Highland Curriculum for Excellence

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The Highland Council believes that A Curriculum for Excellence has profound implications for school communities. School, pre-school, and community staff, young people and parents have the opportunity to build on success and shape learning in Highland for the 21st century.

The Highland Curriculum for Excellence aims to support school and associated school group developments by informing, clarifying and provoking reflection.

All materials are available freely for use. We do, however, ask any user not working in a Highland Council ECS Centre to acknowledge this source.

Materials are organised around current Highland ECS priorities: learning and teaching; transition; achievement. There are additional portals to curricular architecture, literacy, numeracy, and health/wellbeing. These will be supplemented in due course.

What does ACE mean in Highland ?

ACE is a major opportunity – following meaningful consultation, school staff are being freed from curricular ‘clutter’ and overly rigid assessment requirements to develop exciting learning opportunities which will meet needs well into the century.
ACE builds on successful developments in L&T and formative assessment – affording pupils more choices at all stages in their learning, encouraging and supporting them to be more reflective, self aware, measuring their own progress and that of their friends.
ACE is a genuine 3-15 programme – promoting ‘seamless’ transitions from pre-school to primary, primary to secondary; equipping young people to make appropriate education, employment and training choices 16+.
ACE firmly places the four capacities and the learning needs of young people at the centre of the learning process – a centrality becoming increasingly evident in Highland schools.
ACE is about recognizing and celebrating lifelong learning in all its forms – not just because it happens in the classroom and/or leads to an SQA award – but also in homes and communities.