What is Curriculum for Excellence?
Last updated | 06/10/2010
Curriculum for Excellence is designed to improve
education for children and young people by putting their learning
experiences at the heart of education and some important changes of
emphasis will refresh learning and teaching. Key factors
are:
- The new Curriculum 3 - 18 will ensure continuity in each
child's learning
- Children are at the centre of teaching and learning
- Literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing will be delivered
across learning and will be the responsibility of all
- Six curricular levels or stages set out the learning
progression clearly for each child from 3 - 18 years
- There are eight curricular areas: languages (English,
Gaelic, classical and modern languages), mathematics, health
and wellbeing, expressive arts, religious and moral
education, sciences, social studies and
technologies.
- Each curricular area contains a series of experiences and outcomes which describe
children's learning and achievements from a pupil
perspective. These take the form of 'I can...' or 'I am able
to...'
