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Broadening curriculum opportunities and Insight related information

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Broadening curriculum opportunities and Insight related information

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A PPT of all "non-National" qualifications achieved during session 24/25 (will be updated with 25/26 data once Sept Update is produced) grouped by CfE Curriculum Area.

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A series of webinars designed to upskill participants in the use of Insight. The content of the course will be targeted at senior school leadership and those with a whole school raising attainment role.  Local Authority attainment leads would also be very welcome to attend.

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Developing Your Use of Insight for Senior Leaders - Cohort 3

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This is a repeat, with some modifications, of the webinar series delivered in May 2025 (Cohort 1) and Sept 2025 (Cohort 2). Note an additional ASN themed session has been added.A series of webinars designed to upskill participants in the use of Insight. The course consists of seven core sessions, plus one optional session. The course is targeted at senior school leadership and those with a raising attainment role. Local Authority leads would also be welcome to attend.Each of the core webinars will be delivered twice in one week, attendees need only attend one per week. To get the most out of the course, attendees are strongly encouraged to attend all core sessions. Note: Attendees will wish to use their own Insight data during the sessions.Details of the webinars are as follows. Please make note of the sessions you wish to attend.Webinar 1 - Beginners guide and National Headline statistics - 11 May 14:30-15:30 & 12 May 10:00-11:00Outline of each measureOverview of Help & SupportTariff points and the Virtual Comparator (VC)National statistics relevant to benchmarking Webinar 2 - Whole school attainment (Part 1) - 18 May 14:30-15:30 & 21 May 11:00-12:00Use of Breadth and Depth and Attainment for AllFocus initially on S4, and then progression into S5 and S6Local and National data considered Webinar 3 - Whole school attainment (Part 2) - 27 May 10:00-11:00 & 28 May 14:30-15:30Attainment vs Deprivation and Literacy & NumeracyWhat successes contribute towards Literacy & Numeracy measureWebinar 4 - Additional Support Needs (ASN) - 1 June 14:30-15:30 & 2 June 10:00-11:00Recording of ASN and the ASN information Insight usesImpact of ASN on Insight data and VCASN focused analysis on selected Insight dataWebinar 5 - Subject analysis - 8 June 14:30-15:30 & 9 June 10:00-11:00Whole School Summary, presentation rates and quality of passSurfacing Awards of different typesSubject progression through Senior Phase Webinar 6 - Destinations - 16 June 10:00-11:00 & 18 June 14:30-15:30Going beyond “top-level” destinations percentageWhat destinations are our leavers going on to?How well does our curriculum prepare learners for these destinations? Webinar 7 - Analytical Dataset - 22 June 14:30-15:30 & 23 June 10:00-11:00Understanding and using the dataset to “get under” the Insight data Webinar 8 - Q&A / Debrief / Myth-busting - 25 June 11:00-12:00An opportunity to ask and answer questions

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The Insight questions we are currently (and frequently) being asked 

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The Insight questions we are currently (and frequently) being asked 

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New from Feb '25, this resource will compile questions asked of us and hopefully let you find answers more quickly!

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For an advanced understanding of Insight

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Help and Support with Insight - Deep Dives into particular aspects of Insight

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Help and Support with Insight - Deep Dives into particular aspects of Insight

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A step-by-step, measure-by-measure, guide

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Help and Support with Insight - Guides for Beginners

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Help and Support with Insight - Guides for Beginners

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How to access Help and Support.

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What we see when visiting schools and what others within education are doing

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What we see when visiting schools and what others within education are doing

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Complementary Tariff Points - an explainer (PPT)

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Complementary Tariff Points - an explainer (PPT)

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Moving beyond the concept of "best 5" to develop awareness of how the SCQF Credit Points of qualifications impact upon Complementary Tariff Points.

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Complementary Tariff Points - an explainer (video)

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Complementary Tariff Points - an explainer (video)

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A video guide to the above PPT.

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Useful background information

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We scheduled a number of half-hour drop-in sessions where we went over ASN/Insight information. The PPT used is included here.

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Session 1 PPT - Cohort 3 (May 2026 Webinars)

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Session 1 PPT - Cohort 3 (May 2026 Webinars)

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Slide deck used in session 1 of Cohort 3

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Insight Webinars May - 2026 - padlet version

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A step-by-step, measure-by-measure, guide

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Email sent to all Centres and LA contacts on 7 Dec 2023 regarding Wider Award Providers.

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Everything that Qualifications Scotland offer

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Understanding tariff points for National Courses

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Understanding tariff points for National Courses

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A ready reckoner covering Nat1->Nat5, Higher and AH courses

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Calculate points for SCQF units and courses

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Insight Tariff Point Calculator

This simple calculator is designed to help you quickly calculate Insight Tariff Points for the most common courses and units. It doesn't work in all cases, for example for Bac-IP and OU YASS courses.

Please note that de-duplication of tariff points occurs to ensure attainment is not double-counted when the same learner has completed, for example, the same unit across multiple courses. This may result in a course achieving fewer points than calculated below once de-duplication occurs.

How to use this calculator

You will need to know the SCQF credit points and SCQF level for your course or unit. The SCQF database and SQA Catalogue of National Qualifications are useful resources for this.

If you continue to be unsure, your award provider should be able to tell you these.

Tick the Course Weight box if this is a full course and has a course assessment element (e.g. added value unit at National 4 or course assessment at National 5 and above).

You should also select Course Weight if the course has been assessed as having 'added value' - this applies to Foundation Apprenticeships, Skills for Work, Ungraded National Courses, National Certificates, National Progression Awards and Scottish Vocational Qualifications.

Finally, select the appropriate result (Pass or Graded) and click Calculate tariff points

Calculator

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This simple calculator is designed to help you quickly calculate Insight Tariff Points for the most common courses and units. It doesn't work in all cases, for example for Bac-IP and OU YASS courses. Please note that de-duplication of tariff points occurs to ensure attainment is not double-counted when the same learner has completed, for example, the same unit across multiple courses.

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What successes contribute to this measure.

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Loads of great information on the SCQF Ambassador program here. Also includes some great curriculum pathway resources.

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Collection of short "how to" video clips

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Collection of short "how to" video clips

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How to begin using Insight

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Using Breadth & Depth to surface how well learners are completing their courses

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Using points to understand attainment

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Finding your awards and identifying what others are offering

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The Insight Advisors, Nicola Crawford and Lewis Paterson are available to support your Insight journey.

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The Insight Advisors, Nicola Crawford and Lewis Paterson are available to support your Insight journey.

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Accessing the deep dive to support your analysis of Destinations data.

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Routes to Success - Castlemilk High School

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SLF online 2021 A joined up approach to curriculum making with SCQF and Insight

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Routes to Success - Exploring ways to enhance pathways within Senior Phase 1

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Along with colleagues from Ed Scot, SCQF and school SLT we delivered “Routes to Success” online sessions

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Routes to Success - Exploring ways to enhance pathways within Senior Phase 1

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SCQF Ambassador info -https://padlet.com/dwood109/scqf-school-ambassadors-asn7xn21gponorhf

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Capturing wider achievement

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ADDED FEB 2024 - A new filter, added to B&D measures, to allow filtering on SCQF Credit points (course duration). How have courses of different lengths impacted upon B&D?

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UPDATED - Qualifications Scotland courses presented in session 25/26 (updated August 2026)

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UPDATED - Qualifications Scotland courses presented in session 25/26 (updated August 2026)

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We are often asked "what other schools are offering?" when discussing curriculum offer. Here are all the Qualifications Scotland awards presented in centres in session 25/26.

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A session we did with our friends at SCQF

https://padlet.com/dwood109/scqf-school-ambassadors-asn7xn21gponorhf/wish/2064651723

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This is the Advisor offer for session 26/27.

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Scotland's approach

Scotland's curriculum places learners at the heart of education. At its centre are four fundamental capacities. These capacities reflect and recognise the lifelong nature of education and learning. They:

recognise the need for all children and young people to know themselves as individuals and to develop their relationships with others, in families and in communities

recognise the knowledge, skills and attributes that children and young people need to acquire to thrive in our interconnected, digital and rapidly changing world

enable children and young people to be democratic citizens and active shapers of that world

See more on Scotland's Curriculum website.
PDF file: Refreshed CfE Narrative A5 booklet (115 KB)PDF file: Blank Four Capacities template (1.2 MB)PPT file: The Four Capacities - templates (1 MB)
A thought paper Exploring The Four Capacities, commissioned by Education Scotland and pulled together by NoTosh, brings together the views of over 150 educators and over 600 learners from across Scotland's education system. It offers insight and provocation to inform the National Discussion on Education and to stimulate your own exploration of the four capacities.
PDF file: Education Scotland - NoTosh - Exploring The Four Capacities - October 2022 (972 KB)
What matters?

As part of their learner journey, all children and young people in Scotland are entitled to experience a coherent curriculum from 3 to 18, in order that they have opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to adapt, think critically and flourish in today's world.

Curriculum is defined as the totality of all that is planned for children and young people from early learning and childcare, through school and beyond. That totality can be planned for and experienced by learners across four contexts:
PDF file: Four Contexts - Growing Collection Of Examples (3 MB)PDF file: Blank Four Contexts template (366 KB)PPT file: The Four Contexts - templates (483 KB)PPT file: The Four Contexts presentation (911 KB)DigiLearnScot - Wakelet PDF file: IDL: Ambitious learning for an increasingly complex world (4 MB)
How?

Taking curricular aims and translating them into practice is a continuous process. Getting this right is critical and this section sets out key considerations, activities and ways of working to support the process of curriculum making.

1. Understanding the learners

Listening to learners and the wider school community is key to understanding their motivations and aspirations. The following video and Powerpoint offer some basic service design tools to facilitate dialogue on curriculum making.
West Lothian Design Thinking Session 21/01/22
The Moderation Cycle PPT File: Understanding the learners using Service Design Tools (1.3 MB)PDF file: Sketchnote - Scottish Curriculum Framework (2.1 MB)DigiLearnScot - Wakelet Skills Development Scotland: Meta-Skills Toolkit Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework: Support for Educators and Advisers
2. Knowing the big ideas

3. Being clear on the practical approaches
PDF file: Learner Pathways: A key to successful curriculum design (157 KB)PDF file: Learner Pathways: A key to successful curriculum design - Gaelic version (243 KB)PDF file: Interdisciplinary Learning: ambitious learning for an increasingly complex world (339 KB)PDF file: Interdisciplinary Learning: ambitious learning for an increasingly complex world - Gaelic version (521 KB)
Education Scotland has published two other thought papers on curriculum design:

These papers are the outcome of co-design work led by Education Scotland, No Tosh and 40 partners from local authorities between January and March 2020. They capture the shared thinking and consensus of the group and mark the end of the first stage of curriculum design work in each area.

Also see the Curriculum Stories Project:
Primary: Thinglink page: Outdoor Learning at Dyce School PDF file: Hazlehead School - case study (149 KB)Secondary: YouTube video: SLF online 2021 A joined up approach to curriculum making with SCQF and Insight YouTube video: Routes to Success - Castlemilk High School YouTube video: Routes to Success YouTube video: Routes to Success - Exploring ways to enhance pathways within Senior Phase 1
Here are some examples of the practical approaches settings have taken to curriculum making in session 2020/21:

4. Using meaningful learning networks
Education Scotland - Professional Learning and Leadership
Engage with a range of online learning activities, search our professional learning programmes and find national, regional and local events that meet your interests and needs:
Education Scotland - National e-Learning Offer
The National e-Learning Offer complements the delivery of teaching and learning by schools and settings, local authorities and Regional Improvement Collaboratives in Scotland. You will find resources to support learning across the curriculum.
Education Scotland - Regional Directorate RIC plans
Education Scotland's Regional Improvement Directorate has six Regional Improvement Teams which include staff in a diverse range of roles who all contribute to providing professional advice and bespoke support to settings, schools, local authorities and Regional Improvement Collaboratives.
General Teaching Council for Scotland: Standards-2021
5. Knowing your own learning and support needs

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Resources to Support Scotland's Curriculum Framework

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Scotland's curriculum places learners at the heart of education. At its centre are four fundamental capacities. These capacities reflect and recognise the lifelong nature of education and learning.

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Insight Support Request // Session 26/27

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It is never to early to submit one of these. Advisors are frequently booked up months in advance. Please use the above form to arrange Advisor support sessions.

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Insight Support Request // Sessions 24/25 and 25/26

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Insight Support Request // Sessions 24/25 and 25/26

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Qualifications Scotland Awards and SCQF points

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SCQF Credit points of Qualifications Scotland Awards

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SCQF Credit points of Qualifications Scotland Awards

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Many schools are using Qualifications Scotland Awards within their curriculum. The SCQF Credit points (notional duration) of these Awards vary; this impacts of the Insight tariff points* the Awards receive.

This spreadsheets details the Awards delivered in 24/25 and the duration of the Awards. This may help in curriculum planning and understanding the tariff points allocated to each Award.

*always worth double-checking the Awards Arrangements document to ensure information is up-to-date

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Insight@gov.scot - looking forward to hearing from you!

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Using deprivation data to inform improvements

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"Non-National" Awards in 2024/25, grouped by Curriculum Area

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"Non-National" Awards in 2024/25, grouped by Curriculum Area

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This document groups all the "Non-National" qualifications at SCQF levels 4, 5 and 6 resulted across Scotland last year. It is grouped by SCQF Level and CfE Curriculum Area to aid your curriculum development work.

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Demo spreadsheet showing subject level analysis. NOTE you'll need to download the spreadsheet and open it in your spreadsheet app to see the formulae.

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Using Insight to understand impact of recent improvements

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Linking attainment to post-school participation

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Interrogating how different cohorts perform

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Deep Dive 7 - National and School Presentation Rates

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Deep Dive 7 - National and School Presentation Rates

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A how-to guide to finding presentation rates at school and national level

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Deep Dive 8 - Using the Analytical Dataset

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Deep Dive 8 - Using the Analytical Dataset

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Using the Dataset to enhance your analysis

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Comparing attainment in SQA graded courses

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Linking with other centres to aid partnership working

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See the list on non-SQA providers within Deep Dive 2. The Dive also contains SCQF information to facilitate curriculum planning.