{"id":29,"date":"2019-11-19T10:04:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T10:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/whinhillprimaryschool\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2025-07-07T00:11:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T00:11:33","slug":"our-learning-journey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/whinhillprimaryschool\/our-learning-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Learning Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the curriculum?<\/strong><\/p>\n<article>Curriculum for Excellence is Scotland\u2019s curriculum for children and young people aged 3-18. It\u2019s an approach designed to provide young people with the knowledge, skills and attributes they need for learning, life and work in the 21st century.<\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article>It aims to enable every child or young person to be:<\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><strong>Successful learners &#8211; Luchd-ionnsachaidh soirbheachail<\/strong><\/article>\n<article><strong>Confident individuals &#8211; Daoine misneachail<\/strong><\/article>\n<article><strong>Responsible citizens &#8211; Saoranaich Earbsach<\/strong><\/article>\n<article><strong>Effective contributors &#8211; Com-p\u00e0irtichean \u00e8ifeachdach<\/strong><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/education.gov.scot\/media\/u2lgmyum\/4capacities.jpg?rmode=max&amp;width=288&amp;height=258\" alt=\"four circles showing the four capacities: successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors\" \/><strong>Stages and Levels<\/strong>The curriculum is broken into two broad stages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a <a href=\"https:\/\/education.gov.scot\/parentzone\/learning-in-scotland\/Broad%20general%20education\">broad general education<\/a>, providing a rounded education from the early years until the end of S3<\/li>\n<li>a <a href=\"https:\/\/education.gov.scot\/parentzone\/learning-in-scotland\/senior-phase\/What%20is%20the%20senior%20phase?\">senior phase<\/a>, which will include studying for qualifications (from S4-S6).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The broad general education is divided into five <a href=\"https:\/\/education.gov.scot\/parentzone\/learning-in-scotland\/Curriculum%20levels\">curriculum levels<\/a> (Early, First, Second, Third and Fourth) across <a href=\"https:\/\/education.gov.scot\/parentzone\/learning-in-scotland\/curriculum-areas\">eight curriculum areas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><strong>Curriculum Levels<\/strong><\/p>\n<article>\u200b\u200b\u200bThere are five curriculum levels \u2013 Early, First, Second, Third and Fourth \u2013 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/education.gov.scot\/curriculum-for-excellence\/about-curriculum-for-excellence\/curriculum-stages\/broad-general-education\/\">broad general education<\/a> (from early years to the end of S3).<\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article>\n<article>The diagram below shows the five curriculum levels before progression to the senior phase (S4-S6).<\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<\/article>\n<article><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2829\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/whinhillprimaryschool\/our-learning-journey\/cfe-levels\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/public\/whinhillprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/6094\/2025\/02\/14110950\/CfE-Levels.png\" data-orig-size=\"479,237\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"CfE Levels\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/public\/whinhillprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/6094\/2025\/02\/14110950\/CfE-Levels-300x148.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/public\/whinhillprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/6094\/2025\/02\/14110950\/CfE-Levels.png\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2829 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/public\/whinhillprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/6094\/2025\/02\/14110950\/CfE-Levels.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/public\/whinhillprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/6094\/2025\/02\/14110950\/CfE-Levels.png 479w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/public\/whinhillprimaryschool\/uploads\/sites\/6094\/2025\/02\/14110950\/CfE-Levels-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<article><\/article>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><b>Diagrams \u00a9 Education Scotland<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the curriculum? Curriculum for Excellence is Scotland\u2019s curriculum for children and young people aged 3-18. It\u2019s 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: Successful learners &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/whinhillprimaryschool\/our-learning-journey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Learning Journey<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":686,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/whinhillprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/whinhillprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/whinhillprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/whinhillprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/686"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/whinhillprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/whinhillprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2911,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/whinhillprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/2911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/in\/whinhillprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}