Gove has told teachers that they don't have to stick to the old curriculum.
The new curriculum's emphasis on knowledge poses a further problem: how will pupils now learn the skills that were a key part of the old curriculum?
The headteacher, Stephen Gilhooley, says: "Under the old curriculum, we would know more or less what a child would be doing all the way through primary.
The Association for Citizenship Teaching (Act) recommends teachers continue with the old curriculum for this year, and introduce the new one for the 2014/15 academic year.
This distinction was not made in the old curriculum and it is likely schools will want some clarification over the next year on what these changes represent.
It also corrects the mistake of the old curriculum by making it now compulsory for children to study the entire history of pre-1066 Britain.
On the old Curriculum, Mary Seacole - who cared for soldiers during the Crimean War – appeared in the annex as suggested as someone primary school teachers could use in their classrooms to illustrate Victorian Britain.
Beyond that, teachers are understandably worried that they will be evaluated — and pushed out of jobs — based on how their students perform on tests related to the old curriculum while they are being asked to teach the new one.
