A Curriculum for Excellence
The Banchory Beacon
A Curriculum for Excellence
The Banchory Beacon
Curriclum for Excellence
Scotland’s curriculum, Curriculum for Excellence, places learners at the heart of education. At its centre are four fundamental capacities (Successful Learners, Confident Individuals, Responsible Citizens and Effective Contributors). These capacities reflect and recognise the lifelong nature of education and learning.
• They recognise the need for all children and young people to know themselves as individuals and to develop their relationships with others, in families and in communities.
• They recognise the knowledge, skills and attributes that children and young people need to acquire to thrive in our interconnected, digital and rapidly changing world.
• They enable children and young people to be democratic citizens and active shapers of that world.
As part of their learner journey, all children in Scotland are entitled to experience a coherent curriculum from 3 to 18, in order that they have opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to adapt, think critically and flourish in today’s world.
'Curriculum' is defined as the totality of all that is planned for children and young people from early learning and childcare, through school and beyond. That totality can be planned for and experienced by learners across four contexts:
Curriculum areas and subjects
Interdisciplinary learning
Ethos and life of the school
Opportunities for personal achievement
There are eight curriculum areas: Expressive arts, Health and wellbeing, Languages (including English, and modern languages), Mathematics, Religious and moral education, Sciences, Social studies, and Technologies.
Literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing are recognised as being particularly important – these areas are seen as being the ‘responsibility of all’ staff.