{"id":66,"date":"2014-10-05T20:49:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T19:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/northronaldsay\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2021-06-24T14:58:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T13:58:23","slug":"about-our-school","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/northronaldsay\/about-our-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Curriculum for Excellence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The curriculum aims to help every learner develop knowledge, skills and attributes for learning, life and work, to enable each child or young person to be a successful learner, a confident individual, a responsible citizen and an effective contributor.<\/p>\n<p>The curriculum is designed on the basis of the following principles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Challenge and enjoyment<\/li>\n<li>Breadth<\/li>\n<li>Progression<\/li>\n<li>Depth<\/li>\n<li>Personalisation and choice<\/li>\n<li>Coherence<\/li>\n<li>Relevance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The eight curriculum areas are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Expressive arts<\/li>\n<li>Health and wellbeing<\/li>\n<li>Languages<\/li>\n<li>Mathematics<\/li>\n<li>Religious and moral education<\/li>\n<li>Sciences<\/li>\n<li>Social studies<\/li>\n<li>Technologies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of the ways achievement, success and positive pupil contributions are recognised are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Formative Comments and Staff Feedback<\/li>\n<li>Formative Assessment is used.<\/li>\n<li>Children are active in evaluating their performance.<\/li>\n<li>Self and peer assessment are used regularly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationscotland.gov.uk\/learningandteaching\/thecurriculum\/whatiscurriculumforexcellence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Curriculum for Excellence <\/a>\u00a0website\u00a0is a good source of up to date information about our Journey to Excellence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Curriculum for Excellence. The curriculum aims to help every learner develop knowledge, skills and attributes for learning, life and work, to enable each child or young person to be a successful learner, a confident individual, a responsible citizen and an effective contributor. The curriculum is designed on the basis of the following principles: Challenge &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/northronaldsay\/about-our-school\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our Curriculum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":935,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/northronaldsay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/northronaldsay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/northronaldsay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/northronaldsay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/935"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/northronaldsay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/northronaldsay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/northronaldsay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/northronaldsay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}