The Curriculum for Excellence is a major educational reform with the aim of providing a wider, more flexible range of courses and subjects. As the Scottish government only sets guidelines about the school curriculum, schools needn’t stick to rigid learning paths and can make their own decisions on what to teach pupils.
There are three core subjects that schools must ensure are taught: health and wellbeing, literacy and numeracy. Other than that, they’re free to:
• introduce projects that use skills and knowledge from more than one subject, leading to joined-up learning
• teach about people and places from their local area
• ask pupils about areas they’re interested in studying