Email update December 2009
Welcome to the December 2009 e-update
Welcome to our regular email bulletin which brings you up to date with the latest resources available on the Curriculum for Excellence website, which have been designed to support practitioners as they begin to work with the new curriculum guidance.
Management Board papers
You may also be interested to view the latest Curriculum for Excellence Management Board papers that are now available online.
- S1 – S6 Progression 'A coherent learning experience'
- Management Board Paper 5.1: Communications and Engagement
- An updated Provisional Programme Framework, that outlines the timetable for national planning and implementation of Curriculum for Excellence from January 2009 to August 2016.
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Curriculum for Excellence Parent Toolkit
In January, a Curriculum for Excellence toolkit to support all practitioners as they engage with parents and carers will be launched. As implementation gets underway it will help all those who work with children and young people to deliver key information around Curriculum for Excellence and answer questions parents and carers may have about how it will affect their own child.
Toolkit materials will be available to download from the Curriculum for Excellence website and a number of supporting printed materials will also be produced.
You can watch the promotional trailer for the Curriculum for Excellence Parent Toolkit
1. Support for staff – exemplification of Curriculum for Excellence
Further support for staff is now available online in the sharing practice area of the website
Exemplification of good practice used in implementing the experiences and outcomes is now available on the Support for Staff area of the Curriculum for Excellence website in the following curriculum areas: Literacy and English, Modern Languages, Numeracy, Social Studies, Sciences and Technologies.
The case studies provide staff with exemplars of how some schools in Scotland have started to implement Curriculum for Excellence.
Planning for a broad general education
Planning for a broad general education in S1-S3 has been the focus of Ross High School’s task. The headteacher took part in the national Testing the Framework Programme and has produced proposals for change which are summarised in the accompanying documents. A particular aim is to move from the school’s current position on early presentation for national qualifications in S3, towards the national policy outlined in Building the Curriculum 3.
Planning an interdisciplinary study on China
A new case study from Glenlee Primary School, Burnbank, South Lanarkshire is now available online. The study looks at the development of Active Learning through an interdisciplinary project in Primary 7.
2. Further support for practitioners is now available in the following areas
Scotland’s History comes to life
Scotland's History Online, is an online resource developed for pupils, teachers and the wider public covers more than 200 topics that include links to over 1,000 other online sources and interactive supporting materials; the resource could be one of the best of its kind anywhere in the world.
16+ Learning Choices in action
A new set of video clips added to the sharing practice area of the website provide a strategic overview of 16+ Learning , an outline from Fife Council and its key partners of what implementation means for local planning and service delivery; and evidence of how the new approaches are impacting on young people making post-16 choices.
Experiences and outcomes by level
You can now download the experiences and outcomes divided by level as Word and PDF documents. Visit the Getting Started section of the website to access these documents.
3. Online Survey - help us improve the service that we provide to you
Learning and Teaching Scotland would like to learn more about your information needs and use of our websites. We would be grateful if you could take 5-10 minutes to answer the questions in this survey to help us improve the service that we provide to you.
4. Glow Meet - Alan Bissett – A Sort of Homecoming
Alan Bissett is returning to his and Adam Spark’s old school, Falkirk High, to speak to pupils about his books and you and your class can also be there with Glow.
A Glow Meet with Alan will be held in the Literacy and English National Glow Group on Thursday December 10th at 2pm.
Alan invites S4-S6 to join him to hear him read from his books and to ask him questions about his work.
It promises to be a great event both for pupils and staff as you get to watch, hear and question one of Scotland’s most versatile talents.
Please note you can now register your interest and post questions for Alan to answer on the Alan Bissett Glow page.
Find out more about Glowing Thursdays National Group.