The teaching staff work alongside the children in order to cater the learning to their own individual needs. Children are involved in the initial planning of their IDL (Inter-disciplinary Learning), choosing their own learning intentions and helping to identify their success criteria. Regarding Literacy and Numeracy, the children are involved in identifying their next steps in order to further their learning as well as their success criteria in order to achieve these.
Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) is the Scottish National Curriculum which applies to all children and young people aged 3-18, wherever they are learning. It aims to raise achievement for all, enabling children and young people to develop the skills, knowledge and understanding they need to succeed in learning, life and work.
The Four Capacities – the curriculum aims for all children to become:
- Successful Learners
- Confident Individuals
- Responsible Citizens
- Effective Contributors
The Eight Curriculum areas are:
- Expressive Arts – including art and design, dance, drama and music
- Health and Wellbeing – mental, emotional, social and physical wellbeing; PE; food and health; substance misuse; and relationships, sexual health and parenthood
- Languages – listening and talking, reading and writing in English and modern languages, plus classical languages and literacy, and Gaidhlig/Gaelic learners (where available)
- Mathematics – including analysing information, solving problems and assessing risk
- Religious and Moral Education (denominational and non-denominational) – learning about Christianity, other world religions, and developing values and beliefs
- Sciences – understanding important scientific concepts across planet Earth, forces, electricity and waves, biological systems, materials and topical science
- Social Studies – understanding people, place and society in the past and present including history, geography, modern studies and business education
- Technologies – including computing science, food, textiles, craft, design, engineering, graphics and applied technologies
Additional important themes across the curriculum are creativity, enterprise and global citizenship, which include sustainable development, international education and citizenship.