HC Deb 04 February 1991 vol 185 c12W
Mr. Andrew Smith

To 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. Eggar

Evidence 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.