Curriculum - leading to qualifications in the senior phase

With Curriculum for Excellence, secondary schools are organised in the following ways:

• S1 - S3 experience a broad general education and build on the work done in primary schools covering Curriculum for Excellence 3rd and 4th Levels.
  • There continues to be a strong focus on interactive teaching, literacy and numeracy, cross-curricular working and learning outside the classroom.
• S4 - S6
  • Senior phase when qualifications are taken.

Qualifications

National qualifications are as follows:

• National 4 replaced Standard Grade General and Intermediate 1
  • The National 4 course is assessed internally and is ungraded
• National 5 replaced Standard Grade Credit and Intermediate 2
  • The National 5 course involves an external assessment that is graded

Revisions have also been made to Higher and Advanced Higher qualifications.