What is Curriculum for Excellence?
About the 3 - 18 curriculum
Curriculum for Excellence is Scotland's curriculum for children and young people aged 3-18.
It's an approach designed to provide young people with the knowledge, skills and attributes they need for learning, life and work in the 21st century.
It aims to enable every child or young person to be a:
- Successful learner
- Confident individual
- Responsible citizen
- Effective contributor.
Levels and Stages
The curriculum is broken into two broad stages:
- a broad general education, providing a rounded education from the early years until the end of S3
- a senior phase, which will include studying for qualifications (from S4-S6).
The broad general education is divided into five curriculum levels (Early, First, Second, Third and Fourth) across eight curriculum areas.
Curriculum Areas
There are 8 curriculum areas across the broad general education and can be seen to the left.
(please note that Languages, includes Literacy and English)
To see the Experiences and Outcomes for each curriculum area, including the experiences and outcomes for Healths and Wellbeing Across Learning, click on the relevant link below.
NB: All information on this page has been taken from Education Scotland. Follow the link below for more information.