Resources

5-14 Planning exemplars

These examples of planning are designed to assist teachers and school managers in planning work for the 5-14 curriculum.

Thinking about Curriculum for Excellence

Curriculum for Excellence will introduce eight refreshed and re-focused curriculum areas, and make space in the timetable for interdisciplinary projects and studies. Future planning will follow the principles underlying the new Curriculum for Excellence.

Although the current 5-14 curriculum will be with us for the immediate future, you can use the resources on this site with Curriculum for Excellence in mind. Use this short Reflection Guide to help you adapt resources in accordance with some of the principles and purposes of Curriculum for Excellence.

Word file: Curriculum for Excellence Reflection Guide (45KB)

Title	Description
Classroom planning: social subjects	Two planners for social subjects topics prepared and used by Richmond Park School in Glasgow, together with examples of pupils' work.
Cluster planning: environmental studies	An outline from West Lothian of a cluster approach to the People and Place strand 'using maps'.
Cluster planning: ICT	A report of the St Kentigern cluster's working party on ICT planning and assessment.
Cluster planning: science	These planning grids, developed by Lasswade High School Centre and its associated primary schools, determine possible ways of rearranging the P6/P7 and S1/S2 science syllabus to match the 5-14 science strands in knowledge and understanding and to show areas of common content.
Cognitive acceleration through science education	One school discusses how it has used and developed an intervention programme aimed at developing thinking skills in the context of science.
Drama in the primary school	Background material, sourced from Arts on the Move (www.artsonthemove.co.uk), for one-day 5-14 drama support courses for primary teachers run by South Lanarkshire Council.
Energy and forces	Topics developed within the Kirkland High School cluster which outline activities and assessment strategies.
ICT and environmental studies	A description of how ICT can contribute to learning in Environmental Studies together with an example of a topic on the rainforest showing how the ICT strands can be integrated and developed.
ICT and mathematics	A description of how ICT can contribute to learning in mathematics together with a table outlining links between the ICT strands and Level D maths.
ICT and writing strands	A series of tables correlating levels of attainment in English language writing with equivalent ICT word processing skills.
ICT programme of study	Activities taken from the recently published levels A and B of the Dumfries and Galloway programme that will assist schools to implement the revised national ICT guidelines. More information about this material and its availability can be had from ICTSU, Dumfries and Galloway Council.
ICT skills checklist	The following checklist of ICT skills has been developed by Prospect Bank School, Edinburgh to assist in the planning and recording of children's progression through the basic ICT skills. Prospect Bank School is a school for primary age children who have moderate/complex special educational needs.
ICT Skills development programme	An ICT skills programme developed in West Lothian which is intended to set out a progressive development of skills. All the strands of the 5-14 Guidelines are covered, and appropriate activities are suggested for each level. It is set out on a class basis to ensure that students continually build on their skills base.
ICT strands in Mathematics	This selection of documents is taken from a CD ROM produced by Midlothian Council, to support mathematics through ICT, and distributed to its schools. This is one of a series of CD ROMS offering ICT support for curricular areas. The materials cover Levels A, C and D . There is also information on the use of particular software packages such as Clicker.
Introducing a new science programme	An example showing how Midlothian Council has arranged the introduction of the Thinking Science programme into the first two year-groups of the secondary schools in the area.
Lower primary topic planner: day and night	A planner focusing on the topic 'Day and Night' produced by Linlithgow Primary School. The general planning format is based on developmental work by the West Lothian Council 5-14 Science and Technology team.
Middle primary topic planner: my body	A planner focusing on the topic 'My body' produced by Linlithgow Primary School. The planning format is based on developmental work by the West Lothian Council 5-14 Science and Technology team.
People in the past audit planning tools	Planning tools from Nairn Academy (Highland) outlining an audit of S1 and S2 units for coverage of eras and strands in people in the past.
Perth & Kinross drama materials	Perth and Kinross Council's staff development provision for primary school staff includes considering drama as an important means of learning across the curriculum. These excerpts include: examples of a number of drama games that can be used to help children develop their listening skills. a short sheet of definitions of some of the main conventions relevant to drama in primary education produced by Perth and Kinross Council. a grid for planning a drama curriculum at Level A.
Planning: S2 German	This is a short-term plan for S2 German classes at a large, inner-city secondary school in Aberdeen. The course used is Auf Deutsch.
Primary ICT policy	An example of a whole school ICT policy from a primary school in Glasgow.
Primary whole school planning: environmental studies	A programme for Environmental Studies themes prepared by Haddington Infant School, East Lothian.
Primary whole school planning: technology	Policy development and planning for Technology 5-14: a description of the technology developments in North Queensferry Primary School (Fife).
Recording ICT progress	Examples of systems used by Midlothian to record levels of attainment in ICT. These include an audit of current skills in their schools, a example of a pupil record sheet for Level D ICT, an example of a forward planner for developing ICT skills at Level A, and a table indicating attainment targets in ICT.
S1 French	This is the long-term plan for S1 French classes at a large, inner-city secondary school in Aberdeen. The course used is 'Spirale 1'.
Social subjects topic planner	A blank topic planner prepared by Renfrewshire Council to assist teachers in the planning of their social subjects themes.
Strategic planning: science	Excerpts are from the report of the a conference entitled 'Standards and Quality in the Sciences' held in June 2002. They contain the background to the conference, reports from working groups who were looking at science within the P7 to S2 range, and possible action that might ensue.
Strategic planning: structure and balance	Two documents published by Dundee City Council to indicate the council's 5-14 strategy in the light of the revised report 'The Structure and Balance of the Curriculum'.
Structure and balance	This is a table prepared by Gylemuir Primary School, Edinburgh which contains a comparison of the Performance Indicators of the first version of the above document and the Quality Indicators from the 2002 version. A link to the complete 'How Good is our School?' document in HTML format is also included.
Technology in S1/S2: Consultation Seminar	The following materials are composed of presentations, questions raised and some early discussion findings arising from the above seminar, which was held in Dundee in March 2002.
Upper primary topic planners	Planners focusing on the topics 'Earth's Materials' and electricity produced by Linlithgow Primary School. The general planning format is based on developmental work of West Lothian Council 5-14 Science and Technology team.