Curriculum for Excellence enables all young people to become confident individuals, effective contributors, responsible citizens and successful learners. There are 8 main areas of learning within the Curriculum for Excellence.:

Health and Wellbeing

• understanding, expressing and managing feelings
• confidence and sense of worth
• making friends and getting on with other children
• learning to look after themselves, making choices, knowing who to ask for help
• caring for other people and for their environment
• enjoying daily opportunities to participate in different kinds of energetic play, both indoors and outdoors
• knowing that being active is a healthy way to be
• developing a range of physical skills, e.g. running, climbing, throwing and catching
• developing a range of finer skills e.g. cutting, fastening and threading.

Literacy and English

• improving listening and talking skills in a range of situations
• listening to and enjoying discussing stories, characters, rhymes and other texts
• exploring and playing with sound, rhyme, letters and words
• developing an awareness that print has a meaning
• experimenting with writing through drawings, symbols and letters

Numeracy and Mathematics

• exploring numbers, understanding they represent amounts, using them to count and put them in order
• exploring patterns and sequences
• developing an awareness of how money is used and recognise some coins
• developing an awareness of time through daily routines and seasons
• experimenting with everyday items to measure and compare sizes and amounts
• investigating a range of 2D and 3D shapes
• making decisions about sorting and grouping objects.

Social Studies

• learning about people in the past from a range of evidence e.g. books, photographs and visits
• learning about people and places in the local area e.g. visits, roles of diffrent people in the community, local shops and services.

Technologies

• exploring the use of different materials
• designing and making things
• developing practical skills to work with a range of materials, tools and software e.g. computers, printers, remote control toys, cameras.

Science

• exploring, observing and discussing using all the senses
• developing an awareness of the natural world
• exploring different materials and thier uses
• exploring a range of effects through play e.g. floating and sinking, freezing and melting.

Expressive Arts

• painting, drawing, designing, modelling
• using voice, movement and expression in role play situations
• singing, using a range of musical instrumnets and music technology
• moving rhythmically and expressively and learning simple dances
• responding positively to their own and other’s work

Religious and Moral Education

• becoming aware of important Christian celebrations
• becoming aware of the importance of caring and sharing with others
• becoming aware of some Christian beliefs and symbols through stories and songs
• becoming aware of other religious festivals e.g. Chinese New Year, Ramadan.