Transcript A Curriculum for Excellence Outcomes and Experiences

A Focus on Health and
Wellbeing
Wendy Halliday
Learning and Teaching Scotland
Promoting Health and Wellbeing
What does it mean to you?
A vision of health …
Mental and emotional health
Social health
Economic
Environment
Physical health
Culture
Sexual health
Spiritual health
The Scottish Government’s vision for
children and young people is “A Scotland in
which every child matters, where every
child, regardless of his or her family
background, has the best possible start in
life.”
The Curriculum Review Group
The Journey so far ….
Success
Partnership approach
Policy
Aspiration - legislation
Initiative – core business
Key developments along the way
• Ministerial Target 2007
• Being Well Doing Well
• Self Evaluation Guidance
• A Journey to Excellence
• Curriculum for Excellence
A Journey to Excellence
Develops a culture of
ambition, achievement,
enterprise and inclusion
Promotes
well-being
and respect
Values and
empowers its
staff
Reflects on
its own work
while thriving
on different
contributions
Successful
learners
Confident
individuals
Effective
contributors
Responsible
citizens
Makes decisions along
with pupils, parents and
staff who share the
same vision and goals
Fosters high
quality
leadership at
all levels
Collaborates in
partnerships with
other agencies
and its community
Works together with
parents to
improve learning
Curriculum
for Excellence
successful learners
confident individuals
with
•enthusiasm and motivation for learning
•determination to reach high standards of achievement
•openness to new thinking and ideas
with
•self respect
•a sense of physical, mental and emotional wellbeing
•secure values and beliefs
•ambition
and able to
•use literacy, communication and numeracy skills
•use technology for learning
•think creatively and independently
•learn independently and as part of a group
•make reasoned evaluations
•link and apply different kinds of learning in
new situations
and able to
•relate to others and manage themselves
•pursue a healthy and active lifestyle
•be self aware
•develop and communicate their own beliefs
and view of the world
•live as independently as they can
•assess risk and take informed decisions
•achieve success in different areas of activity
To enable all young
people to become
responsible citizens
effective contributors
with
•respect for others
•commitment to participate responsibly in
political, economic, social and cultural life
with
•an enterprising attitude
•resilience
•self-reliance
and able to
•develop knowledge and understanding of
the world and Scotland’s place in it
•understand different beliefs and cultures
•make informed choices and decisions
•evaluate environmental, scientific and
technological issues
•develop informed, ethical views of complex
issues
and able to
•communicate in different ways and in
different settings
•work in partnership and in teams
•take the initiative and lead
•apply critical thinking in new contexts
•create and develop
•solve problems
Curriculum for Excellence – Key Ideas
• Put learning and teaching first – the how as
opposed to the what
• Assessment- how achievement is measured
• More autonomy for teachers – raising
professionalism and creativity
• Flexibility – teaching is child responsive, less
emphasis on inputs
• Single coherent curriculum 3-18
• Skills fit for 21st century and changing world
Organising learning
Organising learning through curriculum areas - to provide
breadth
• Health and wellbeing
• Languages
• Mathematics
• Science
• Social studies
• Expressive arts
• Technologies
• Religious and moral education
Principles
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Challenge and enjoyment
Breadth
Progression
Depth
Personalisation and choice
Coherence
Relevance
Health and Wellbeing
Included at three
levels…
• Area of the
Curriculum
• Permeating aspect of
school life
• Responsibility for all
Health and Wellbeing Curriculum Areas
 Mental, Emotional, Social and Physical Wellbeing
 Planning for Choices and Change
 Physical Education, Physical Activity and Sport
 Food and Health
 Substance Misuse
 Sexual Health, Relationships and Parenthood
At School level…
Fantastic practice
– Grounds and gardens
– Cooking skills
– Healthy enterprise
– Breakfast clubs
– Safer routes to schools
– Early intervention
– Peer Massage
– Parental involvement
– Cross curricular
programmes
– Interdisciplinary links ….
Opportunities for you
 Cover Paper and Draft Experiences and
Outcomes Engage and feedback your views…
Some bedtime reading…
 Building the Curriculum 1,2 and 3
 Getting it Right for Every Child
 Happy, Safe and Achieving Their Potential
 Health Promotion Guidance May 2008
“The curriculum needs to include space for
learning beyond subject boundaries, so that
learners can make connections between
different areas of learning. Through
interdisciplinary activities of this kind, young
people can develop their organisational
skills, creativity, teamwork and the ability to
apply their learning in new and challenging
contexts.”
 A Curriculum for Excellence: Progress and
Proposals
Only those who will risk going too far can
possibly find out how far one can go
T S Eliot