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(Text on screen: Your child’s learning: How the curriculum supports your child to thrive.)

(The presenter is standing and talking, facing the camera.)

Kia ora.

As parents and carers, we want the best for our children. And the New Zealand Curriculum and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa are designed to ensure just that.

(A class of primary school children writing at their desks.) 

(The teacher talking to a classroom of kids.) 

(A child hanging a note on a whiteboard.)

(Text on screen : Five phases/tūārere)

The strengthened national curriculum is organised into five phases, or tūārere of learning and includes year-by-year teaching and learning sequences. 

(School children writing at their desks.) 

This means your child | tamaiti will build on their last year's learning.

(Teachers hand pointing to lesson equipment.)

(School children writing at their desks.) 

It sets out what your child | tamaiti is expected to learn over their time at school | kura including the intended levels of knowledge, understanding and skill to be achieved.

(Close up of child writing.)

The curricula are clear, sequenced and evidence-based. 

(Teacher at a whiteboard.)

(Children writing at their desks.)

(Teacher using a large touch screen.)

(Teacher interacting with children.)

(Text on screen: Connecting current learning to existing knowledge.)

(Text on screen: Providing concise, step-by-step explanations.)

(Text on screen: Explaining, modelling and demonstrating new learning.)

(Text on screen: Checking understanding and providing feedback.)

(Text on screen: Providing opportunities to practice.)

It means teachers | kaiako will use explicit teaching which involves connecting current learning to what your child or tamaiti already knows, providing concise step-by-step explanations with your tamaiti or child's input, and discussion, explaining, modelling and demonstrating new learning, regularly checking for understanding and providing feedback and providing opportunities for your tamaiti or child to practice both in groups and independently.

(The presenter is standing and talking, facing the camera.)

The New Zealand Curriculum and Te Marautanga o Aotearoa are the building blocks that support your child's | tamaiti growth.

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(Words on screen : Parent tip. To find out what your child will be learning during each year, check out ‘Understand your child’s learning’:

www.education.govt.nz/understand-learning)