The National Union of Teachers said any lessons must be well integrated into the whole primary curriculum.
In Scotland, most local authorities have put modern languages into the primary curriculum according to Scottish Cilt.
In the near future Learning for Life and Work would become a compulsory part of the post-primary curriculum.
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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.
He, and others, think the gains from SATs at any age are not worth the costs, which include a narrowing of the primary curriculum and ever-increasing teaching to the test.
Responding to Mr Tomlinson's comments, the Department for Education said it was aware of the pressures on the primary curriculum and was working with the QCA on the new guidance for schools.
The draft primary curriculum for maths, due to be introduced in schools next year, contains plans for pupils to memorise their times tables up to 12 by age nine, multiply and divide fractions by age 11, as well as learn topics such as geometry, long division and multiplication and decimals.
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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We need a New Civics curriculum in primary education that teaches corporate governance right alongside the three branches of government.
The government in England is overhauling the maths curriculum for primary schools.
On Saturday he said the national curriculum for primary schools in England would be rewritten with an explicit reference to competitive team sports.
From 2002, nearly one-third of the curriculum for primary and junior high schools will disappear, with deep cuts made in all major subjects.
The report says that the Nepal experience highlights the question of whether primary textbook-driven curriculum development can meet the skills and dispositional learning outcome ambitions of DRR Education.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The tables show how more than 14, 000 primary schools in England performed on a range measures linked to national curriculum tests, known as Sats.
But does this strong international performance suggest it is now possible to lift the foot from the pedal and allow primary schools to return to some of the richer aspects of the curriculum which have been squeezed out by the numeracy and literacy hour?
As a free school, Pimlico Primary, which will have 420 pupils by 2019, will follow a curriculum which follows the principles of US academic, ED Hirsch.
Mr Gove also complained about teaching materials for primary school children published by the Historical Association, a group which has criticised his curriculum plans.
Although unlike the national curriculum tests, the spelling tests will not be centrally administered, all primary schools will be expected to carry them out.
As BBC News Online revealed recently, guidance to primary schools on the amount of time they should be devoting to different parts of the curriculum was due more than a year ago - but still has not appeared.
Primary head teachers and council education bosses have urged the Scottish government to resist calls to delay the Curriculum for Excellence.
State schools will still have to teach national curriculum subjects, but not the detailed programmes of study, except for the last two years of primary school.
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