Aspirational actions

All children at Gore Glen Primary School will show a 0.4 or greater effect size in the core learning areas and exhibit the characteristics of an assessment-capable learner who uses a growth mindset to embrace challenge, in partnerships with inspired and passionate adults throughout the whole school community.
Through:
  • An inclusive ethos where everyone is valued and every voice is heard.
  • Inclusion and equity for all.
  • Partnership working with families and local community.
  • Assessment-capable learners.
  • Inspired and passionate adults.
  • Transformational leaders across our school community.
Outcome:
- A united community working together to ensure every child soars beyond his/her full potential.
- All children engaged in and enthusiastic about excellent learning experiences and opportunities whilst becoming increasingly ready for the workplace.

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2016-2017 Year Plan

Our chosen action:

All children at Gore Glen Primary School will show a 0.4 or greater effect size in the core learning areas and exhibit the characteristics of an assessment-capable learner who uses a growth mindset to embrace challenge, in partnerships with inspired and passionate adults throughout the whole school community.

Task / Personnel / Timescale / Progress Checks
Ethos
  • Create Vision, Values and Aims as agreed by whole school community
  • Create Action Plan for implementation of Rights Respecting School
  • Agree, plan and create behaviour policy with whole school community
  • Create Action Plan for implementation of Coaching approach
  • Create Action Plan for implementation of Early Years model
  • Agree range of collaborative learning and teaching opportunities and plan these within school calendar
  • Agree and plan monitoring calendar to include peer observations, walkthroughs and learning communities
  • Create a whole school learning community to develop partnership working with families
/ School community led by PM
Led by Julie Unrau
School community led by PM
Led by Kim McIntyre
Led by Nina Armstrong and Kim McIntyre
All staff led by PM
All staff led by PM
Whole school community led initially by PM / August 2016
Aug – Sept 2016
August 2016
Oct - Dec 2016
Aug – Oct 2016
September 2016
September 2016
Aug – Oct 2016
Task / Personnel / Timescale / Progress Checks
Community and Partnerships
  • HTs within Learning Community create Action Plan and protect diary dates for CAT sessions across Learning Community
  • Staff within Gore Glen PS organise stage meetings across Newbattle Learning Community
  • Implement communication tools preferred by families during transition meetings
- Class Dojo (forms part of Behaviour Policy)
- online journals (tracking within Learning and Teaching)
- website
- twitter
- email database
  • Agree dates and content for BOAT days throughout year
  • Create calendar for learning events to engage families in children’s learning
  • Identify areas of development for learning partnerships, invite notes of interest and agree dates for meetings
  • Agree, create and implement tracking and assessing policy to include ongoing reporting and online journals
  • Identify professional reading and focus areas within SDP – L&T for learning discussions, include in calendar and invite notes of interest
  • Agree methods of involving parents in school community eg, coffee mornings, drop in sessions and plan for events, adding each to diary
  • Create wellbeing calendar for staff in school and across Newbattle Learning Community
  • Create Healthy School programme working in partnership with catering, NHS, Outdoor Learning, Forest Schools, Active Schools, local ranger and local facilities eg, Rhyz
  • In order to increase children’s readiness for the workplace establish partnership working with:
- Scotrail
- Gorebridge Community Development Trust
- Historic Scotland
- Lifelong Learning and Employability
- local businesses and industrial estates / HTs across Newbattle Learning Community
PT, class teachers and SCDW
All staff led by PM
All staff led by PM
Teaching staff led by PM
PM
Admin Assistant
All staff
All staff
All staff and Parent Council
All staff
All staff and Parent Council
All staff and Parent Forum
Led by PM
Led by PM
Led by PM / June – Sept 2016
Aug – Sept 2016
Aug – Sept 2016
Sept – Dec 2016
June – Aug 2016
June – Aug 2016
Sept – Oct 2016
Sept – Oct 2016
August 2016
Aug – Oct 2016
Oct – Dec 2016
Oct – Dec 2016
Aug – Sept 2016
August 2016
Aug – Sept 2016
Aug 2016 – Feb 2017
Task / Personnel / Timescale / Progress Checks
Learning and Teaching
  • Create a Visible Learning programme over 3 years, to include Language of Learning, dispositions, growth mindset and feedback in Year 1
  • Create an ABLe school working closely with Educational Psychologists in Midlothian and Dundee, including ‘one size fits one’ model
  • Develop Early Years model to include play based on Vygotsky?Piaget?
  • Plan and implement 1+2 Modern Languages programme across school
  • Raising attainment in Literacy so that every child achieves 0.4 or greater effect size:
- introduce cursive handwriting for all children and create handwriting and presentation policy
- embed principles of Big Writing across the curriculum
- embed principles of Reciprocal Reading and Marie Clay’s Reading Recovery to
reading for meaning and decoding vocabulary
- develop library skills within all children and provide opportunities for
children to read for enjoyment and choice
- create Listening and Talking programme to include discreet development of
skills and application across the curriculum
  • Raising attainment in Mathematics so that every child achieves 0.4 or greater effect size:
- embed SEAL within MUMP across school
- create opportunities for children to link Numeracy and Mathematics on a
daily basis in real life situations to transfer skills across contexts
- develop a problem solving approach within Mathematics and Numeracy
  • Create a consistent approach to planning, tracking, moderation, monitoring and assessment across and involving whole school community
  • Create a self-evaluation programme engaging with NIF and HGIOS for indicators of progress
/ Led by Julie Unrau, Aimee Ferguson and PM
Led by Sam Smith, Laura Christian and PM
Led by KMcI, NA and PM
Led by Pauline Marr
Led by Pauline Marr
Led by Julie Unrau
Led by Pauline Marr
Led by ASN CT
Led by Sam Smith & ASN CT
Led by Kim McIntyre & PM
Led by Pauline Marr
All staff
Whole school community led by PM
Whole school community led by PM / Sept – Dec 2016
Sept ‘16 – March ‘17
Sept – Dec 2016
Oct ’16 – Mar ‘17
Aug – Sept 2016
Aug – Dec 2016
Jan – Apr 2017
Oct – Dec 2016
Jan – Apr 2017
Sept ’16 - Apr ‘17
Oct ’16 – Apr ‘17
Jan – Apr 2017
Aug ’16 – May ‘17
Aug ’16 – May ‘17
Task / Personnel / Timescale / Progress Checks
Leadership
  • Explore Professional Update and how this impacts on practitioner
  • Use Practitioner Enquiry to impact positively on learning and teaching, sharing enquiry and findings with whole school community
  • Children, parents and staff identify areas of interest to develop across school
  • Agree whole school approach to PR&D and Competency Framework to include a supportive approach using a coaching partner
  • Agree whole school approach to ensuring PR&D and Competency Framework objectives link with CLPL opportunities
  • Individual Parent council members engage with various aspects of learning and teaching and feed back to council during monthly meetings
  • Children lead and develop parliament groups of interest to them and relevant to School Development Plan, facilitated by adult
  • Children develop leadership roles as part of Visible Learning approach and fluid learning environment
/ All teaching staff
All teaching staff
Whole school community led by PM
All staff led by Kim McIntyre and PM
All staff led by PM
Parent Council and PM
Children and staff
Children JU, AF and PM / Aug – Oct 2016
Jan – May 2017
Sept ’16 – May ‘17
Sept – Oct 2016
Sept – Oct 2016
Jan – May 2017
Sept 2016 onwards
Sept 2016 onwards

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