Talking 'bout a revolution #4: No GCSE teaching in Year 9

A story in today's Sunday Times. 

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The new curriculum, which will be introduced in September 2028, will say that secondary schools should wait to teach the GCSE syllabus until years 10 and 11.

“It will be there in black and white in the national curriculum that schools should not be pulling GCSEs into the curriculum early. We are going to be really clear with schools that we don’t want to see them turn key stage 3 into an early exam factory, or become a waiting room for your GCSEs.

Last year’s curriculum and assessment review, commissioned by the government, said the volume of GCSE content taught in year 10 and 11 “contributes to curtailing the key stage 3 curriculum so that teaching GCSE content can begin early”.