§ Mr. Andrew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will make a statement on progress in the implementation of cross-curricular themes within the provisions of the national curriculum.
§ Mr. EggarEvidence from Her Majesty's inspectorate of schools indicates that schools are making good progress in implementing the national curriculum and that it is already having a favourable effect on standards. It is up to individual schools how they deliver the national curriculum subjects and whether certain aspects are linked across subject boundaries in a cross-curricular way. To help schools with this task, however, the National Curriculum Council has recently issued a series of booklets to schools on the effective delivery of cross-curricular themes.