Teaching should ensure that 'scientific enquiry' is taught through contexts taken from the sections on 'life processes and living things', 'materials and their properties' and 'physical processes'.

Teaching should ensure that 'knowledge and understanding' are applied when 'developing ideas', 'planning', 'making products' and 'evaluating' them.

Teaching should encourage design, thinking, and problem solving with students recognising the needs of a variety of client groups.

Teaching should ensure that appropriate connections are made between the sections on 'number' and 'shape, space and measures'.