Curriculum for Excellence
Education Scotland works in collaboration with stakeholders, learners, practitioners and communities to help children and learners acquire the four capacities of Curriculum for Excellence.
Our focus, shared with partners, is that all learners and educators involved in the delivery of education in Scotland must be empowered and inspired to shape innovative learning and teaching practice which delivers the ambition of excellence and equity.

Curriculum areas
Find out more about CfE's eight curriculum areas.
About Curriculum for Excellence
Find out more about Curriculum for Excellence (CfE).
Curriculum Themes
Find information on themed areas including Community Resilience, Gaelic Education, Political Literacy and CLD.

Benchmarks
Developed to provide clarity on the national standards expected within each curriculum area at each level.

Experiences and Outcomes
Use the experiences and outcomes to help plan learning and assess progress across all curriculum areas.

Curriculum principles and practice
The principles and practice documents are essential reading for practitioners as they begin, and then develop, their work with the statements of experiences and outcomes.

Building the Curriculum
The Building the Curriculum series of documents provides advice, guidance and policy for different aspects of Curriculum for Excellence.