Curriculum for Excellence
Curriculum for Excellence aims to give your child the best opportunity to realise their potential for a successful future. To give every child skills for life long learning.
Our Aim
We aim for all our children to become:
· Confident Individuals
· Effective Contributors
· Responsible Citizens
· Successful Learners
We aim to support children to understand the world in which they are living in, to reach their highest possible attribute and equip them with the skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work. Children will have opportunity in a rich learning environment to experience the outcomes within the 8 curricular areas. These are;
· Health and Wellbeing
· Numeracy
· Science
· Religious and Moral Education
· Early Literacy
· Mathematics
· Technologies
· Expressive Arts
Your child will have the opportunity for:
· A broad range of learning experiences
· Challenging and enjoyable learning
· Continuous progression from nursery to primary and to secondary school
· A variety of thinking and learning styles
They will be able to:
· Take responsibility for their learning
· Transfer skills between various aspects of learning
· Understand the impact and benefit of life long learning
· Make informed choices and decisions
· Ask questions
· Evaluate their own learning and plan their next steps
· Access resources to support their learning
· Demonstrate to one another skills and talents
How will our children benefit?
Every child in Scotland is entitled to experience a broad general education.
Curriculum for Excellence applies to all children from their earliest contact with the education service until they leave school. It applies in all educational establishments where children learn: nursery, schools, colleges and university and any other service working in partnership with education.
How will the parents/carers benefit?
‘Parents as Partners’ – your specialist expertise and knowledge of your child will benefit them greatly in their life of learning. You can continue to support this through their curriculum by contributing to the following:
- By attending our Parents Curricular Evenings
- By becoming involved in our ‘Parents as Partners’ programme
- By consultation with your child – ask them ‘what have you learned today’?
- Offer to take part in playroom visits
- Offer to get involved in nursery events
