Social studies

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 social studies, 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 social studies.

Download all the experiences and outcomes for Social studies:

Read the introductory statements for social studies 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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It is the responsibility of all staff to develop, reinforce and extend learning in:

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

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