School Improvement Partnership Programme

Midlothian

Lasswade High SchoolNorth Berwick High School

Ross High School

East Lothian Council &

Midlothian Council

CfE Personal Support in our Schools• Role of Personal Support Entitlement in Raising

Attainment and Closing the Gap• Three Schools looking at how we support ALL learners

to raise achievement & attainment• Individual Implementation Programmes shared across

Working Groups• Tutor Time, Personal Support Programmes, Pastoral

Guidance• Personal Learning Planning, Coaching & Mentor

Programmes, Learner Conversations• Dweck’s Growth Mindset & Hattie’s Visible Learning• Finance to Support Implementation (ICT tbc),

Professional Development and INSET.

Research• Pupil Questionnaires• Pupil Focus Groups (Space Unlimited)• Staff Professional Opinion• Working Group Meetings• Professional Reading• Sharing best-practice visits• Headteacher & SLT Meetings• Use of Visible Learning• Personal Support Programmes.

Next Steps: Where are we going?• INSET Programme – April 2015• Sharing Best Practice from implementation• Learner Conversations as focus• Assessment Capable Leaners• Passionate & Inspired Teachers• OSIRIS – Visible Learning• Gregor Townsend – Growth Mindset in Sport• Full Implementation & Evaluation.

School Improvement Partnership Programme

Knox Academy Newbattle High School St David’s High School

Aim:• To bridge the gaps and address inequality by improving

learners’ experiences across our three partnership schools

Midlothian

Context• The School Improvement Planning Partnership

has offered an exciting opportunity to engage in professional sharing and dialogue within and across our three schools

• Through discussion, we identified learners’ experiences and professional engagement of staff as the core means of improving outcomes for all learners, thereby addressing inequality and closing the gap

Our Shared Outcomes

What have we done?• Staff made clear that they would value the

opportunity to visit other partner schools

• We used some of our budget to pay for cover to allow this to happen

• Three ‘Sharing Good Practice’ visits took place in November and December 2014.

It was really good to meet teachers from different schools and different subjects who had many of the same interests.

We often don’t get very much opportunity to observe other lessons, so it was great to have the time to do this, and probably more importantly, to discuss the lessons we observed with other teachers.

There were many interesting and useful discussions going on

throughout the day, which were both motivating and

inspiring.

I made several changes following the

visit to St. David’s and I found the visit really

motivating.

Next Steps• We have planned and organised a conference

which will take place at Queen Margaret University on Monday 18 May

• This will further build on the theme of improving learners’ experiences in order to close the gap and will provide workshop opportunities for all teaching staff to share good practice and build networks within and across our three schools

Discussion Question

•What strategies are there to ensure learners benefit as a result of staff professional learning?

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share ideas

Due on: Mon

How could we use a ‘visible learning’ approach to close the gap in S1 History?

Classwork Date:________

Aims: MUST: raise attainment in key skills of -writing essay paragraphs

-judging significance in HistorySHOULD: ‘close the gap’ between pupils with different levels of poverty

Activate knowledge: 1. List what you know about visible learning2. Share with your group...

HW:Join our email list to

share ideas

Due on: Mon

How could we use a ‘visible learning’ approach to close the gap in S1 History?

Classwork Date:________

Aims: MUST: raise attainment in key skills of -writing essay paragraphs

-judging significance in HistorySHOULD: ‘close the gap’ between pupils with different levels of poverty

Activate knowledge: 1. List what you know about visible learning2. Share with your group...

HW:Join our email list to

share ideas

Due on: Mon

How could we use a ‘visible learning’ approach to close the gap in S1 History?

Classwork Date:________

Aims: MUST: raise attainment in key skills of -writing essay paragraphs

-judging significance in HistorySHOULD: ‘close the gap’ between pupils with different levels of poverty

Visible learning??1. ‘know thy impact’2. Share it with students3. Use it to inform next steps

Who & how?Classwork Date:________

Subjects:• S1 class of mixed ability. • Not analysed separately according to poverty levels- the school in

general has a high level of poverty. • taught x2 / week in lessons of 50 minutes.

Measurement;• qualitative questions to judge students’ ability to reflect on their

learning- repeated at the end of the unit• baseline and a follow up test on the key skill of writing paragraphs• Parents asked for their feedback at start and end