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6 Extracts from National Curriculum: introductory notes
Appendices 7-10 contain extracts from, or summaries of, the National Curriculum (NC). As explained in the main text of this report (see Education Section) the NC was in place by the early 1990s but has undergone considerable change, including major reductions and additions, in the intervening period. It also varies from country to country within the UK. The statutory requirements are contained in Programmes of Study (PoS) for each subject (e.g. see Appendix 7 (science) and Appendix 8 (geography). The government through the QCA has also provided advice to teachers on approaches for delivering these topics and concepts in Schemes of Work. For science the related units are listed at Appendix 10 and are also referred to in the example given in Appendix 11.
For the purposes of this report, only those Programmes of Study which have some relationship to quarrying, are quoted. For convenience these have been formatted as follows:
Major specific references - bold, underlined, thus:
g) about the variety of useful substances [for example, chlorine, sodium hydroxide, glass, cement] that can be made from rocks and minerals
Important but less specific references, or of more limited application - in bold:
b) sort objects into groups on the basis of simple material properties [for example, roughness, hardness, shininess, ability to float, transparency and whether they are magnetic or nonmagnetic]
More generic topics where the industry can supply examples - underlined only:
5a) how insulation is used to reduce transfer of energy from hotter to colder objects
More generic examples where occasionally it might be appropriate to use the industry - plain text:
3e) that the electromagnetic spectrum includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet waves, Xrays and gamma rays.