Curriculum Matters
School curriculum
Scotland’s curriculum – Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) – helps our children and young people gain the knowledge, skills and attributes needed for life in the 21st century.
Curriculum for Excellence places learners at the heart of education. At its centre are four fundamental capacities. These capacities reflect and recognise the lifelong nature of education and learning. The four capacities are aimed at helping children and young people to become:
- Successful learners
- Confident individuals
- Responsible citizens
- Effective contributors
The National Improvement Framework, updated annually, sets out the vision and priorities for Scottish education that have been agreed across the system, and the national improvement activity that needs to be undertaken to deliver those key priorities.
Crucially, it sets out a clear vision for Scottish Education:
- Excellence through raising attainment and improving outcomes: ensuring that every child and young person achieves the highest standards in literacy and numeracy, as well as the knowledge and skills necessary to shape their future as successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens, and effective contributors
- Achieving equity: ensuring every child and young person has the same opportunity to succeed, no matter their background or shared protected characteristics, with a particular focus on closing the poverty related attainment gap
The Key priorities of the National Improvement Framework are:
- Placing the human rights and needs of every child and young person at the centre of education
- Improvement in children and young people’s health and wellbeing
- Closing the attainment gap between the most and least disadvantaged children and young people
- Improvement in skills and sustained, positive school-leaver destinations for all young people
- Improvement in attainment, particularly in literacy and numeracy
Curriculum for Excellence
Curriculum for Excellence – further information for parents/carers is available on the following websites:
- Education Scotland – https://education.gov.scot/
- Parent toolkit Scotland – https://education.gov.scot/improvement/par2engagingparentstoolkit
- European Literacy Policy Network – http://www.eblida.org/news/elinet.html
- Generation Working together – http://generationsworkingtogether.org/about/local-authority-guidelines/
- Local Authority Websites – http://www.cosla.gov.uk/councils
- National Improvement Hub – https://education.gov.scot/improvement/
- Parentzone Scotland website – https://education.gov.scot/parentzone/
- Read/Write/Count – http://www.readwritecount.scot/
- Parent Club – http://www.parentclub.scot/
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