Primary Matters

Primary Matters December 1997

From Board Bulletin, December 1997

Primary Syllabus Development Schedule

The following chart provides information about progress on the development of K-6 syllabus documents in relation to the agreed target completion dates. These completion dates have been scheduled to ensure that appropriate consultation takes place with teachers prior to the release of syllabuses in the Key Learning Areas and to ensure that the syllabuses are released in an orderly fashion with due consideration for teacher workload.

While the Board will have the syllabus documents available as indicated, decisions about implementation dates will be left to school systems or schools.
In addition to the above KLA syllabus documents, the Board will be releasing Languages syllabuses for Korean, Chinese and Italian over the next twelve months.

Key Learning Area Curriculum Project Target completion date Progress Anticipated distribution date of final documents to schools
Mathematics Development of stage outcomes for the existing 1989 Mathematics K-6 Syllabus July 1997 The Draft Outcomes released for consultation in 1997 were endorsed by the Board on November 4 In schools for use from the commencement of 1998
English Revision of the Syllabus and Support Document March 1998 Draft Syllabus and Support Documents currently in schools for consultation March 1998
Human Society and Its Environment Development of the HSIE K-6 Syllabus and Support Documents July 1998 Writing Brief for the syllabus amended following consultation in 1997 In schools for use from the commencement of 1999
Personal Development, Health and Physical Education Development of PDHPE K-6 Syllabus and Support Documents based on current draft (in schools) 1999/2000 Project team to be appointed in December to develop final syllabus and support documents from the current draft September 1999
Creative Arts Development of Creative Arts K6 Syllabus and Support Documents 1999/2000 A small sample of schools is currently involved in an informal trial of draft units of work for the draft support document 1999/2000