Learner entitlements

All children and young people are entitled to a curriculum that includes a range of features at the different stages.

In summary, children and young people are entitled to experience:

• a coherent curriculum from 3 to 18
• a broad general education, including the experiences and outcomes well planned across all the curriculum areas, from early years through to S3
• a senior phase of education after S3 which provides opportunity to obtain qualifications as well as to continue to develop the four capacities
• opportunities for developing skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work with a continuous focus on literacy, numeracy, and health and wellbeing
• personal support to enable them to gain as much as possible from the opportunities which Curriculum for Excellence can provide
• support in moving into positive and sustained destinations beyond school.

Schools and education establishments will use the entitlements, in conjunction with the experiences and outcomes, to plan curriculum programmes.