Early Years Conference

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Early Years Conference Curriculum for
Excellence Workshop 26/27 February 2008
Jacquie Ramsay Development Officer, Curriculum
for Excellence Jacquie.Ramsay_at_edinburgh.gov.uk
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Curriculum for Excellence in the Early Years
What is it?

• unified curriculum 3-18
• child at the centre
• focus on active learning and teaching approaches
• emphasis on development of skills
• focus on nursery- p1 transition

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Active learning and the four capacities

• Successful learners
• Through using imagination and creativity
• Developing important skills, including literacy
  and numeracy
• Confident individuals
• Through succeeding in activities and learning to
  recover from setbacks
• Responsible citizens
• Through learning to respect themselves and others
• Through taking part in making decisions
• Effective contributors
• Through playing together in leading or supporting
  roles
• Through taking part in sustained talking and
  thinking

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Organising learning

• Organising learning through curriculum areas - to
  provide breadth
• Health and wellbeing
• Languages
• Mathematics
• Science
• Social studies
• Expressive arts
• Technologies
• Religious and moral education

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Cross-curricular priorities

• Numeracy
• Literacy
• Key aspects of health and wellbeing
• Cross-cutting themes
• Citizenship
• Enterprise
• Creativity
• Sustainable development

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Group discussion

• Share examples of active learning through the
  four capacities
• Share examples of effective transition from
  nursery p1
• Traffic light your understanding of CfE
• green
• amber
• Red