Iain Ramsay

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Curriculum for Excellence
Iain Ramsay
Health and Wellbeing Team LeaderLearning and
Teaching Scotland
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• ASSIST
• The Final Frontier Conference 2008
• Live Long and Prosper

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Whats it all about?

• Maximising the economic potential of all young
  people to compete in global economy
• Addressing under achievement especially among
  those from disadvantaged socio-economic
  backgrounds
• Placing higher priority on skills for learning,
  life and work
• Introducing greater flexibility and innovation
  into the education system

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and making Scotland

• Smarter
• Safer and Stronger
• Wealthier and fairer
• Healthier
• Greener

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Key features

• Coherent and more flexible curriculum 3-18
• Designed to develop the four capacities
• Focus on outcomes rather than inputs
• Focus on the needs of the child
• Integrated approach - schools working in
  partnerships with other agencies

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• Health at the Heart of Learning
• From health promoting schools, Being Well
  Doing Well, the 5 -14 Health Education
  curriculum, award schemes
• To embedding health and wellbeing in
  Curriculum for Excellence

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Supported in 2008 by

• Schools (Health Promotion and Nutrition
  (Scotland) Act 2007
• Health Promotion Guidance for Local Authorities
  and Schools (May 2008) Draft Cover Paper Health
  and Wellbeing for all
• Health and Wellbeing Curriculum Draft
  experiences and outcomes (May 2008)
• Healthy Eating, Active Living Action Plan
  (2008-11)
• CfE Building the Curriculum 3 (July 2008)

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Health and Wellbeing is

• A whole school issue
• Everyones responsibility
• About being well to do well
• Engagement, achievement, attainment
• Health enhancing ethos
• About partnerships and relevance to young people
  and communities

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Curriculum areas

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

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Health and wellbeing organisers

• mental, emotional, social and physical health
• planning for choices and changes
• physical education, physical activity and sport
• food and health
• substance misuse
• relationships, sexual health and parenthood
• early, first, second, third and fourth

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Whats happening with HWB experiences and
outcomes now?

• launch events and trialling 6 Authorities
• Engagement and consultation
• Formative feedback by end of November 08
• Building the Curriculum 3
• Development of SCQF levels 4 5
• Rewrite/ alter prior to publishing early 2009

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Opportunities for engagement

• Trialling-6 Authorities
• Opportunity to engage and feed in
• Online questionnaires trialling, and general
• Focus groups
• Launches and engagement
• CPD

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• Curriculum for Excellence website
• www.curriculumforexcellencescotland.gov.uk
• - Act Guidance, Cover paper, Experiences
  outcomes
• - case studies
• - support documents
• - CPD www.ltscotland.org.uk/cpdscotland/cpdfi
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• Online Trialling Communities
• Advice and support
• National Events (Scottish Learning Festival 2008,
  
• 24 and 25 September, SECC

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Live Long and Prosper
Iain RamsayHealth and Wellbeing Team
LeaderLearning and Teaching Scotland