Curriculum - Learning and Teaching
Our children aged 3-5 enjoy ‘A Curriculum for Excellence 3-18 which is challenging and appropriate to the needs of the individual child. We offer an exciting and challenging environment based on this Curriculum and guidance within Building the Ambition. The types of activities offered to the children are designed to cover the entire range of learning experiences and outcomes. Our planning sets out what skills we intend the children to learn in appropriate contexts, and takes into account children’s individual needs and stages of development. Assessment and recording is based on focused observations and is an integral part of the daily routine in an early years setting.
Each child’s progress is monitored and evaluated systematically, and we encourage parents to take all opportunities to discuss their children’s progress with staff.
These will link to the Curriculum for Excellence and show how your child is progressing in becoming:
- Effective Contributors
- Responsible Citizens
- Confident individuals
- Successful Learners
There are 8 curriculum areas with strong emphasis this year being placed upon; Early Literacy, Early Numeracy and Health and Well- Being.
- · Expressive arts
- · Language and Literacy
- · Health and Well- Being
- · Mathematics and numeracy
- · Religious and moral education
- · Science
- · Social studies
- · Technologies
Realising the Ambition
Realising the Ambition: Being Me builds upon the original principles and philosophy of Pre-Birth to 3 and Building the Ambition. The new guidance retains the relevant content from the previous guidance which it replaces, extending and strengthening it in line with current research and evidence about how children develop and learn.
High quality provision consists of many different interconnected aspects. The imagery of tartan has been used in the guidance to remind us of the uniqueness of our Scottish context – with each section seen as an interconnected thread contributing to the whole piece. Although each section has been developed so it can be used in any order to meet different needs and different contexts, we must always be mindful of this bigger picture.
The terms of ‘when I am a baby’, ‘when I am a toddler’ and ‘when I am a young child’ have been used to illustrate developmental needs over time – but these should not be seen as rigid lines of progression. All babies and young children develop their individual skills, knowledge and attributes at different rates according to who they are. The guidance can be used to support children with more complex needs by taking this into account.
Nurturing my Potential
This Glasgow City Council good practice framework ‘Nurturing my Potential’ has been developed to support practitioners working with babies and toddlers in their first 1000 days. This guidance refers to Scotland’s Early Learning and Childcare National Practice Guidance Realising the Ambition (Education Scotland, 2020). It also takes account of guidance from Care Inspectorate, Education Scotland and Scottish Government.
The framework puts children’s learning and development at the core. It requires practitioners to draw on their professional knowledge, including their in-depth knowledge of child development.