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Supporting primary and lower secondary education

Find materials for your subject

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Thinking about Curriculum for Excellence

Curriculum for Excellence, will develop a streamlined curriculum for 3-18-year-olds and implement new approaches to assessment. How will this change the way you teach?

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Illustrations and photos

Looking for educational images? Our royalty-free illustrations include images of seasons and the environment, the human body, numbers, signs, people from history and many more - all free for educational use.

Photograph of two early secondary-age girls working together on creating a windmill-type of structure from plastic rods and shapes

Sharing practice

Learn from other teachers' experiences with these examples of classroom practice, and adapt their successes for your lessons.

Problem solving and enquiry

Examples of how schools are developing whole-school strategies for teaching problem solving. The site also includes lessons, classroom activities and resources.

What's new

Looked after children and young people

Information, news, resources and discussion for people working with looked after children and young people, and care leavers.

Confucius Classrooms

Online support for learning about Chinese language and culture - resources, practice and Glow group.

5-14 Guidelines

Read the 5-14 National Guidelines