In January 2026, our S2 Personal and Social Education programme has a specific focus on Personalisation and Choice to support pupils to make some choices for their S3 courses which will help them to focus their skills and develop their understanding of specific subject areas.

S3 is part of Curriculum for Excellence, Broad General Education so your child will still be studying each of the following curricular areas:

• Expressive arts
• Health and wellbeing
• Languages (including English and Modern Languages)
• Mathematics
• Religious and moral education
• Sciences
• Social studies
• Technologies

During PSE lessons, Principal Teachers of Pupil Support will go over each choice in detail (see presentation below) and will answer any questions that our young people may have. 

All S3 pupils will continue their studies in English, Maths and Health and Wellbeing (PE, RME and PSE).

Young people will make further choices at the end of S3 to choose the subjects that they will study for their National Qualifications in S4. Parents/carers will be invited to an information event regarding this usually in January of their S3.