The Department for Education has published draft primary national curriculum programmes of study for these subjects so that they can be discussed ahead of a formal consultation later this year.
The final programmes will be introduced into primary schools in September 2014.
The draft programmes have been drawn up following a report by an expert panel chaired by Tim Oates, director of research and assessment at Cambridge Assessment and Professors Mary James, Andrew Pollard and Dylan Wiliam.
In a letter to Tim Oates, education secretary Michael Gove, said, 'I want schools to have high expectations for all subjects – regardless of whether they are tested nationally – and set these high expectations out in their own school curricula, which, from September, must be published online and lay out what is taught year-by-year.
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