Experiences and outcomes

Published 01/01/2017. Last updated 27/04/2026

Experiences and outcomes (often called Es&Os) are a set of clear and concise statements about children's learning and progression in each curriculum area. They are used to help plan learning and to assess progress. Es&Os are available in 2 languages - English and Gaelic.

Benchmarks have been developed to provide clarity on the national standards expected within each curriculum area at each level. They set out clear lines of progression in literacy and English and numeracy and mathematics, and across all other curriculum areas from early to fourth levels (first to fourth Levels in Modern Languages). Their purpose is to make clear what learners need to know and be able to do to progress through the levels, and to support consistency in teachers' and other practitioners' professional judgements.

Es&Os are included in the benchmark documents.

There are sets of Es&Os for the three areas that are the responsibility of all staff - literacy across learning, numeracy across learning and health and wellbeing across learning.

All experiences and outcomes

All experiences and outcomes (PDF, 2.27MB) contains the experiences and outcomes for all curriculum areas.

By exploring the entire set of experiences and outcomes, you will be able to see the curriculum from the early years to the end of S3 as a whole.

Expressive arts

Expressive arts (PDF, 387KB)

Expressive arts (Gaelic) (PDF, 274KB)

Health and wellbeing

Health and wellbeing (PDF, 541KB)

Health and wellbeing (Gaelic) (PDF, 404KB)

Languages

This curriculum area includes literacy and English, literacy and Gàidhlig, Gaelic (Learners), modern languages and classical languages.

Numeracy and mathematics

Numeracy and mathematics (PDF, 457KB)

Numeracy and mathematics (Gaelic) (PDF, 333 KB)

Religious and moral education/Religious education

Religious and moral education (non-denominational)

Religious and moral education (PDF, 389KB)

Religious and moral education (Gaelic) (PDF, 281 KB)

Religious education in Roman Catholic schools

Religious education in Roman Catholic schools (PDF, 386KB)

PDF file: Religious education in Roman Catholic schools (Gaelic) (PDF, 279KB)

Sciences

Sciences (PDF, 673KB)

Sciences (Gaelic) (PDF, 692KB)

Social studies

Social studies (PDF, 436KB)

Social studies (Gaelic) (PDF, 374KB)

Technologies

Technologies (PDF, 352KB)

Technologies (Gaelic) (PDF, 420KB)

Responsibility of all: Health and wellbeing, literacy, numeracy across learning

Combined Responsibility of all (PDF, 515KB)

Health and wellbeing across learning (PDF, 380KB)

Health and Wellbeing across learning (Gaelic) (PDF, 233KB)

Literacy across learning (PDF, 364KB)

Literacy (Gaelic) (PDF, 304KB)

Numeracy across learning (PDF, 373KB)

Numeracy across learning (Gaelic) (PDF, 252KB)

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Experiences and outcomes

Published 01/01/2017. Last updated 27/04/2026

Es&Os are included in the benchmark documents.

There are sets of Es&Os for the three areas that are the responsibility of all staff - literacy across learning, numeracy across learning and health and wellbeing across learning.