CfE News

Coming soon: Scotland’s history website

Support for all

All practitioners now have responsibility for aspects of health and wellbeing, literacy and numeracy. The Responsibility of all section of the Curriculum for Excellence website will give you more information about these areas.

Schools and youth work - Bridging the gap

Find information about the publication 'Bridging the Gap: Improving Outcomes for Scotland’s Young People through School and Youth Work Partnerships', which celebrates the range of school and youth work partnerships in Scotland.

Building your curriculum

Being able to envisage how the curriculum as a whole will fit together is crucial for implementing Curriculum for Excellence. To help schools and practitioners develop phased plans to achieve this, materials are now available within a new area of the Curriculum for Excellence website entitled ‘Building your Curriculum’.

Giving young people a voice

Pupil voice, a key aspect of 'Building Your Curriculum' is the consultative aspect of pupil participation and consultation. Three new movie clips on the Curriculum for Excellence website explore things that matter in school and what pupils and students want from their education.

Bringing the experiences and outcomes to life

A wealth of information, support and advice is available on the Curriculum for Excellence website and Glow.

Making the transition

Find other examples of how practitioners have moved beyond reading and thinking about the experiences and outcomes and 'Building the Curriculum 3' to actually putting them into practice.

The exchange

Download the full text from the conversation between Kay Dickson and Andy Johnstone.

 PDF file: The exchange (22 KB)

Stages of learning: Senior phase

Advice on designing a curriculum framework using the principles of curriculum design at the senior phase.

Assessment update

The development of the future assessment framework is now underway.