Curriculum for Excellence

Support for staff

Exemplification of Curriculum for Excellence

The case studies in this section provide staff with exemplars of how some schools in Scotland have started to implement the modern languages experiences and outcomes under Curriculum for Excellence.

Within each of these studies you can find innovative teaching methods, video clips of good practice and numerous support materials for your own use.

These are by no means prescriptive teaching models for the curriculum but are provided to offer you inspiring illustrations of innovative practices that are already being used in Scottish schools today.

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Clarifying the learning: Sharing the standard

To deepen the understanding of what young people are expected to learn by raising awareness of other languages frameworks (in this case CEFR and Languages Ladder).

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Working together to develop cultural awareness and multilingualism

This Comenius project provided opportunities for Sir E Scott School to work in partnership and communicate in French, English, Gaidhlig and Breton.

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Partnership working in modern languages using collaborative learning and ICT

St Margaret's High School, North Lanarkshire has developed partnership with a school in Majorca as a context for developing the Curriculum for Excellence capacities and for making learning more relevant.

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Using collaborative learning and peer mentoring to improve transition

This project uses a selection of videos to show how St Thomas of Aquins High School, Edinburgh and its associated primary schools collaborate to ensure a smooth and coherent transition from P7 to S1.