Curriculum for Excellence spans learning from 3-18 years.  Its aims are to improve our children’s life chances, to nurture successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors, and responsible citizens, building on Scotland’s reputation for great education. 
  
It develops skills for learning, life and work, bringing real life into the classroom, making learning relevant and helping young people apply lessons to their life beyond the classroom.  It links knowledge in one subject area to another helping make connections in their learning.  It develops skills which can enable children to think for themselves, make sound judgements, challenge, enquire and find solutions.   
  
Curriculum for Excellence balances the importance of knowledge and skills.  Every child is entitled to a broad and deep general education, whatever their level and ability.  All teachers are responsible for the development of literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing. 
 
There is an entitlement to personal support to help young people fulfil their potential and make the most of their opportunities with additional support wherever that’s needed.  There will be a new emphasis by all staff on looking after our children’s health and wellbeing – to ensure that the school is a place where children feel safe and secure. 
  
Please contact the Head Teacher if you would like any further information about the curriculum within our new school and nursery.    

The Curriculum  

Our School Improvement Plan, produced annually, identifies priorities and outlines aims, tasks and the expected positive impact these priorities will have in our pupils’ attainment and achievement (Details of all the current School Improvement Priorities are in Section 8 of this handbook). 
  
Curriculum for Excellence is one of the most ambitious programmes of educational change ever undertaken in Scotland. For the first time, we are focusing on what the Scottish education system should be delivering for children and young people from ages 3 to 18. The aims of Curriculum for Excellence are that every child and young person should: 

• know they are valued and will be supported to become a successful learner, an effective contributor, a confident individual and a responsible citizen 
• experience a traditionally broad Scottish curriculum that develops skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work, with a sustained focus on literacy and numeracy, that encourages an active, healthy and environmentally sustainable lifestyle and builds an appreciation of Scotland and its place in the world (Building The Curriculum 3)