Christopher Luxon’s speech and a media conference will be streamed live on Stuff from noon.
Christopher Luxon, leader of the National Party give a speech today on the primary education curriculum.
National has been critical of New Zealand’s decline in literacy and reading standards compared to internal peers, and it is a policy area in which Luxon has shown a great deal of personal interest.
The new policy, called ‘Learn the basics brilliantly’, will focus on how maths, literacy and science are taught in primary schools.
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Luxon also said the new policy would not aim to return to old-fashioned teaching methods, but to give teachers what they need to teach the basics well.
“What we’re seeing are great teachers, really thinking about ways to engage those students and hold their interest,” Luxon said during a visit to Dawson Primary School on Wednesday.
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National leader Christopher Luxon visits Dawson Primary School in Otara, Auckland.
Luxon will deliver the speech in the Hutt Valley. He will address an audience of the Chamber of Commerce because, as is well known, one of the main things that National Party MPs are consistently told by companies is that they are concerned about the quality of the students produced by the New Zealand education system.