Curriculum for Excellence Teaching Resources (Scotland)
Curriculum for Excellence Teaching Resources (Scotland)
Complete units for the broad general education, written around the experiences and outcomes your class is working towards. Download, change the context to suit your school, and teach it on Monday morning.
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Literacy and wider curriculum units for BGE classes
A selection of the units Scottish colleagues use across P5 to S3, each with a slide deck and marking key included: tap any cover for the full preview, contents and price.
Programming with Python – Computer Science Unit: Worksheets, Projects & Slides (Grades 6–9)
Grade 5 Phonics & Morphology – Word Study for Confident Readers
How the Internet Works – Computer Science Unit: Worksheets, Projects & Slides (Grades 6–9)
Music Analysis Mega Bundle | Music History, Media Literacy, Psychology & Music Theatre
Analysis Vocabulary and Operators for Text Analysis
Why teachers use these
Why Scottish teachers use these
Curriculum for Excellence hands you the freedom to design the learning, which is a gift in June and a problem at half past nine on a Sunday night. Forward plans still need filling, tracking and monitoring meetings still want evidence, and moderation still asks how you decided a child had achieved a level. A ready-built unit gives you a sequence, a slide deck and four levels of task, so your planning time goes on the Es and Os and the Benchmarks rather than on typing worksheets.
What's covered
What is in every download
Each unit is a whole teaching sequence in one file, not a single sheet you still have to build a lesson around.
- Four levels of differentiated worksheet
- Editable PowerPoint for the board
- Lesson plan with suggested timings
- Complete answer keys
- Printable and digital versions
- Reusable in your classroom each year
Make it work for everyone
Differentiation and holistic assessment
The four task levels let one class work on the same learning while the challenge shifts, which is what a mixed First and Second Level group actually needs. Because the tasks ask pupils to explain and apply rather than tick boxes, the finished work sits comfortably in a folio as evidence of breadth and application when you come to judge achievement of a level.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Are these approved by Education Scotland or the SQA?
No. Nothing here is endorsed, approved or checked by Education Scotland, the SQA or any local authority. The units are written to the concepts and skills Curriculum for Excellence covers, and they line up with the experiences and outcomes for the levels described. You remain the professional deciding whether a task fits your planned Es and Os.
My class spans two levels. Does that work?
That is the usual case in a Scottish classroom and it is what the four differentiated levels are for. Everyone meets the same stimulus and the same slides, then pupils working within Second Level and those secure at Third Level get tasks pitched differently. It keeps the class discussion whole instead of splitting it into two lessons.
Can I edit the wording for my own forward plan?
Yes. Everything arrives as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, so you can paste in the exact Es and Os codes your school tracks, change names and places to local ones, or cut a task that will not fit a 50-minute period. Save your edited version and reuse it next session.
Plan your next block in one sitting
Pick a complete unit, adapt the contexts to your school, and get your evening back.
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