A non-fiction reading into writing transition project

• Our classroom assessment involves high quality interactions, based on thoughtful questions, careful listening and reflective responses.
• Staff talk and work together to share standards in and across school.

Languages; primary/secondary (second/third levels)

Curriculum for Excellence themes

Successful learners are able to:

• use literacy, communication and numeracy skills
• think creatively and independently
• learn independently and as part of a group
• make reasoned evaluations
• link and apply different kinds of learning in new situations.

Confident individuals are able to:

• relate to others and manage themselves
• be self-aware.

Responsible citizens are able to:

• make informed choices and decisions
• evaluate environmental, scientific and technological issues
• develop informed, ethical views of complex issues.

Effective contributors are able to:

• communicate in different ways and in different settings
• work in partnership and in teams
• take the initiative and lead
• create and develop
• solve problems.

Other links to Curriculm for Excellence

Principles for curriculum design: challenge and enjoyment, personalisation and choice, coherence, relevance

Contexts for learning: the ethos and life of the school, interdisciplinary projects and studies

Published May 2009

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