. 

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