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If I listened to the unions, we wouldn't have done any of these reforms.

In fact, we'd still be teaching children how to read by looking at the picture and guessing the word.

You haven't got it quite right there in your intro.

We're going to be re-phasing again.

We've already re-phased once before.

We're going to be re-phasing slightly to introduce social science and science from next year for two years, giving ourselves two years to implement those well with fidelity.

And then everything else will come in 2029.

So, those are the arts and the technology and health and PE and the like.

So,

I've been on the ground listening to the profession for the last few months, especially the Auckland Primary Principals who went out and surveyed all of their members last year for me and provided really good feedback.

So I asked the Ministry for advice earlier this year.

I received it in early April, but I'm wanting to back our teachers to make sure that we get the phasing right.

Well, we already have prioritised certain subjects.

So obviously literacy and numeracy.

So English and maths were first out of the blocks.

And you'll remember we brought maths forward slightly because of the results.

Science is a core subject, as you know, required all the way through right up until year 10.

and we'll be making some announcements about science next week.