Release of the New Curriculum for Wales

Finally, the Curriculum for Wales has been released today. It's only been available for a couple of hours but I've had a quick look and for what it's worth, here are my initial observations on the What Matters 6 section of the Science and Technology Area of Learning and Experience.

- quite a lot of change between the draft and final version in WM6
- removal of Experiences, Knowledge and Skills section
- The What Matters Statement or as they are now called, "Statements of What Matters" have changed. Both the basic statement and the more detailed version. Less wordy.
- Removal of the headings, Algorithm, Data, Computational Systems, Cyber-security. No headings at all.
- Introduction of the words "beginning to" in nearly all the statements at PS1 and one at PS2.
- Removal of many of the DCF cross over statements that annoyed me so much in the draft (see my post from May 2019). The Data section in particular in PS1 and PS2.
- More statements at PS3 compared to PS1 and 2. Possibly better clarity on what's required with regards to coding skills (conditional statements, repeating patterns / loops).
- Got rid of the horrendous statements that were in the Experiences, Knowledge and Skills section (PS3) around "Wales’ contributions to the continual development and use of computational technologies, and their influence on Welsh affairs" and others of similar ilk. Thank goodness for that.

I'm sure I'll be writing more about this over the coming weeks, months and years :-)

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