Key documents

This area provides links to key documents in the development of Curriculum for Excellence.

Curriculum for Excellence

Letter to all Directors of Education: Support for Curriculum for Excellence 2011/12
Letter from Bill Maxwell to all Directors of Education outlining support for Curriculum for Excellence for 2011/12.
Curriculum for Excellence Implementation - Questions and answers - October 2011
Questions and answers offering responses to some key issues around the implementation of Curriculum for Excellence, focusing predominantly on the secondary sector but also includes issues of relevance to the primary sector and colleges.
Curriculum for Excellence - Action Plan 2011- 2012
Scottish Government Action Plan detailing the key areas for supporting the implementation of Curriculum for Excellence for 2011 - 2012.
Assessment for Curriculum for Excellence: strategic vision and key principles
This statement from September 2009 detailed the Scottish Government’s strategy on how to build on our existing strong foundations of effective approaches to assessment.
A Curriculum for Excellence: Progress and proposals
This 2006 document included an outline timetable and more detail on the results of the review process to that point.
A Curriculum for Excellence: Ministerial Response
This document outlined a programme of work to make the changes recommended by the Curriculum Review Group.
A Curriculum for Excellence: The Curriculum Review Group
This report from November 2004 established the values, purposes and principles of the proposed 3-18 curriculum.

Building the Curriculum series
The Building the Curriculum series of documents provides advice, guidance and policy for different aspects of Curriculum for Excellence.

Research publications
Academic research reports relating to Curriculum for Excellence.

Management Board minutes and papers
Records of meetings of the Curriculum for Excellence Management Board and copies of occasional papers considered by the Board.