College Monday to prepare for the new middle school curriculum.

The Ministry of Education is holding the two-week workshop for teachers and other education officials who will write the middle schools' curriculum which will be used for the first time this September in Primary Seven classes at public schools.

During the next two weeks, the committee of teachers will be developing lesson plans within each subject.

The school subjects that they will be working on are business studies/information technology, dance, design, family studies, foreign languages, health education, language arts, mathematics, music, physical education, science, social studies and visual arts.

Teams of teachers and community consultants will also develop "cross-curricular connections'' which foster the teaching of an integrated curriculum.

A portion of the workshop will be devoted to developing lesson plans incorporating the new Police Liaison programme where local Police officers will implement crime prevention and early intervention programmes in school.

The summer writing workshop will culminate the Ministry's two-year effort to a more "Bermudianised'' and multi-cultural programme of instruction.

Education Minister Jerome Dill, who opened Monday's workshop, said with the new school system the level of public school education should be "at least as good'' as the private school system.

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