Education Resources

Curriculum and Quality Improvement Service

Establishment Improvement Plan

2016 - 2017

Kear Campus

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Education Resources

Curriculum and Quality Improvement Service

Contents

  1. Establishment 3 Year Improvement Plan Overview
  1. Establishment Strategic Improvement Plan
  1. Establishment Operational Improvement Plan (Action Plan)
  1. Establishment Maintenance Plan

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Overview of Kear Campus’3 Year Cycle of Improvement Plan Priorities Sessions: 2015 - 2018

National Improvement Framework Key Priorities
  • Improvement in attainment, particularly in literacy and numeracy;
  • Closing the attainment gap between the most and least disadvantaged children;
  • Improvement in children and young people’s health and wellbeing; and
  • Improvement in employability skills and sustained positive school leaver destinations for all young people.

National Improvement Framework Key Drivers / HGIOS 4 and Early Learning and Childcare Indicators / SLC Education Resources Themes
  • School leadership
  • Teacher professionalism
  • Parental engagement
  • Assessment of children’s progress
  • School improvement
  • Performance information
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  • 1.1 Self Evaluation for self-improvement
  • 1.2 Leadership for learning
  • 1.3 Leadership of change
  • 1.4 Leadership and management of staff
  • 1.5 Management of resources to promote equity
  • 2.1 Safeguarding and child protection
  • 2.2 Curriculum
  • 2.3 Learning teaching and assessment
  • 2.4 Personalised support
  • 2.5 Family learning
  • 2.6 Transitions
  • 2.7 Partnership
  • 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion
  • 3.2 Raising attainment and achievement/Securing children’s progress
  • 3.3 Increasing creativity and employability/ Developing creativity and skills for life and learning
/ Transforming Learning and
Teaching
Implementing Curriculum for Excellence
Meeting the Needs of all Learners’,
GIRFEC and Statutory Duties
Skills for Learning, Life and Work
Professional Learning
Leadership(Change and Improvement)
Strategic Priorities 3 Year Cycle
  1. Maximising inclusion, involvement and engagement of vulnerable learners
  1. Maximising achievement and attainment of vulnerable learners
  1. Working together to meet the needs of vulnerable learners

Strategic Improvement Planning for Kear CampusSession: 2016 – 2017

Strategic Priority / Intended Impact / How it will be Measured / Actual Impact
  1. Maximising inclusion, involvement and engagement of vulnerable learners
/ Vulnerable pupils are engaging positively with their education /
  • Attendance & exclusion data
  • Engagement (using Leuven Scale of Engagement)
  • Classroom observations
  • Questionnaires / interviews
  • Review process
  • Tracking & monitoring process

  1. Maximising achievement and attainment of vulnerable learners
/ Throughambitious planning, vulnerable pupils are attaining and achieving a range of planned outcomes /
  • SQA / CfE attainment and wider achievement data
  • Review process
  • Didbook

  1. Working together to meet the needs of vulnerable learners
/ Learners, staff, parents and partners experience increased involvement in the life and work of Kear Campus /
  • Attendance and engagement at planned events: parents eve’s, parent support groups, partner events etc
  • Event evaluations
  • Questionnaires / interviews

Operational Improvement Planning for Kear CampusSession: 2016 - 2017

Strategic Priority 1: Maximising inclusion, involvement and engagement of vulnerable learners

Action Plan 1: ATTACHMENT

LEAD PERSON: Kirsty Brown

ACTIONS / TIMESCALE / RESOURCES
  1. The attachment toolbox pilot project / consultation is concluded and identified improvements are made the resource before its publication in October 2017
  1. Attachment lead practitioners ensure that all staff have access to the attachment toolbox and promote its use when planning and reviewing placements.
  1. Attachment lead practitioners support staff to embed attachment informed strategies using a coaching approach.
  1. All bases in Kear Campus have the principles of an attachment informed school displayed in the staff area along with a spotlight on interventions.
  1. Electronic support for attachment informed practice can be accessed using GLOW / Website.
  1. Regular focus groups monitor and review the implementation of attachment aware approaches across Kear Campus.
  1. Literacy is recognised to be at the heart of an attachment aware school and the working group focus on strengthening links between literacy resources (film, novels) to attachment experiences.
/ May 2016 – October 2016
August 2016 –March 2017
August 2016 –March 2017
By September 2016
By October 2016
October and December 2016
January and March 2017
August 2016 –March 2017

Operational Improvement Planning for Kear CampusSession: 2016 - 2017

Strategic Priority 1: Maximising inclusion, involvement and engagement of vulnerable learners

Action Plan 2: RIGHTS BASED LEARNING

LEAD PERSON: Tamsin Graham

ACTIONS / TIMESCALE / RESOURCES
  1. Teachers across Kear Campus delivering lessons on Rights Based Learning as part of Health and Wellbeing taught programme
  1. Each area of Kear Campus has a ’Rights based learning’ display, including charter(s) which is visible to all staff, pupils and visitors
  1. Inform parents / carers and other partners about our implementation of Rights Based Learning
/ Ongoing
By December 2016
Ongoing /
  • SLC Pack: ‘Making Rights Real’
  • Time within Health & Wellbeing programme to deliver lessons (3 x 40 min sessions)
  • SLC Pack: ‘Making Rights Real’
  • Time to consult staff and pupils (e.g. pupil council meetings / HWB lessons / other curriculum time)
  • Display materials
  • SLC Pack: ‘Making Rights Real’
  • Time at e.g. review meetings, parents evenings, partnership forums

Operational Improvement Planning (Action Plan) for Kear CampusSession: 2016 - 2017

Strategic Priority 1: Maximising inclusion, involvement and engagement of vulnerable learners

Action Plan 3: SUSTAINABILITY & DEVELOPMENT

LEAD PERSON: Catriona Campbell

ACTIONS / TIMESCALE / RESOURCES
  1. Establish Campus-wide Eco-Committee splitting into with sub-committees across the provision
  1. Audit previous work completed across campus in relation to outdoor learning and sustainability
  1. Draw up whole campus Eco-plan, selecting three topics from the Eco Schools programme
  1. Develop individual Eco-plans for each area covering identified topics
  1. Monitor actions and evaluate progress in promoting sustainability
  1. Embed Eco Schools in curriculum planning to involve whole campus and develop ways to involve the wider community
  1. Investigate and apply for funding opportunities to promote sustainability
/ Sept 16
Sept 16
Sept 16
Ongoing from Sept 16
Ongoing from Sept 16
Ongoing from Sept 16
June 16 /
  • Liaison time, timetabled access for pupils
  • Audit questionnaire (PT/DHT)
  • Quality assurance calendar
  • Funding applications

Operational Improvement Planning (Action Plan) for Kear CampusSession: 2016 - 2017

Strategic Priority 2: Maximising achievement and attainment of vulnerable learners

Action Plan 1: LITERACY

LEAD PERSON:

ACTIONS / TIMESCALE / RESOURCES
  1. To create a literacy strategy for Kear Campus
  1. To ensure all Kear pupils have a baseline assessment of their literacy skills at the beginning of their placement and for this to be followed up with robust and systematic tracking of progress through at least 6 monthly or annual re-testing
  1. To ensure that any pupils with literacy gaps (e.g. between their reading / spelling ages and their chronological age) have a targeted intervention to support their literacy development
  1. To ensure all Kear locations are adequately resourced with a range of materials specifically designed to develop basic literacy skills across a range of levels
  1. All Kear staff to engage in a professional learning experience in relation to teaching early reading skills and / or teaching literacy across the curriculum
See also Attachment action plan and Curriculum Planning, Assessment and Tracking & Monitoring action plan / Ongoing
Autumn term 2016 (ongoing for some)
Autumn term 2016 (ongoing for some)
By December 2016 (ongoing for some)
By April 2017 /
  • Working Group time
  • Tests e.g. Aston Index
  • Time and staff to carry out tests
  • Time and staff to provide targeted intervention
  • Funding (Closing the gap bid)
  • Funding (Closing the gap bid)
  • INSET time
  • Working Group time

Operational Improvement Planning (Action Plan) for Kear CampusSession: 2016 - 2017

Strategic Priority 2: Maximising achievement and attainment of vulnerable learners

Action Plan 2: HEALTH AND WELLBEING

LEAD PERSON: Tamsin Graham

ACTIONS / TIMESCALE / RESOURCES
  1. Increase pupil awareness of wellbeing through:
  • all pupils experiencing delivery of lessons which explore wellbeing generally, including the SHANARRI indicators
  • reference to wellbeing in wider Kear environment e.g. wall displays in classrooms, termly GIRFEC focus (linked to Kear curriculum rationale) etc
  1. Continue to implement The Scottish Government’s Play Strategy through:
  • ongoing work with families
  • play policy for Kear Campus
  • professional learning opportunities for all Kear staff in relation to play
  1. Ensure most Kear pupils attain the SQA Wellbeing Award as part of their senior phase experience
  1. Establish a bank of health & wellbeing resources which support the delivery of structured PSE courses across Kear Campus
  1. Continue to provide relevant professional learning opportunities for staff in relation to health & wellbeing (see also Partnership action plan)
/ Ongoing – by June 2017
Autumn 2016
Ongoing throughout 2016 – 2017
By December 2016
By June 2017
Ongoing throughout 2016 – 2017
Ongoing throughout 2016 – 2017 /
  • HWB resource bank
  • Display space / materials
  • Scottish Government Play Strategy
  • Time / staff to work with families
  • Working group time
Liaison time
  • Time to deliver award
  • Liaison time / INSET
Time with partners

Operational Improvement Planning (Action Plan) for Kear CampusSession: 2016 - 2017

Strategic Priority 2: Maximising achievement and attainment of vulnerable learners

Action Plan 3: CURRICULUM, ASSESSMENT AND TRACKING & MONITORING

LEAD PERSON: Yvonne Wright

ACTIONS / TIMESCALE / RESOURCES
Curriculum Planning
  1. The revised Curriculum Rationale will be embedded into the planning and delivery of the curriculum
Assessment
  1. A consultation process will take placeregarding assessment
  1. Assessment actions plans will be agreed for each area of the provision
  1. Baseline learning profiles will be produced for all pupils as soon as is practical after admission
Tracking and Monitoring
  1. Monitoring and tracking procedures will be further developed for BGE and senior phase courses.
  1. Reporting procedures will be reviewed across the provision
/ August 16
September 16
August 16
Ongoing
Ongoing
Ongoing /
  • All staff
  • Team meetings
  • Team meetings
  • Identified staff
  • Staff teams
  • Staff teams

Operational Improvement Planning (Action Plan) for Kear CampusSession: 2016 - 2017

Strategic Priority 2: Maximising achievement and attainment of vulnerable learners

Action Plan 4: DIDBOOK

LEAD PERSON: Tamsin Graham

ACTIONS / TIMESCALE / RESOURCES
  1. Pupils across Kear Campus begin using didbook to record achievements, skills etc
  1. Staff across Kear Campus making comments on their pupils’ didbooks on a regular basis
  1. Inform parents / carers and other partners about our implementation of didbook
/ Ongoing
Ongoing
Ongoing /
  • Curriculum time for pupils to input information on Didbook
  • Planning and preparation time
  • Time at e.g. review meetings, parents evenings, partnership forums

Operational Improvement Planning (Action Plan) for Kear CampusSession: 2016 - 2017

Strategic Priority 2: Maximising achievement and attainment of vulnerable learners

Action Plan 5: BUILDING LEARNING POWER

LEAD PERSON: Andy Thompson

ACTIONS / TIMESCALE / RESOURCES
  1. All staff will have an opportunity to engage in professional learning and coaching led by ‘Learning Champions’. This develops leadership opportunities in the staff team and also develops a coaching model to support sustainable development
  1. ‘Learning Champions’ will support staff to work with learners in promoting metacognitive learning strategies, embed a ‘learning to learn’ culture and innovative teaching and learning approaches
  1. Through discussion of reflective journals with their ‘Learning Champion Coach’, staff members will have an opportunity to discuss strategies and approaches. Pupils will engage in semi-structured interviews, keeping learning journals and engage in the coaching progress to evaluate and discussthe impact of the initiative.
/ By Oct ‘16
By Dec ‘16
By April ‘17 /
  • BLP toolbox, BLP Working Group time, whole campus meetings
  • BLP group, all staff, working group time, Whole campus meetings
  • BLP champions, all staff.

Operational Improvement Planning (Action Plan) for Kear CampusSession: 2016 - 2017

Strategic Priority 2: Maximising achievement and attainment of vulnerable learners

Action Plan 6: SKILLS FOR LEARNING, LIFE AND WORK

LEAD PERSON:

ACTIONS / TIMESCALE / RESOURCES
  1. Staff will receive training on ‘Developing the Young Workforce’ programme and how it relates to the Kear Campus revised curriculum rationale
  1. Each area of the provision will evidence ‘world of work’ related activities within the curriculum.
  1. A whole Campus audit will take place of the entitlements and expectations in the career Education Standard
/ Autumn term 16
Autumn term 16
Summer term 16 /
  • I whole staff meeting
  • Team meeting
  • Time and staff to gather information

Operational Improvement Planning (Action Plan) for Kear CampusSession: 2016 - 2017

Strategic Priority 3:Working together to meet the needs of vulnerable learners

Action Plan 1: PARTNERSHIPS

LEAD PERSON: Yvonne Wright

ACTIONS / TIMESCALE / RESOURCES
  1. Further develop the ‘Big Partnership Breakfast’ forum
  1. Have in place a range of planned opportunities for parental engagement across the provision
  1. Review our methods of communication with parents/carers
  1. Continue to build partnerships with schools via offering training on positive behaviour support
  1. Continue to develop partnerships with a range of agencies who can provide information and support for young people and parents
  1. Build on existing links with employers and training providers to facilitate increased opportunities for pupil work experience and placements
  1. Improve communication with partners through the development of a Kear Campus website
/ August 16
Ongoing
By December 16
Ongoing
Ongoing
Ongoing
Ongoing /
  • SMT and partners
  • CFSW team
  • SMT
  • SMT
  • CFSW
  • Employability lead
  • Possible requirement of additional funds

Establishment Maintenance Improvement PlanningSession:2016 / 2017

National Improvement Framework Key Priorities
  • Improvement in attainment, particularly in literacy and numeracy;
  • Closing the attainment gap between the most and least disadvantaged children;
  • Improvement in children and young people’s health and wellbeing; and
  • Improvement in employability skills and sustained positive school leaver destinations for all young people.

National Improvement Framework Key Drivers / HGIOS 4 and Early Learning and Childcare Indicators / SLC Education Resources Themes
  • School leadership
  • Teacher professionalism
  • Parental engagement
  • Assessment of children’s progress
  • School improvement
  • Performance information
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  • 1.1 Self Evaluation for self-improvement
  • 1.2 Leadership for learning
  • 1.3 Leadership of change
  • 1.4 Leadership and management of staff
  • 1.5 Management of resources to promote equity
  • 2.1 Safeguarding and child protection
  • 2.2 Curriculum
  • 2.3 Learning teaching and assessment
  • 2.4 Personalised support
  • 2.5 Family learning
  • 2.6 Transitions
  • 2.7 Partnership
  • 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion
  • 3.2 Raising attainment and achievement/Securing children’s progress
  • 3.3 Increasing creativity and employability/ Developing creativity and skills for life and learning
/ Transform Learning and
Teaching/Implement CfE
Meeting the Needs of all Learners’,
GIRFEC and Statutory Duties
Skills for Learning, Life and Work
Professional Learning
Leadership(Change and Improvement)
Key Actions

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