Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of kinaesthetic learning.

We support teachers to use evidence-based approaches and their professional judgement to choose the teaching methods that will best support their pupils to learn and progress, including active and hands-on approaches where appropriate.

Work is now underway to deliver a new curriculum and assessment system that is ambitious for every child, rich in knowledge and strong on skills. Programmes of study for each curriculum subject will be refreshed in line with the Curriculum and Assessment Review’s recommendations, and we are working towards a revised national curriculum being published in spring 2027, for first teaching in 2028. There will be opportunity to provide views on the new curriculum content when the department conducts a public consultation on the draft programmes of study later in the year.