All children’s learning experiences are provided by guidelines set out by the Scottish Government under “Curriculum for Excellence.”

There are eight curriculum areas:

Literacy, Numeracy and Health & Wellbeing are given added importance because these skills are so vital in everyday life. All teachers have responsibility to teach these 3 core areas.  Within the schools vision and values, communication, independence and social skill development are extremely important and as such the school provides a wide range of experiences for pupils in their immediate, local and wider communities. This is  enhanced through our total communication environment and our core curriculum.   Where appropriate, published literacy and numeracy schemes are used such as Oxford Reading Tree and North Lanarkshire Active Literacy Programme and SEAL.  These are supplemented by a resources which teachers have developed to cater for the specific needs of our pupils.

Our pupils learn in different ways, through listening, watching and doing. Teachers     prepare their lessons so that children have the opportunity to experience all ways of learning in the different areas of the curriculum.  Our teaching and learning is focussed and the school has an active learning approach. In the early years children will have a range of learning experiences that include planned and purposeful play and stimulating learning which engages and challenges children’s thinking using real life and imaginary situations.  As children progress through school they continue to be involved in active learning experiences which are engaging and give them ownership of their own leaning. These become increasingly linked to providing pupils with opportunities to make choices and develop the skills necessary for interdependent and independent learning.