It called on the government to publish its plans for the secondary curriculum "as soon as possible".
In addition, Hillview pupils interviewed some of the 60 head teachers who were visiting the school for a conference on the new secondary school curriculum.
New secondary school curriculum options, including junior apprenticeships for 14 to 16 year-olds, are giving pupils more choice to meet their aspirations, and we will take curriculum reform further.
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Also, foreign languages have now been compulsory in the secondary school curriculum since 1992 and the literacy strategy means primary school children are now more familiar with the rules of grammar.
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Around 40 participants including secondary school teachers, curriculum planners, representatives of different ministries and other national stakeholders attended the workshop held from October 20th to 21st in 2011.
The secondary headteachers union suggests the curriculum is in theory a good idea but in many ways impractical.
It said it was prioritising "two fundamental issues" - increasing the number of Welsh medium pupils in the early years and primary sectors, and improving the Welsh medium curriculum offer for secondary and post-16 pupils.
Over the longer term, there must be more strategic investments made to ensure some degree of alignment between the curriculum of our secondary schools and the sectors of the economy where growth can be anticipated.
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The announcements on abandoning the new qualifications come alongside the publication of changes to the curriculum for primary and secondary schools.
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Secondary teacher leaders claim the new curriculum is not fully developed and it should be delayed for a year.
Can it be that ministers have taken fright at the flexibility it introduced the new curriculum for the early secondary years?
She said the revised national curriculum for primary and secondary schools in England, unveiled by the government in February, "looks forward to a rosy past, packed full of facts".
The government announced a review of the national curriculum for both primary and secondary schools in January 2011.
Secondary teacher leaders have claimed the new curriculum is not fully developed and have called on it to be delayed for a year.
"It is also a concern that secondary schools are squeezing history out of the curriculum or into general humanities courses, " he said.
In secondary education, specialist schools have shown significant improvements in results, and most secondary schools and are now exploring the best curriculum areas in which to develop real centres of excellence and boost their provision.
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Already, some sixth forms offer "master classes" for some bright secondary pupils, stretching them further than the standard curriculum.
But a spokesperson said it was vital to get the basics right in primary schools and to make the curriculum relevant to older, non-academic secondary school pupils.
That's why the government has just announced plans to beef up the primary curriculum and why it's hoping to do the same in secondary education.
Prof Mary James, who was part of the government's expert panel, told the TES she was broadly supportive of the simpler curriculum but highlighted the fact that the sections on the overall aims for secondary education had simply been reproduced from primary programmes of study.
We welcomed the launch at the 7th ASEAN Education Ministers Meeting in Yogyakarta in July 2012 of the U.S.-supported ASEAN Curriculum Sourcebook as a manual for teachers to incorporate lessons on ASEAN into primary and secondary classrooms.
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Mr Russell insisted 360 secondary schools were "on track" to introduce the new exams and course work required by the new curriculum.
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