All You Ever Wanted To Know About 5-14...
This Guideline has been developed by The Learning Centre to help teachers who are working with the Scottish 5-14 Curriculum. It is designed as a mapping document that helps users gain an overview of the structure, as well as being a reference tool that aims to simplify the Curriculum in a user friendly format.
The main body of the document covers the six Curriculum Areas. The structure is presented as a series of hierarchical diagrams down to the level of the individual Strands. It can be used as a reference booklet or as a display with groups of pages fitting together to form the separate Curriculum Areas of Environmental Studies, Language, ICT, Expressive Arts, Mathematics and RME/PSD/HE.
This Guideline document is designed to make life easier for teachers. If you have any comments or ideas on how it could be improved then please contact us at info@thelearningcentre.org.
The whole curriculum has been divided up into the six Curricular Areas of Environmental Studies, Language, Information and Communications Technology, Expressive Arts, Mathematics, and R&ME with PSD & HE (Religious & Moral Education with Personal and Social Development & Health Education).
Some of the Curricular Areas are made up of more than one Component. For example, the Language Curriculum Area is split up into the two Components of Modern Languages and English Language. Environmental Studies is divided into the three Components of Science, Social Subjects and Technology.
The Curriculum Area of Mathematics is not subdivided into Components.
The
various Components (and in the case of Mathematics, the Curriculum
Area) have been further divided into specialist areas known as
Attainment Outcomes. In Environmental Studies the four Attainment
Outcomes are People in the past,
People and place, People in society and Skills in social subjects.
The subject content within each of these Attainment Outcomes is arranged into themes, known as Strands. The Strands can be: key pieces of knowledge, areas of understanding, components of skills, or attitudes which are regarded as essential or valuable to develop and to allow the child's learning to progress.
In The Curriculum Area of Environmental Studies, the Component Social Subjects, the Attainment Outcome People in the past, is divided into four Strands. These are: People, Events & societies of significance, Change and continuity, Time and historical sequence, Nature of historical evidence.
For each of these strands, there is a set of Attainment Targets, which are designed to ensure a progression of knowledge and skills. These Attainment Targets begin at Level A and progress through Levels B to F.
Although
all children are individuals and will progress through Levels A-F at
different rates in different areas of the 5-14 Curriculum, a general
description of when each level should normally be attained by most
children can be found by following these links to the NGFL website:
- The 5-14 Curriculum is the body of knowledge, skills and attitudes that education experts have identified as being appropriate to the education of pupils aged 5-14;
- The 5-14 Curriculum is split into six Curricular Areas;
- Some Curricular Areas are further split into components, e.g., Language is split into 'Modern
- Each Curricular Area is divided into a number of Attainment Outcomes;
- Each Attainment Outcome is divided into a number of Strands;
- Each Strand has a number of Attainment Targets which indicate what is to be attained to ensure progression from Level A through to Level F.
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