Curriculum for Excellence

The guidance: Building the Curriculum

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Building the Curriculum 4: Skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work

Building the Curriculum 4 provides further support planning, design and delivery of the curriculum in pre-school centres, schools and colleges.

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Building the Curriculum 3: A framework for learning and teaching

This document outlines important messages for those involved in planning the curriculum. It builds on A Curriculum for Excellence: Progress and Proposals, provides guidance on a new framework and sets out considerations which are critical to the adoption of Curriculum for Excellence.

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Building the Curriculum 2: Active learning in the early years

'Building the Curriculum 2' focuses on practical ways to introduce a more active approach to learning and teaching in early years. It looks at how active learning can encourage effective continuity and progression for all children across all settings.

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Building the Curriculum 1: The contribution of curriculum areas

This is the first in this series of documents designed to support planning for the curriculum. Published in 2006, it focuses on the curriculum areas and their contributions to developing the four capacities of children and young people.

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Purposes and aims: improving learning

Curriculum for Excellence aims to introduce a coherent, more flexible and enriched curriculum for Scottish education from 3 to 18, centred around the learners and enabling them to develop the four capacities.