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Curriculum for Excellence

The Curriculum for Excellence focuses on nurturing confident individuals, successful learners, effective contributors, and responsible citizens from early nursery to P7. With eight key curriculum areas like Languages, Mathematics, and Health & Wellbeing, it emphasizes integrated learning like a jigsaw puzzle. It includes active literacy programs, book banding, and structured writing tasks to enhance reading, writing, and comprehension skills. Phonics, spelling, and writing are taught daily with a focus on core targets and spelling strategies. The curriculum also emphasizes phonics through a separate approach and teaches letter sounds and names, ensuring a strong foundation for future learning.

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Curriculum for Excellence

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  1. Curriculum for Excellence work towards a child becoming a confident individual/successful learner/effective contributor/responsible citizen Early – nursery to P1 First – P2 to P4 Second – P5 to P7

  2. 8 curriculum areas are: • Languages • Mathematics • Health & Wellbeing • Expressive Arts • Religious and moral education • Sciences • Social studies • Technologies

  3. Languages • Includes second language (French) • Reading/Writing/Talking/Listening • Spelling/Phonics – these aid reading and writing • All areas are like a jigsaw - integrated • North Lanarkshire Active Literacy Programme

  4. Reading • Book banding • Short guided reads – walkthrough • Common words and phonic words • Fiction/Non-fiction • Word Attack Strategies are taught • 2 books per week • Discuss pictures/text • Encourage them to “read” books • Written follow up tasks to asses comprehension and to develop written skills

  5. Writing • Daily writing linked to reading/spelling/phonemes • Huge push on formation at the start – bad habits already established • Website Doorway Online – great for showing correct formation and also ipad apps available • Pencil grip important – triangular pencil used initially • Some children – writing leads to frustration • Weekly taught writing covering different genres

  6. 6 Genres • Narrative (personal and imaginative writing) • Persuasive • Explanation • Report • Recount • Instructional

  7. Targets Core targets • Captial letter • Full stop • Finger spaces • Spelling

  8. Spelling • Spelling words introduced through a taught lesson • Short daily activities • Common words – linked to reading books/writing • Dictated sentences • Partner work/reciprocal teaching • Short weekly test/Bigger test approximately every 4 weeks. Real test – every day use • Spelling strategies taught • These words will be sent home for homework and ideas on how to learn them Very important that children know these words as they form the basis of the next 6 years at school.

  9. Phonics • Taught separately from common words as some common words don’t necessarily fit in with this approach • Letter sound/name taught initially • North Lanarkshire programme followed • Sound introduced through a song/story/picture • Magnetic board work – daily • Say Make/Break Blend Read Write

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