NATIONAL CURRICULUM AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS

What do you have to teach if you are a private school? The National
Curriculum only applies for state schools, and private schools are much
freer to decide their own curriculum, enabling them to teach a curriculum
defined by strong religious or philosophical beliefs: Steiner or Montessori,
Christian or Islamic.

Lesley Hilton visits the Bethany School in Netherthorpe near Sheffield which
teaches a Bible based, creationist curriculum to students until GCSE level.

How do they structure their curriculum? To what extent do they follow the
National Curriculum at all? Is what they teach a balanced education?

Liten from about 8 mins in. Here is the link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/rams/learningcurve_current.ram

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