The new core objectives for Frisian language and culture provide schools in Fryslân with tools to integrate education in Frisian language and culture coherently into the curriculum. The Frisian core objectives for primary education have been expanded to include attention to Frisian culture, and schools can link the Frisian language and culture objectives with those of other subjects. In the coming period, schools and school boards will be informed in various ways about the content of the new core objectives and the process. The core objectives are already available on the website www.kurrikulum.frl.
Since 2014, the Provincial States have been granted the authority by the national government to establish the Frisian core objectives. Several years ago, a major national curriculum update was initiated. Cedin is the organization commissioned by the province to renew the Frisian core objectives. Cedin has closely collaborated with the national curriculum developer SLO and the education sector, and in 2024 the Frisian language and culture core objectives were delivered in draft form. After a trial phase, it became clear that schools are positive about the new core objectives and can work well with them. In early December 2025, State Secretary for Education Koen Becking and Deputy Eke Folkerts visited the trilingual primary school t Holdersnêst in Harkema. They were presented with the new core objectives there. Now that the Provincial States have adopted the new core objectives, they will be submitted for approval to the State Secretary for Education.
Language Plan Frisian 2030
When implementing the new core objectives for Frisian language and culture, schools can receive support from Language Plan Frisian 2030. This way, the goal set in the BFTK 2024-2028 is pursued, that by 2030 all Frisian language and culture core objectives are part of the curriculum in all schools in Fryslân. More info: www.taalplan.frl.