ABSTRACT
The New Zambia Primary Course is an integrated set of materials designed for the entire primary school population of Zambia. It covers English and subjects taught through the medium of English and Zambian languages. One of the major difficulties about teaching Zambian languages in schools is that in the urban areas, children from many different language backgrounds are found together in schools. A revision of the Maths course which may be undertaken in the near future would enable staff to make sure that the course was linguistically integrated but the Social Studies course in the Lower Primary school is now being taught in a Zambian language. Accordingly, a small nucleus of writers began to write a course, which included English Language, Reading, Handwriting, Physical Education, Writing and Creative Activities for the Lower Primary School. Religious Education would continue to be taught in a Zambian language and a basic outline of suggested topics for Zambian languages was also to be included.
