‘Play is the highest form of research’
Albert Einstein - Physicist. Thinker. Nobel Physics Prize Laureate
Curriculum for Excellence
The document offers breadth, depth & challenge within each of the eight curricular areas & when used alongside the benchmarks, it is a great tool for delivering learning to an extremely high standard. Although within the document, the eight curricular areas stand alone & seem very separated, they actually very much interlink. This curriculum focuses on our children developing within ‘4 capacities’ & allows for continuity throughout their education from 3-18 through having the consistency of one curriculum which in itself can support to ease transition through different educational establishments. It is a fantastic tool for educators to use & is used extensively in early years establishments & primary schools. One of the reasons that the Curriculum is so effective is that it is broken up in to different categories such as the 4 capacities, experiences & outcomes, curricular areas, & the curriculum principles. On a practical level the document also gives practitioners support in how to best use it to implement learning experiences using the Experiences & Outcomes. A Curriculum for Excellence also ensures that educators can focus on priorities for learning such as Literacy, Numeracy & Health and Well-being.
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. In addition, the guidance draws on International practice and research for example.
This Good Practice Framework aims to provide information and knowledge to support quality learning and development during a child’s first 3 years. Realising the Ambition should still be used as this framework is intended to complement and support, but not replace.
Realising the Ambition - Being Me
The document has been creatively and sensitively designed to guide & support all those who work with babies & children in the early learning & childcare sector & beyond into the early years of primary school in Scotland. Threaded throughout the document you will find updated information, detailed advice based on recent research & signposting to a wide range of professional development resources. Realising the Ambition: Being Me builds on the premise contained in the original guidance Building the Ambition & Pre-Birth to Three, that our babies & children deserve the very best experiences throughout their learning journey; before birth & beyond. Realising this ambition can only be achieved if all of our services aspire to provide our babies, children & their families with flexible, accessible & affordable provision of the highest quality. Research has shown that children’s life chances, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, can benefit socially, emotionally & cognitively by accessing world class early years education. The golden thread that links provision, opportunity & potential is quality.
Glasgow Counts aims to fill young minds with a sense of agency and endow them with the motivation, courage and belief in their power to influence their own futures. We want our young people to engage with mathematics and build their comprehension of the subject across the curriculum. In addition, we aim to build better mathematical understanding in and beyond our classrooms.
Glasgow Counts
Literacy for All is an evolving framework which aims to build capacity and develop understanding of Literacy as a transformational tool. LfA approaches help to develop consistency across Glasgow's establishments, raising achievement and engagement through examining what works and how best to support our learners.
