DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

2024 Education Theme: Transform Teaching and Learning to Achieve Quality Education for All"    ****     PNG Education Transformation Vision 2075: Transforming our dreams into reality in the next 50 years    ****     " Leave No Child Behind "    ****    

Primary Education


Primary Education


Primary education begins at Grade 3 and finishes in Grade 8. It caters for the nine to fourteen year age group. Lower primary education comprises Grades 3 to 5, and upper primary Grades 6 to 8.

At 9 years of age children continue their basic education in a primary school. After six years of primary education that begins with a bilingual program, children have the skills to live happily and productively, contribute to their communities and use English to understand basic social, scientific, technological, and personal concepts and value learning after grade 8.


Subjects


Lower Primary Upper Primary
Language Language
Mathematics Mathematics
Community Living Social Science
Health Education Personal Development
Physical Education Making A Living
Environmental Studies Science
Arts Arts