This paper outlines important messages for all those involved in planning the curriculum for children and young people and provides guidance on a new framework.
For the first time, the pre-school sector and the early years of primary will be presented together as one level. Here we provide an overview of active learning in the early years.
This section of the Curriculum for Excellence website introduces the eight curriculum areas and how they will contribute to the development of the four capacities.
Look back over the documents which have helped steer the process for building the new curriculum.

The Curriculum for Excellence newsletters cover a range of progress updates, developments, news and events.
Spring 2008 issue now available to download.
A number of research projects, including reviews of research-based literature, have been carried out to inform the development of Curriculum for Excellence.