Confident Individual<\/strong>
Responsible Citizen<\/strong>
Effective Contributor<\/strong><\/p>\n
These are known as the Four Capacities<\/strong> and are developed across all aspects of school life and learning.<\/p>\n Children experience learning across eight curriculum areas:<\/p>\n Literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing are developed across learning, giving children opportunities to apply these important skills in a range of contexts.<\/p>\n Within our Catholic school, Religious Education is taught through This Is Our Faith<\/strong>, supporting children in developing their faith and understanding as they progress through primary school.<\/p>\n Curriculum for Excellence is organised into different curriculum levels. During the primary years, children generally progress through:<\/p>\n Early Level<\/strong> \u2013 typically Nursery and Primary 1 These levels provide a guide to progression rather than a fixed timetable. Children learn and develop at different rates, and teachers plan learning to provide appropriate support, pace, challenge and depth for individual learners.<\/p>\n We want learning at OLA to be active, engaging, inclusive and appropriately challenging.<\/p>\n Children are encouraged to take an active role in their learning. They have regular opportunities to talk, collaborate, investigate, problem-solve, create, make choices and reflect on their progress.<\/p>\n Kagan Cooperative Learning is an important part of our whole-school approach to learning and teaching.<\/p>\n Through carefully selected cooperative learning structures, children have regular opportunities to work together purposefully, share their thinking, listen to others and contribute to their team’s learning.<\/p>\n Kagan helps us create classrooms in which every child is actively involved and every child has a voice, while developing important skills such as communication, cooperation, confidence and responsibility.<\/p>\n Teachers use Kagan alongside a wide range of other teaching approaches, selecting the methods which best meet the needs of learners and the purpose of the lesson.<\/p>\n Children are given opportunities to make connections across their learning and apply their knowledge and skills in meaningful contexts.<\/p>\n This includes opportunities for digital learning, outdoor learning, interdisciplinary learning, sustainability and Laudato Si’, pupil leadership, creativity and engagement with our school, parish and wider community.<\/p>\n Through these experiences, we aim to help children understand that learning does not happen only within individual subjects, but connects to their lives and the world around them.<\/p>\n Scotland’s curriculum is currently undergoing a national programme of curriculum improvement, building on the foundations of Curriculum for Excellence.<\/p>\n At OLA, we will continue to review and develop our curriculum in response to national and local guidance, ensuring our approach reflects current expectations while continuing to meet the needs of our children.<\/p>\n We believe that parents and carers are important partners in their children’s learning.<\/p>\n Our termly Curricular Newsletters<\/strong> provide families with an overview of the learning taking place in each class and highlight key areas of learning for the term.<\/p>\n Curricular Newsletters for each class can be found on our Curricular Newsletters<\/strong> page.<\/p>\n\ud83d\udcda Our Curriculum Areas<\/h2>\n
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\ud83d\udcc8 Progression Through Primary School<\/h2>\n
First Level<\/strong> \u2013 typically Primary 2 to Primary 4
Second Level<\/strong> \u2013 typically Primary 5 to Primary 7<\/p>\n\ud83e\udd1d Learning & Teaching at OLA<\/h2>\n
Kagan Cooperative Learning<\/h3>\n
\ud83c\udf0d Learning Beyond Subjects<\/h2>\n
\ud83d\udd04 Scotland’s Curriculum is Evolving<\/h2>\n
\ud83c\udfe0 Keeping Families Informed<\/h2>\n
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