Curriculum for Excellence Into a second decade

What are we talking about? Children not structures Needs not frameworks Responsiveness not provision Respect and entitlement not permissions Reality and not rhetoric Changing the culture not just the rhetoric

And learning Based on the gifts not the deficits It has to be active It has to involve the quest for meaning It has to be varied It needs motivation It should respect disciplines but not be dominated by them It must be assessed in terms of breadth, depth and application

It has to take children somewhere It has to be accredited It has to make them capable, not just qualified

Eric Hoffer In times of change, the learners shall inherit the earth while the learned will remain beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists

David Cameron And the learners who can create and innovate, who can identify opportunity and manage risk will shape that inheritance and define the future

What we know from today and before We have a voice which is being well exercised and heard We are in a conversation, not just a dialogue We will get some legislation and support and we might get some change In times of financial restraint parents offer value Educationists have 1500 hours, parents have as much as we are prepared to give

We can create the links and the synergies We can influence We have survived We are here for the long haul We will work with what we have but we will work to have more and better

If the ambition is to get it right for every child and to get if right for Scotland, we cant just change the curriculum And we cant neglect the resources that really bring change