{"id":17,"date":"2020-03-27T13:46:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T13:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/barmullochprimaryschoolwebsite\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2020-06-17T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T18:52:07","slug":"curriculum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/barmullochprimaryschoolwebsite\/curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Curriculum for Excellence<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0is Scotland\u2019s curriculum for children and young people aged 3-18. It is an approach designed to provide pupils with the knowledge, skills and attributes they need for learning, life and work in the 21<\/span><sup>st<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"> century. It aims to enable every child to be:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<ul>\n<li>successful learners<\/li>\n<li>confident individuals<\/li>\n<li>responsible citizens<\/li>\n<li>effective contributors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The curriculum is defined as all the experiences that are planned for children and young people, including activity that would previously have been thought of as extra-curricular. Curriculum for Excellence recognises\u00a0<strong>four contexts for learning<\/strong>\u00a0through:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>curriculum areas<\/li>\n<li>interdisciplinary learning<\/li>\n<li>opportunities for personal achievement<\/li>\n<li>the ethos and life of the school as a community.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The eight curriculum areas are:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"172\">Expressive Arts<\/td>\n<td width=\"172\">Health &amp; Wellbeing<\/td>\n<td width=\"162\">Languages<\/td>\n<td width=\"163\">Numeracy and Mathematics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"172\">Religious &amp; Moral Education<\/td>\n<td width=\"172\">Sciences<\/td>\n<td width=\"162\">Social Studies<\/td>\n<td width=\"163\">Technologies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>These curricular areas may be taught as discrete strands but may also be part of an interdisciplinary approach when aspects of several curricular areas are taught within a common context\/topic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Curriculum for Excellence progression Levels<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Progress in learning is indicated through curriculum levels as detailed below.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"217\">Curriculum Level<\/td>\n<td width=\"454\">Stage<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"217\">Early<\/td>\n<td width=\"454\">The pre-school years and P1 or later for some<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"217\">First<\/td>\n<td width=\"454\">To the end of P4 but earlier or later for some<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"217\">Second<\/td>\n<td width=\"454\">To the end of P7 but earlier or later for some<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"217\">Third, Fourth<\/td>\n<td width=\"454\">S1 to S3 but earlier for some<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"217\">Senior phase<\/td>\n<td width=\"454\">S4-S6 and college or other means of study<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Useful websites<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For additional information on the curriculum you can visit the following websites:<\/p>\n<p>Education Scotland\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.gov.scot\/\">www.education.gov.scot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>National Parent Forum of Scotland\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npfs.org.uk\/\">www.npfs.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curriculum for Excellence\u00a0is Scotland\u2019s curriculum for children and young people aged 3-18. It is an approach designed to provide pupils with the knowledge, skills and attributes they need for learning, life and work in the 21st century. 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