Curriculum for Excellence
“Curriculum for Excellence has been introduced to raise standards of learning and teaching for all 3 to 18 year olds. It aims to help prepare children and young people with the knowledge and skills they need in a fast changing world.”
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We want young people to become:
- Successful learners
- Confident individuals
- Responsible citizens
- Effective Contributors
Successful Learners
Which means we:
- are interested in learning new things
- do the best we can
- think about new ideas
To help us do this we:
- use maths, language and talking and listening
- use technology
- can think of new ideas by ourselves
- learn by ourselves and in a group
- think about the good points and bad points of new ideas
- use all of these different things when learning new ideas
Confident individuals
which means we:
- have respect for ourselves
- are healthy and happy
- look forward to the future
To help us do this we:
- listen and try to understand others
- are healthy and active
- try to understand the world around us
- decide what is right and wrong
Responsible citizens
Which means we:
- have respect for other people
- take part in making decisions
To help us, we need to
- understand the world around us and Scotland’s place in it.
- understand different people from around the world.
- listen to different ideas and opinions before making decisions.
- think about issues in the world around us and develop views about them.
Effective contributors
by
- being enterprising and thinking of new ideas
- thinking up ideas for ourselves
We can:
- find different ways of telling people our ideas
- work with a partner and a bigger team.
- lead a group when working.
- take what we have learned and use it in a new situation
- solve problems
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