A Curriculum for Excellence (ACE)

About CfE

CfE as the centrepiece of the Scottish Government's Ambitious, Excellent, Schools agenda, represents the biggest educational reform since the advent of 5-14. It aims to focus classroom practice upon the child and around the four capacities of education:
 successful learners
 confident individuals
 responsible citizens
 effective contributors
It also aims to:
 simplify and prioritise the current curriculum
 encourage more learning through experiences
 create a single framework for the curriculum and assessment 3-18.

Who are we?

At Scottish Borders Council, we have a dedicated CfE team, based at the Langlee Complex in Galashiels.
Members of the team are
 Lawrence Alexander - Curriculum Manager
 Jan Deans
 Fiona Jeffrey

The CfE team welcomes hearing about innovative and creative projects from schools or cluster areas. It is the team's intention to promote, support and share good practice. You can contact the CfE team online.

Engagement with the Experiences and Outcomes

In order to have a strategy in place for engaging with the Experiences and Outcomes, SBC convened nine groups of practitioners, from Nursery, Primary and Secondary establishments, to work with the CfE Team. As an end-product we hope to have two main items:

 a constructive feed-back for LTS which will include a note of our distilled views of some of the draft Experiences and Outcomes, as well as details of teachers' findings after their classroom pilot work
 a resource which will be compiled by our CfE Team, and distributed to all our schools, which will contain practical advice and suggestions on how CfE may be delivered in our classrooms. To see some of these items, including exemplification at all levels, and other examples of interesting practice from SBC, follow the link below.

Please note - Online feedback for Technologies, Health & Wellbeing and R.M.E. closes on the 14th November (30th November for paper copies)