A couple of weeks ago, I touched on the refresh of the NZ Curriculum document. The final draft of Te Mātaiaho will be released in Term 3, 2023.

💻 You can have a look at the draft document here. 

Scroll down to the blue 'download' button.

Te Mātaiaho will continue the same eight learning areas as in the existing 2007 Curriculum (in no particular order!): 

• English
• Mathematics and Statistics
• Science
• Social Sciences
• The Arts
• Technology
• Health and Physical Education
• Learning languages

These are being developed and released in phases, and schools will have until the beginning of 2027 to start using the fully refreshed curriculum.

The Key Competencies are also the same:

• Thinking
• Using language, symbols and texts
• Managing self
• Relating to others
• Participating and contributing

The whakapapa of Te Mātaiaho | the refreshed NZ Curriculum

A diagram has been used to show the layers of the curriculum:

• Mātairangi | The guiding kaupapa: The overarching kaupapa (or focus), expressing the centrality of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its principles, and New Zealand's vision for education
• Mātainuku | Creating a foundation: The purpose of the curriculum, and its principles and their associated calls to action
• Mātaitipu | Vision for young people: The educational vision for young people, as conceived by young people

• Mātairea | Supporting progress: The whole schooling pathway, and the overarching focus and essential pedagogies for kaiako and kaimahi at each phase of learning
• Mātaiaho | Weaving learning within and across learning areas: The whole schooling pathway, and the overarching focus and essential pedagogies for kaiako and kaimahi at each phase of learning
• Mātaioho | School curriculum design and review: The process by which schools draw on the national curriculum to design their school curriculum
• Mātaiahikā | Connecting to place and community: Learning through local relationships with tangata whenua and the community

Mātauranga Māori will sit at the heart of the learning areas, with key competencies, literacy, and numeracy explicitly woven into each learning area. 

While the refreshed curriculum is written in English - and will be delivered predominantly in English - it is underpinned by mātauranga Māori, which is, at its loosest, Māori ways of knowing.

If whānau are interested, I am happy to organise opportunities to further explore the refreshed curriculum, as we as staff unpack each area as it is released.