Learning Areas Dropped At Junior School and Those Retained
Beginning in January 2024, the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) will reduce the number of subject categories for students enrolled in the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC).
On Tuesday, August 1, 2023, President William Ruto approved the recommendations of the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms (PWPER) and ordered their immediate implementation.
According to the research, starting in the first term of the next year, pupils who are adopting the revised curriculum would cover fewer topics. The number of learning areas will decrease from nine to seven for Grades One through Three.
In addition, the number of learning areas for grades 4 through 6 will drop from 12 to 8 and for grades 7 through 9 from 14 to 9.
There will be five learning areas for grades preschool through six, and seven for classes seven through twelve.
So far, KICD has only made available the updated number of lessons for Junior School (Grades Seven, Eight, and Nine). KICD will as soon as possible distribute the new learning areas for other Grades.
The following is a list of the new junior high school’s required and elective classes. Two classes were dropped: living skills and health education.
Additionally, there used to be a requirement for two optional subjects, but this has changed to only one.
COMPULSORY SUBJECTS
1) English
2) Kiswahili or Kenya Sign Language (KSL)
3) Mathematics
4) Integrated Science
5) Social Studies
6) Business Studies
7) Agriculture
8) Pre-Technical and Pre-Career Studies
9) Religious Studies Education
i) Christian Religious Education (CRE)
ii) Islamic Religious Education (IRE)
iii) Hindu Religious Education (HRE)
OPTIONAL SUBJECTS
10 In optional subjects a student shall take one subject
i) Visual Arts
ii) Performing Arts
iii) Home Science
iv) Computer Science
v) Other Languages (Indigenous Language, French, Arabic, German, Sign Language)
NOTE
Physical Education (P.E.) shall be offered to all learners as a compulsory to support the development of the Psychomotor Domain.
Learning Areas Dropped At Junior School and Those Retained
