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Premium Content  Schools won t teach students to tell the time until Year 2 or recite times tables until Year 4, under a simpler syllabus to start next year. A chainsawed national curriculum has stripped subjects from history, slowed down primary school lessons and postponed the teaching of key maths and science concepts so kids have more time to master the basics of literacy and numeracy. Year 1 students will no longer be taught to tell the time on a clock with hands, or to use fractions - waiting until Year 2 when they are more conceptually ready at the age of six or seven.
 Schools won t teach students to tell the time until Year 2 or recite times tables until Year 4, under a simpler syllabus to start next year. A chainsawed national curriculum has stripped subjects from history, slowed down primary school lessons and postponed the teaching of key maths and science concepts so kids have more time to master the basics of literacy and numeracy. Year 1 students will no longer be taught to tell the time on a clock with hands, or to use fractions - waiting until Year 2 when they are more conceptually ready at the age of six or seven.  Students Ria (left) and Arnav (right) at Glen Waverley Primary School in Melbourne. A simpler syllabus to start next year will mean students would be taught to tell the time until Year 2. Picture: Nicki Connolly
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