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The '''Primary National Strategy''' document was launched in the UK in May 2003 by Charles Clarke, the Secretary of State for Education. The then-existing '''National Numeracy Strategy''' and '''National Literacy Strategy''' were taken under the umbrella of the Primary National Strategy.<ref>{{cite web |title=Primary National Strategy: An evaluation of its impact in primary schools 2004/05 |url=https://dera.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/5648/1/Primary%20National%20Strategy%20an%20evaluation%20of%20its%20impact%202004_05%20%28PDF%20format%29.pdf |website=Digital Education Resource Archive |publisher=Ofsted |access-date=7 November 2024}}</ref>

In September 2006, the frameworks for teaching literacy and mathematics were "renewed" and issued in electronic form as the ''Primary Framework for literacy and mathematics''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Primary Framework for literacy and mathematics |url=https://www.education-uk.org/documents/pdfs/2006-primary-national-strategy.pdf |publisher=Department for Education and Skills (DfES) |website=Education in the UK |access-date=7 November 2024 |date=September 2006}}</ref>

==See also==

*National Curriculum (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) *The National Strategies

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==External links== * [http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100607215842/http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/schemes3/subjects/?view=get Primary National Strategy homepage] (Archived in 2010 when the Coalition Government took office.) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20061106103316/http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primaryframeworks/ Renewed Framework homepage]

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