Curriculum for Excellence
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Sciences

All curriculum areas contribute to the totality of the experiences that make up the new curriculum. To find out more, read the curriculum overview.

Please note that within sciences, the experience and outcome codes that begin 'HWB' have been updated since publication on 2 April.

Principles and practice

Essential reading for practitioners as they begin, and then develop, their work with the statements of experiences and outcomes for the sciences.

Experiences and outcomes

Download all the experiences and outcomes for science:

Explore the experiences and outcomes online

Read the introductory statements for sciences and browse quickly and easily to specific sets of experiences and outcomes.

You can also create and save your own personalised groups of outcomes for planning use.

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Responsibility of all

It is the responsibility of all staff to develop, reinforce and extend learning in:

Getting started

Use this PowerPoint to familiarise yourself with the sciences experiences and outcomes.

Support materials for sciences

Find out how practitioners are working with the new curriculum in sciences through these great examples of emerging practice.

Concept development in the sciences

Find planning materials for the development of learners' scientific knowledge, understanding and skills.

Sharing practice

Science - Working together for active learning

On 4 November 2008, a Good Practice conference was held to coincide with the launch of the HMIE publication 'Science – A portrait of current practice in Scottish Schools'.