Tāhūrangi outage planned for April 10

The Years 7-13 English learning area content draft for the refreshed New Zealand Curriculum is now available for your review. 

Read more here.

We’ve started work to deliver a new assessment and aromatawai tool.

You can find out more information here.

We’ve made some minor changes to our five-year implementation timeline.

You can find out more information here.

To help with the introduction of the first ever nationally consistent phonics checks the Ministry is running webinars to take you through how to do the checks.

Learn more about the range of new and refreshed resources that have been sent to every Years 0–8 kura and school using Te Marautanga o Aotearoa.

For the first time, a consistent tool to check how children are progressing in learning how to read is available for all Year 1 teachers. 

For the first time all kura and schools teaching pānui and tuhituhi through te reo Māori can access a suite of phonics tools specifically created for te reo Māori learners.

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