Learning, teaching and assessment

Curriculum areas

Details of all eight curriculum areas, including the principles and practice for each area, guidance to get started, links to the experiences and outcomes and information about National Qualifications.

• Expressive arts
• Health and wellbeing
• Languages
• Mathematics
• Religious and moral education
• Sciences
• Social studies
• Technologies

Learning across the curriculum

• Health and wellbeing across learning
• Literacy across learning
• Numeracy across learning
• Global citizenship
• Enterprise in education

Assessment

Assessment involves gathering, reflecting on and evaluating evidence of learning to enable staff to check on learners' progress and support further learning.

• Framework for Assessment
• National Assessment Resource
• Profiling
• Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy (SSLN)

Approaches to learning

• Outdoor learning

  

  Find inspiration and support for delivering the curriculum through outdoor learning.

• Active learning

  

  Active learning is learning which engages and challenges children's thinking using real-life and imaginary situations. Find out more.

• Co-operative and collaborative learning

  

  Learning is frequently most effective when learners have the opportunity to think and talk together, to discuss ideas, analyse and solve problems, without constant teacher mediation.