There are apparently moves to once again concentrate on spelling, and grammar in our primary schools.
A wise move, in my opinion.
Creativity is all well and good, but you need to know the basic rules, before letting your imagination run riot.
It's also suggested that the teaching of foreign languages will become compulsary, and taught in all state primaries.
Foreign languages to be compulsory from age seven - Telegraph
After recent stories in the press, about some schools where pupils spoke thirty one different languages, perhaps the foreign language they are taught might be English.
With these moves away from the wooly-minded liberalism that started in the education system in the sixties, who knows, they might just start teaching children once again that there is such a thing as failure, and not everyone is a winner.
Which will reflect what the real world is like, once you leave the cosseted environment of education.
The coalition government haven't got much right so far, but in this case, it does seem a move in the right direction.