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Within our school, we aim to provide a curriculum that is both inclusive and ambitious for all – a curriculum which is both academically challenging as well as providing opportunities to develop skills for learning, life and work.
Our curriculum will be based around the four capacities of Curriculum for Excellence – to ensure our pupils are successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors, and responsible citizens.
Our curriculum will also reflect the principles of curriculum design to ensure breadth, depth, personalisation & choice, challenge & enjoyment, progression, coherence, and relevance. We will therefore, have a curriculum which we will adapt continuously over time to meet the needs of our pupils. Following the principles of Curriculum for Excellence, achievement of children and young people is celebrated in its broadest sense. This means looking beyond formally assessed learning, to recognise activities like volunteering and participation in arts, sports, and community-based programmes. This approach complements the nurturing and aspirational outcomes of Getting It Right for Every Child, and our aim in Aberdeenshire to overcome inequality by Raising Attainment for All, promoting Equity and Excellence in schools, and Closing the Gap.
Curricular Areas
• Literacy and English Language: Listening, Talking Reading, and Writing.
• Numeracy and Mathematics: Number, Money and Measure, Information Handling, Shape, Position and Movement.
• Health & Wellbeing: Mental, emotional, social, and physical wellbeing, Physical education, activity and sport, Food and health, Substance misuse, Relationships, sexual health and parenthood.
• Social Studies: People, past events and societies, People, place and environment, People, society, economy, and business.
• Sciences: Planet Earth, Forces, electricity and waves, Biological Systems, Materials, Topical Sciences.
• Technologies: Technological developments in society, Business technology skills and knowledge, Computing science, Food and textiles, Craft, design, engineering, and graphics.
• Expressive Arts: Music, Drama, Art and Design and Dance.
• Religious and Moral Education: Christianity, World Religions, Development of beliefs and values.
• Modern Languages: German & Makaton.
Curricular Levels
Early - The pre-school years and P1, or later for some.
First - To the end of P4, but earlier or later for some.
Second - To the end of P7, but earlier or later for some.
Third and Fourth - S1 to S3, but earlier for some.
The fourth level broadly equates to Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework level 4. The fourth level experiences and outcomes are intended to provide possibilities for choice and young people's programmes will not include all the fourth level outcomes.
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