 Replace curriculum tinkering by genuine curriculum reform.Seize the opportunity presented by
the dropping of the primary curriculum clauses from the Children, Schools and Families Bill and the
launch of the new national curriculum review in January 2011.Understand that the Rose reviewʼs
narrow remit prevented it from addressing some of the problems of the primary curriculum which are
most in need of attention, especially the counterproductive sacrificing of curriculum entitlement to a
needlessly restricted notion of ʻstandardsʼ, the corrosive split between the ʻbasicsʼ and the rest, the
muddled posturing on subjects, knowledge and skills, and the vital matter of the relationship between
curriculum quality, expertise and staffing; and that the curriculum debate therefore remains wide open.