Curriculum for Excellence
Scotland’s curriculum – Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) – helps our children and young people gain the knowledge, skills and attributes needed for life in the 21st century.
A refreshed narrative on Scotland’s curriculum, which sets CfE within the current context, was published in September 2019.
This section contains relevant documentation in relation to the CfE and the Health and Wellbeing curriculum.
Key Documentation Explained
Benchmarks – The Curriculum for Excellence Benchmarks set out clear statements about what learners need to know and be able to do to achieve a level across all curriculum areas.
Experiences and outcomes (often called Es+Os) are a set of clear and concise statements about children’s learning and progression in each curriculum area. They are used to help plan learning and to assess progress.
Resources to support the Refreshed Curriculum for Excellence Narrative – These resources have been designed to support practitioners in engaging with the Refreshed Curriculum for Excellence Narrative, published on 9 September 2019.
Principles and practice – The principles and practice documents are essential reading for practitioners as they begin, and then develop, their work with the statements of experiences and outcomes.
Building the Curriculum – The ‘Building the Curriculum’ document series provides advice, guidance and policy for different aspects of Curriculum for Excellence including: the curriculum areas assessment; and developing skills for learning, life and work.
