CURRICULUM for EXCELLENCE (CfE)

Curriculum for Excellence; a curriculum for 3-18 years old, is designed to provide our pupils with the knowledge, skills and attributes they need for learning, life and work in an ever-changing world.

Learn more about the 3 – 18 curriculum here.

CURRICULUM FOR EXCELLENCE LEVELS

The primary curriculum covers three levels:

Early:          The pre-school years and P1 or later for some.

First:          To the end of P4, but earlier or later for some.

Second:      To the end of P7, but earlier or later for some.

KEY AREAS OF EDUCATION

 Literacy across learning

Numeracy across learning and

Health and Wellbeing across learning

Curriculum for Excellence is all about bringing real life into the classroom and taking lessons beyond it. Learning and teaching will still focus on subjects and knowledge in addition to developing skills and understanding.

CURRICULUM DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Our curriculum is designed around the 7 Design Principles of Curriculum for Excellence:

• Challenge and Enjoyment – Pupils should find their learning challenging, engaging and motivating
• Breadth – Pupils should have opportunities for a broad, suitably weighted range of experiences
• Progression – Pupils should experience continuous progression in their learning from 3 to 18
• Depth – There should be opportunities for pupils to develop their full capacity for different types of thinking and learning
• Personalisation and Choice – The curriculum should respond to individual needs and support particular aptitudes and talents
• Coherence – There should be clear links between the different aspects of pupils’ learning, including opportunities for activities which draw different strands of learning together
• Relevance – Pupils should understand the purposes and the value of what they are learning and its relevance to their lives, present and future

 

CURRICULUM AREAS

The curriculum areas are:

• Expressive Arts
• Language and Literacy
• Health and Wellbeing
• Mathematics and Numeracy
• Religious and Moral Education
• Sciences
• Social Studies
• Technologies   

Our Curriculum is designed to ensure that we help our children to develop the attributes and capabilities of the four capacities.  Our aim is to provide a variety of opportunities for our learners to become:

• Successful Learners
• Responsible Citizens
• Confident Individuals
• Effective Contributors

We deliver our curriculum through

• Ethos and Life of the School as a Community
• Inter-Disciplinary Learning
• Curriculum Areas and Subjects
• Opportunities for Wider Achievement

A summary of the key features of the 3-18 curriculum and the terms used to describe these.

https://education.gov.scot/media/0g2cthxv/cfefactfileoverview.pdf