Latest news and information about A Curriculum for Excellence
Major changes are happening in Scotland’s schools. Under the banner of A Curriculum for Excellence the Government aims to ensure that wherever learning takes place it reflects and meets the needs of all pupils. PINS keeps you up to date.
NEW - Curriculum for Excellence folders
PINS has a small number of the full folders with hard copy of all the experiences and outcomes and associated posters that help you see the material at a glance. Available to voluntary sector projects. Please email: info@pinscotland.org for more.
NEW - Building the curriculum 5: A framework for assessment
The Framework provides guidance on how the new assessment system will raise standards and expectations, promote depth of understanding and improve skills. Learning and Teaching Scotland will be organising events January and February to promote greater understanding; in the summer term assessment exemplars will be made available through the Curriculum for Excellence website, they will show pupils’ work assessed by practitioners against standards and expectations in the priority areas of literacy and numeracy across all curriculum areas and health and wellbeing; teaching staff will have access to a new online National Assessment Resource in the Autumn. The relevant documents can also be viewed on the Curriculum for Excellence website.
For more go HERE
To understand the importance of A Curriculum for Excellence
And to find out more about the content of the guidance go HERE
Every child and young person is entitled to experience a broad general education.
Further information on all learner entitlements can be found in Building the Curriculum 3. Take me to this resource HERE
Research on the consultation on the next generation of National Qualifications in Scotland
A Curriculum for Excellence is also influencing what happens after S3. This document summaries the research about the next generation of National Qualifications. Take me to this report HERE
NEW - Children, Their World, Their Education
Edited by Robin Alexander, 2009. This book contains the final report and recommendations of the expansive Cambridge Primary Review, “the most comprehensive enquiry into English primary education for 40 years.”
Read about or order this book HERE
Publication of Building the Curriculum 4 paper: skills for learning, life and work
4 Nov 2009, LTS. This new guidance is now available online. It is part of a series of Building the Curriculum papers and is intended to further support planning, design and delivery of the curriculum and it sets out skills for learning, life and work in Curriculum for Excellence and shows how they are embedded in the experiences and outcomes and the senior phase.
For full article go HERE
The Early Years Framework: Learning Together: Positive Start, Positive Outcomes
This HMIE report published 1 Oct 2009 follows up the 2008 Early Years Framework which aimed to tackle inequalities by focusing on early intervention. Including useful case studies, the report highlights current good practice in learning, inclusion and improved access to services for children and famillies, makes recommendations and promotes Curriculum for Excellence guidance.
View the report HERE