Schools Programme Launch: October 2015
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Overview
Improving equity and excellence
Schools Programme: making the breakthrough
Evaluating progress
Sharing success
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Raising attainment for all through….
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Non-negotiable high expectations for all
Zero tolerance of underperformance
Relentless optimism
Poverty and performance should not be linked
Constantly talking about standards
Forensic focus on children’s progress: keep shining the spotlight
on this
• Celebrating achievement, challenging underachievement
• Help everyone find their unique genius
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Evaluating equity as leaners move through CfE…
• Attainment
• Choices
• Opportunities
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Evidence of impact of CfE…..
Between September 2013 and June 2015, in
almost all schools inspected (91%), one or
more aspect of children’s/young people’s
positive attributes (e.g. confidence, ambition,
motivation) and/or learning experiences are
reported as a key strength
Experiences are improving, but are outcomes improving?
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CfE Implementation Plan 15/16 and the Inspection
Advice note
•What range of data do you use to improve outcomes? What evidence
is your curriculum model based on?
•Clear plan in place for raising attainment in literacy and numeracy:
which strategies and approaches are you using?
•Know the gap at class and school level: what is the difference in the
progress and achievement between the most and least deprived
children?
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1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal
and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world
works.
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2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and
thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you
can probably get a career in it.
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3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the
natural order of things.
Douglas Adams
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Equality is the process, equity is the outcome
• You need to fill the gap before you close the gap
• Who is quietly underachieving in your school?
• Low attaining children often spend a lot of time with support staff – are you
monitoring the impact of this?
• Avoid ‘intervention add-ons’ We need well planned pathways
• Education Endowment Foundation website – using evidence to narrow the
gap
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Sources of support
• Education Endowment Fund teaching and learning toolkit
• Closing the attainment gap in Scottish education – Joseph Rowntree Foundation
• New Scottish Attainment Challenge website
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What is the Scottish Attainment Challenge?
Programme of activities to bring a greater sense of
urgency and priority for everyone involved in Scottish
education to focus their efforts on narrowing the
attainment gap between those children living in
Scotland’s least and most deprived areas.
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What is new?
Scottish Attainment Challenge
Universal
Support
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Attainment
Scotland
Fund
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Challenge Schools Programme
• 57 Primary Schools with more than 70% of children living in SIMD 1&2
• The breakthrough we need will happen in your schools!
• Leading the way nationally and internationally on how to close the poverty
related attainment gap for primary school children
• Implementing additional targeted interventions in literacy, numeracy and
health and wellbeing through collaborative enquiry
• Engaging in Headteacher network and programme for class teachers
• Working with us nationally: Scottish Government and Education Scotland
core team, including your attainment advisor
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Corporate plan – our four pillars
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Being part of the programme will involve…
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Planning and implementing additional interventions (funding)
Using agreed approaches to evaluating impact
Joining our new headteacher network, meeting quarterly
Nominating a class teacher to join our professional learning community
Engaging with our core team
Sharing practice and successes across schools and nationally
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Using your current data – where to start?
Your analysis and intervention to help every
child make the best possible progress, based on
a range of assessment evidence.
Moderation: both ongoing
and focused activities.
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How Good is our School 4 Framework
Leadership and
management:
How good is our
leadership and
approach to
improvement?
Successes and
achievements:
How good are we
at ensuring the
best possible
outcomes for all
our learners?
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What is our
capacity for
continuous
improvement?
Learning
provision: How
good is the quality
of care and
education we
offer?
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How Good is our School 4
15 revised quality indicators include:
•Teaching, learning and assessment
•Personalised support
•Raising attainment and achievement
•Family learning and engagement
Translates and connects all current policy priorities into a clear set
of indicators/ areas of action
Launched at the Scottish Learning Festival last week
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National Improvement Framework
Our Priorities
• Improvement in attainment, specifically in
reading, writing and numeracy
• Closing the attainment gap between the
most and least disadvantaged children
• Improvement in children and young
people’s health and wellbeing
• Improvement in sustained school leaver
destinations for all young people
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Never forget how important what you say and do as
headteacher is…
Control (is she in charge)
Clarity (is she sure of her ground)
Coherence (can I align my aspirations with hers)
Concern (does she understand the challenges I face)
Consistency (will she adopt the behaviours she espouses?)
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Thank you!
@GLoganEd
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