What is the curriculum?

Curriculum for Excellence is Scotland’s curriculum for children and young people aged 3-18.
It’s an approach designed to provide young people with the knowledge, skills and attributes they need for learning, life and work in the 21st century.

It aims to enable every child or young person to be a:

• Successful learner
• Confident individual
• Responsible citizen
• Effective contributor
  

  

  Curriculum entitlements

  Children and young people’s rights and entitlements are central to Scotland’s curriculum and every child and young person is entitled to experience:

  • a curriculum which is coherent from 3 to 18;
  • a broad general education, including well planned experiences and outcomes across all the curriculum areas from early years through to S3. This includes understanding the world, Scotland’s place in it and the environment, referred to as Learning for Sustainability;
  • a senior phase, after S3, which provides opportunities to attain and achieve, including to study for qualifications, awards and other planned activities to develop the four capacities;
  • opportunities for developing skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work;
  • opportunities to maximise their individual potential, benefitting from appropriate personal support and challenge;
  • support to help them move into positive and sustained destinations beyond school.

 

Curriculum for Excellence

Curriculum for Excellence aims to raise standards of learning and teaching for all 3 to 18 year olds.  It aims to prepare children and young people with the knowledge and skills they need in a fast changing world. As part of Curriculum for Excellence, all children from pre-school to the end of S3 will receive a rounded education known as a Broad General Education (BGE).  Curriculum for Excellence is all about bringing real life into the classroom and taking lessons beyond it.

We are committed to providing children with a Broad General Education and focus on eight curriculum areas.

• Languages
• Mathematics
• Health and Wellbeing
• Expressive Arts
• Religious and Moral
• Sciences
• Social Subjects
• Technologies

Our pupils are given a wide range of active learning experiences through the 4 Contexts for Learning.

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Curriculum for Excellence spans learning from 3-18 years.  Its aims are to improve our children’s life chances, to nurture successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors, and responsible citizens, building on Scotland’s reputation for great education.

Many of our learners work between early and first levels with other learning focusing on the benchmarks and milestones, with a bespoke curriculum for each learner.

Our curriculum develops skills for learning, life and work, bringing real life into the classroom, making learning relevant and helping young people apply lessons to their life beyond the classroom.  It links knowledge in one subject area to another helping make connections in their learning.  It develops skills which can enable children to think for themselves, make sound judgements, challenge, enquire and find solutions.

Curriculum for Excellence balances the importance of knowledge and skills.  Every child is entitled to a broad and deep general education, whatever their level and ability.  All teachers are responsible for the development of literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing.

There is an entitlement to personal support to help young people fulfil their potential and make the most of their opportunities with additional support wherever that’s needed.  There will be a new emphasis by all staff on looking after our children’s health and wellbeing – to ensure that the school is a place where children feel safe and secure.