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Use and adapt the following curriculum policy to suit your service and meet regulatory requirements.

Your curriculum policy must be consistent with the curriculum framework and be informed by assessment, planning, and evaluation (documented and undocumented) that demonstrates an understanding of children’s learning, their interests, whānau, and life contexts.

As well as providing a curriculum policy template for you, we’ve included the questions the Ministry of Education commonly asks and focuses on when it is checking an ECE service’s curriculum policy and implementation.

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To ensure the process of planning, evaluating and delivering a localised curriculum is consistent with

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