{"id":203,"date":"2021-10-28T17:51:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T16:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/caldercuilt\/?page_id=203"},"modified":"2021-10-28T22:31:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T21:31:30","slug":"curriculum-for-excellence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/caldercuilt\/?page_id=203","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum for Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Curriculum for Excellence<\/strong>\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<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0century. It aims to enable every child to be a:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>successful learner<\/li>\n<li>confident individual<\/li>\n<li>responsible citizen<\/li>\n<li>effective contributor<\/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<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<\/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 discreet 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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The two key resources teachers use to plan learning, teaching and assessment are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/education.gov.scot\/education-scotland\/scottish-education-system\/policy-for-scottish-education\/policy-drivers\/cfe-building-from-the-statement-appendix-incl-btc1-5\/experiences-and-outcomes\/\">Experiences and outcomes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/education.gov.scot\/improvement\/learning-resources\/curriculum-for-excellence-benchmarks\/\">Benchmarks<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Useful websites<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For additional information on the curriculum you can look at our school handbook or visit:<\/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<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/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\u00a0century. It aims to enable every child to be a: successful learner confident individual responsible citizen effective contributor The curriculum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18827,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-203","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/caldercuilt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/caldercuilt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/caldercuilt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/caldercuilt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/caldercuilt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/caldercuilt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/caldercuilt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/caldercuilt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}