Holy Family Primary School, Assumption Catholic Primary School, St Philomena's School and Cathedral Catholic Primary School have all started the introduction process of the new curriculum which will be mandatory in all schools by 2023.

Catholic Education schools consultant Rose-Marie van Raad said there's been a lot of consultation with teachers, parents and students since 2018 and they are really looking forward to the implementation of the new curriculum.

"Basically what it means is the whole curriculum, from K to 12, is going to be redone," Ms van Raad said.

"So every single syllabus in a school that teachers in NSW have to teach from is being updated and changed, taking on board the feedback.

"The teachers are so excited about it."

The new syllabus was released on Monday, November 15 with maths and English from kindergarten to Year 2 the first to be phased in.

Ms van Raad said the new curriculum focuses more on real-world applications and it's crucial to build those foundations early.

It also sets out to remove any ambiguity for teachers when planning lessons around the curriculum.

"The curriculum reforms are focused on building strong foundations for future learning," Ms van Raad said.

"We're trying to get an early start on the mathematics so we can work through one syllabus at a time rather than trying to do both at the same time not as well.

"We've already worked through phase on and two of our five-stage strategy and we're up to phase three already.

"We're so on the front foot with it which is really exciting."

With some schools already implementing the new maths syllabus for years K-2, Ms van Raad said they are using a lot of hands-on material to move towards students being better able to apply their learning to real-world situations.

The aim is to make students critical thinkers by taking their knowledge from the base level of recalling information to really understanding and being able to use it.

With around 200 syllabuses from years K to 12, NSW Education Standards Authority are giving schools a 12-month phase-in period.

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