Primary whole school planning

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
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.
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 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.
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.
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.