Every learner in Aberdeenshire has the entitlement to the highest quality learning and teaching. School staff, in partnership with learners, should develop a classroom ethos where everyone respects one another. Across Aberdeenshire all learners should experience a positive learning environment that maximises learning and progress.
Both Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) documentation and research share key messages which entitles all children and young people to have opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to adapt, think critically and flourish in today’s world:
“To develop learners who can engage and thrive in the increasingly complex universe of the 21st century: individually, collectively and in relation to the planet.
And to do so while addressing equity and greater equality of outcomes.”
Michael Fullan 2021
CfE, one of the three supporting pillars of the education system, should be considered alongside Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC, 2006) and Developing the Young Workforce: Scotland’s Youth Employment Strategy (2014). The three pillars of support present as a significant and coherent structure – a pillar for what and how children learn (CfE), a pillar to support children’s well-being (GIRFEC) and a pillar to support children and young people into meaningful work (DYW).
CfE places learners at the heart of education. At its centre are four fundamental capacities. These capacities reflect and recognise the lifelong nature of education and learning. The four capacities are aimed at helping children and young people to become:
Across Aberdeenshire we share these aims and will work in partnership to ensure “the learners” is at the centre of planning for effective learning, teaching and assessment, and all are enabled to make the best possible progress.
