Curriculum

The Curriculum in Scotland

Scotland’s curriculum – Curriculum for Excellence helps our children and young people gain the knowledge, skills and attributes needed for life in the 21st Century.

Curriculum for Excellence places learners at the heart of education. At its centre are four fundamental capacities. These capacities reflect and recognise the lifelong nature of education and learning. The four capacities are aimed at helping children and young people to become:

Successful learners - Confident individuals - Responsible citizens - Effective contributors

There are eight curriculum areas: expressive arts, health and wellbeing (HWB), languages, mathematics, religious and moral education (RME), 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’.

Below is how we engage learners in some of these areas at Greenwards.