Our Curriculum
Our Curriculum
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Our Learning, Teaching and Assessment is based on the principles and designs of Curriculum for Excellence.
Curriculum for Excellence is intended to help children and young people gain the knowledge, skills and attributes needed for life in the 21st century, including skills for learning, life and work.
Its purpose is often summed up as helping children and young people to become:
Successful learners
Confident individuals
Responsible citizens
Effective contributors
These are referred to as the four capacities.
Curriculum for Excellence is designed to achieve a transformation in education in Scotland by providing a coherent, more flexible and enriched curriculum from 3 to 18. The term curriculum is understood to mean everything that is planned for children and young people throughout their education, not just what happens in the classroom.
Curriculum for Excellence includes four contexts for learning:
Curriculum areas and subjects
Interdisciplinary learning
Ethos and life of the school
Opportunities for personal achievement
Stages
Stages
The curriculum has two stages: the broad general education (from the early years to the end of S3) and the senior phase (S4 to S6). The broad general education has five levels (early, first, second, third and fourth). The senior phase is designed to build on the experiences and outcomes of the broad general education, and to allow young people to take qualifications and courses that suit their abilities and interests.
Principles
Principles
There are seven broad principles that practitioners take into consideration when planning children’s learning:
Challenge and enjoyment
Breadth
Progression
Depth
Personalisation and choice
Coherence
Relevance
Curriculum Areas
Curriculum Areas
There are eight curriculum areas:
Expressive Arts
Health & Wellbeing
Languages (including English and modern languages)
Mathematics
Religious and Moral Education
Sciences
Social Studies
Technologies
Literacy, Numeracy and Health & Wellbeing are recognised as being particularly important. These areas are seen as being the 'responsibility of all' staff.
Learn more about our approach to Literacy, Numeracy and Health & Wellbeing:
Learn more about our approach to Literacy, Numeracy and Health & Wellbeing:
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