Scottish Learning Festival spotlights

Glow and the Curriculum for Excellence

Marie Dougan, Programme Director, Glow, and Margo Williamson, then Programme Director, Curriculum and Assessment

At a Scottish Learning Festival Spotlight in September 2007, Margo Williamson and Marie Dougan, both of Learning and Teaching Scotland, provided a dynamic presentation outlining the synergies between Glow (the national schools intranet, digitally linking Scotland's 800,000 educators and pupils) and Curriculum for Excellence. 

Glow's many capabilities were also highlighted by three talented pupils from St Fergus RC Primary in Dundee. 

Watch the following video clips to see how the Traverse Theatre group worked with primary school pupils in West Dunbartonshire on script- and play-writing workshops.

Outcomes and Experiences for Effective Learning

Margo Williamson, then Programme Director, Learning and Teaching Scotland, and Chris Mclllroy, HMIE

At a Scottish Learning Festival Spotlight in September 2007, 500 people listened to Margo Williamson and Chris McIllroy provide an update on developments in Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland.

Margo began with an overview, then discussed an innovative and creative way of looking at the curriculum, based on a model designed by Ted Wragg.This illustrative model was used to explain the complexity of what the curriculum covers.

Chris highlighted the link between advice and professional responsibility and the link to classroom learning and teaching. Examples of draft outcomes for science and numeracy were used to illustrate his presentation.

Finally, youngsters from King's Park Secondary School in Glasgow added their understanding of Curriculum for Excellence.

For a more detailed seminar description, speaker biographies and the presenters' notes, go to the Scottish Learning Festival site.

Curriculum Architecture in the Primary School

Barbara Thomson, Engagement Team Member, Curriculum for Excellence

The coming year will see the emergence of learning outcomes and experiences across the curriculum. Teachers will have to consider how these outcomes and experiences will be delivered: through the four capacities, as part of ethos and life of the school, as part of interdisciplinary studies and projects, and as an opportunity for personal achievement.

At the Scottish Learning Festival 2007 Barbara Thomson highlighted possibilities for and exemplars of curriculum architecture within the primary school and focused on the leadership role at different levels.

For a more detailed seminar description, speaker biographies, an audio recording of the presentation and the presenters' notes, go to the Scottish Learning Festival site.