Strategic Improvement Plan
Inverclyde Council Education Services
Establishment Name:
Lady Alice Primary School
Head of Establishment:
Betty Terris
Date:
NB - Additions to Year 2 are printed in italics
and are underlined. These additions were as a
result of self-evaluation and consultations with
parents/carers.
May 2013
What is our current position?
Values
We have developed our GIRFEC work – stakeholders
know of our work, a leaflet is being produced and 2
displays (nursery & foyer) have been put in place.
Every child participated in a Health Week in March 2013
and Sexual Health lessons have begun.
- May 2013
Learning and Teaching
Totality of the Curriculum
The work in all 3 garden continues albeit at a slow pace.
Our forward planning tool is now totally reflected and completed.
We took part in the Enterprise Challenge and the UNICEF
challenge thus monitoring our enterprise agenda.
We continue our training for cooperative learning where possible.
We continue with our
assemblies on a monthly basis.
We hold fortnightly achievement assemblies and some classes
have learning logs too.
Peer assessment (staff) is ongoing.
Setting targets and profiling is on-going.
Experiences and Outcomes
Responsible Citizens
Confident Individuals
The ‘meet the teacher’ sessions in September 2012 were
very successful and will be repeated in September 2013.
A major focus in March on the Health & Wellbeing
experiences was very successful.
We expanded our home groups during this week and all
agreed to do more of this in the future.
Personal Support
The engaging of children in their own learning has been
successful and we will continue this.
On the June 2013 inset day we continued our restorative
practice work.
We involved Parents/Carers in our Health Week work.
Entitlements
All stage intervention paperwork was revisited and
updated.
GIRFEC
Successful Learners
Effective Contributors
Principles
We devoted a collegiate time to discuss issues
surrounding personilsation choice and challenge and
enjoyment.
We devised and discussed a clear rationale of the 7 key
principles.
Assessment
All AifL strategies were revisited and refreshed.
We continue to use PIPS as an assessment tool.
The new reporting system was put in place –
parents/carers have been asked to comment.
The moderation process in on-going. Next year (13-14)
we intend to use our level meetings for more in depth
moderation work.
What will it look like in the future? May 2015
Values
Our curriculum will be fully developed and firmly
embedded.
It will be rich, relevant and inclusive and understood and
modeled by all stakeholders.
We will have improved our lifestyles by fully embracing the
health and well being indicators and the GIRFEC agenda
will be firmly in place.
We will have the highest quality of learning and teaching
and all stakeholders will be actively involved in all aspects
of school life.
Experiences and Outcomes
Progression in learning and tracking are in place across
the curriculum.
The Experiences and Outcomes have been developed
through the contexts and the learning experiences is
matched to learners’ needs.
The principles are fully developed across all areas.
Totality of the Curriculum
Children will be practising their learning in enhanced and
real settings and will be able to apply skills and relevance
in all contexts.
We will have a prominent place in advancing all aspects of
‘global education’ including enterprise, sustainable
development and outdoor education in the immediate and
further environments.
Every stakeholder will be highly motivated.
Responsible Citizens
Confident Individuals
GIRFEC
Successful Learners
Effective Contributors
Personal Support
Transitions programmes will be smooth and robust. We
will have considered the current work of Dr Harry Burns
(Chief Medical Officer for Scotland) and his team and will
have embedded in particularly the Health & Welllbeing
outcomes safe in the knowledge that healthier children
equate to better learners.
Our children will be engaged in their own learning.
We will offer a fully inclusive curriculum.
Learning and Teaching
Planning will be fully embedded to aid learning and
teaching is in its simplest form. Our learners and
teachers will be well motivated, eager and responsive.
We will have created a totally stimulating learning
environment where we all celebrate achievement and
progress. All stakeholders will be making full use of our
inclusive, enriched curriculum.
Everyone will be actively involved and will have a say in
our learning and teaching.
Entitlements
All children will have access to a broad education which
takes account of individual’s needs (3-18).
The school will work with a range of agencies and
professionals to immerse the above.
Learning and teaching will be challenging and motivating.
Opportunities will be available especially to those who
require more choices and more chances.
Assessment
Principles
The principles will have a clear rationale surrounding
them and will be applied systematically across our
curriculum. This will include life and ethos of the
school and the wider community.
Interdisciplinary learning will include the principles.
All AifL strategies will be firmly embedded across learning
at all stages.
NAR will support our assessment procedures.
Tracking and monitoring of young people will be in place
with early intervention and support added where needed.
Children will have the opportunity to discuss progress and
help plan for next steps.
How will we get there ? 2012- 2013
Values
On October 2012 Inset Day Headteacher to deliver
GIRFEC presentation to all staff. This will ensure that the
GIRFEC agenda is firmly in place.
Totality of the Curriculum
Opening, levelling and grassing of ground at the rear of
the playground to facilitate allotment based on outdoor
learning.
Revise and remind all stakeholders of our values code and
refresh on a monthly basis at assembly.
Liaise with outside agencies to gain funding and support
for this project (e.g. TSC).
Continue with our commitment to ensure that our
children's safety and welfare is paramount in all aspects of
school life.
Maintain enterprise agenda across the school and
curriculum.
Year 1
Learning and Teaching
Streamline forward plan to condense paperwork and ‘free
up’ time for improving learning and teaching.
Continue training staff in cooperative learning.
Achievement booklets amended to become ‘Achievement
& Attainment’ booklets. Fortnightly assemblies to
celebrate ‘pure’ achievement set up.
Set up peer assessment timetable (across levels).
‘4 capacities’ assembly to be held once a month.
Set up process for pupils setting targets and profiling.
Experiences and Outcomes
See also ‘Principles’ section.
Responsible Citizens
Arrange ‘Meet the Teacher’ sessions.
Further develop Health & Wellbeing Experiences and
Outcomes, with a focus on tracking, monitoring and
progression.
Establish a mechanism to set up ‘home groups’ to
encourage learning across the curriculum and CfE levels.
Entitlements
Confident Individuals
Review provision for children and young people to access
a broad general education. LST to revise arrangements
for IEPs, LCMs and PSPs.
GIRFEC
Successful Learners
Effective Contributors
Plan a more ‘More Chances, More Choices’ programme of
after school acts. Set up and run a pilot.
Personal Support
Assessment
To engage children further in their own learning they will be
invited to be present at Parents’ Nights/ Reporting sessions.
Principles
Continue to train all staff in Restorative methods across the
school.
Concentrate on developing much more fully on the
principles ‘Personalisation & Choice’ and ‘Challenge &
Enjoyment’.
Continue to improve our transition processes, especially where
‘new staff’ are concerned i.e. moving from stage to stage.
Continue to try to improve our families’ lifestyles by reminding
them to consider better diet, more exercise and reduced alcohol
consumption through health topics etc.
Devise a clear rationale for each of the 7 key
Principles.
Piloting updated assessment paperwork format.
Refresh AifL strategies with support from the centre and consider
assessment examples of NAR to ensure it is firmly embedded at all
stages.
Continue using PIPs analysis.
Begin to (in term 3) use Seemis to record children’s progress and roll
out the profiling process.
Continue with the moderation process, beginning this session with
Maths. Carry out the moderation process writing (twice yearly).
How will we get there ? 2013 - 2014
Values
Continue with the GIRFEC model by ensuring all staff
members are fully aware of the process.
Totality of the Curriculum
Evaluate progress of establishment of allotment at the
back of the playground with a view to be cultivated by Eco
Committee.
Year 2
Learning and Teaching
Evaluate latest forward plan and amend as necessary.
Complete training of staff in Cooperative Learning.
Continue with maintenance agenda for Enterprise.
Send Achievement & Attainment booklets home once a
month.
Evaluate 4 capacities assembly and amend.
Continue peer assessment timetable (across levels).
Improve pupils’ target setting and roll out profiling.
Audit our resources and build in sorting time.
Experiences and Outcomes
See ‘Principles’ section.
Responsible Citizens
Confident Individuals
Further develop Sciences Experiences & Outcomes with a
focus on tracking, monitoring and progression.
Continue with ‘home group’ system.
Look again at the support of outside agencies and identify
the gaps in provisions for individuals.
GIRFEC
Successful Learners
Effective Contributors
Personal Support
Continue to encourage children to be present at parents’/ carers’ reporting
sessions.
Entitlements
Continue with the programme ‘Meet the Teacher’.
Evaluate its strengths and areas for development.
Principles
Continue after school acts to develop skills for life-long
learning and work, particularly aimed at children who
require more choice and more chances.
Assessment
Ensure that PIPs analysis is being fully utilised for the
purposes of assessment.
Continue to roll out SEEMIS.
Evaluate all transition processes.
Ensure we are still developing the Principles of
‘Challenge & Enjoyment’ and ‘Personalisation &
Choice’.
Continue with our Healthy Living project and ensure each class does at
least 1 health related topic per session.
Ensure the principles are being embedded in the
curriculum.
If funding continues, further roll out moderation
programme and begin on rolling at cluster moderation as
proposed at recent cluster meets.
Further roll out the Restorative methods and inform and consult with
parents and carers.
Seek definite advice from the Centre regarding use of sexual health
material.
Re-visit the anti-bullying policy and procedures documentation;
revise, update and re-issue to all stakeholders.
Set up moderation writing folder for each stage. One
imaginative and one functional piece per stage.
How will we get there ? 2014 - 2015
Values
Continue with the GIRFEC model as before.
Experiences and Outcomes
See ‘Principles’ section.
Totality of the Curriculum
Whole school involvement in allotment.
Learning and Teaching
Complete peer assessment across the levels.
Evaluate Enterprise programme and continue.
Fine tune pupils’ target setting and continue to roll out
profiling.
Responsible Citizens
Confident Individuals
Further develop Expressive Arts Experiences & Outcomes
with a focus on tracking, monitoring and progression.
Evaluate progress across all levels and identify areas for
further development and review.
Year 3
Ensure the support of outside agencies is completely
secure in all areas.
GIRFEC
Successful Learners
Entitlements
Continue evaluating our ‘More Choices, More Chances’
programme and further develop.
Effective Contributors
Fully imbed the ‘home group’ system.
Personal Support
Fully embed children being involved in parents’/ carers’
meetings.
Principles
Complete the development of the Principles.
To be a fully Restorative school.
Continue our ‘Healthy Living’ project.
Assessment
All assessment records will be shared electronically.
If funding continues, continue to roll out moderation
programme at cluster level.