1 Apr 2025

Shakespeare compulsory for seniors in draft English curriculum

From Checkpoint, 4:06 pm on 1 April 2025

The draft Year 7-13 English curriculum comes with a list of "suggested" texts including the World War Two speeches of Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King's ''I have a dream speech." It says at all year levels "students must experience historical and contemporary texts that are widely regarded as high quality." Pip Tinning, the President of the NZ Association for the teaching of English spoke to Lisa Owen.