NEW CURRICULUM FOR LOWER SECONDARY

EXTRACTS FROM NCDC CIRCULAR 1/2020 DATED 2ND JANUARY 2020

• COMPULSORY SUBJECTS IN S.1 2020.

1. MATHEMATICS
2. ENGLISH LANGUAGE
3. PHYSICS
4. BIOLOGY
5. CHEMISTRY
6. GEOGRAPHY
7. HISTORY & POLITICAL EDUCATION.
8. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ( CRE or IRE)
9. ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION
10. KISWAHILI
11. PHYSICAL EDUCATION

• The school is required to choose only four (4) elective subjects from which the leaner picks/selects one to be added to the 11 compulsory subjects listed above.

• Schools are requested to submit formal requests to the Director, NCDC for the instruction materials required to teach a maximum of four (4) elective subjects to be selected from the list of electives for Senior 1 and 2 below. On delivering the request letter, the school will accordingly be issued with the elective teaching syllabi of those identified subjects.

• The electives for senior 1 and 2:

The choice for the elective subjects will be made from the following groupings: