Primary schools will cut religion teaching time and begin teaching foreign languages in the biggest curriculum changes in more than 20 years under new proposals.
The new curriculum will allocate more time to wellbeing and cut religion time by half an hour. These changes under the new framework for the primary curriculum that was recently signed off by the State’s advisory body on the curriculum.
Religion would also be supported by a new curriculum on “religion, ethical and multi-belief education”, to give pupils a wider perspective on beliefs, reports the Irish Times. This idea was originally proposed back in 2016 but was shelved amid resistance from the Catholic Church to its introduction alongside faith formation classes.
