Our Shared Ambition

1. Raising Attainment For AllBuilding on the work of EYC to achieve improved outcomes in education attainment Susan Hannah

2. “Scotland should be the best place to go to school. We want each child to enjoy an education that encourages them to be the most successful they can be and provides them with a full passport to future opportunity”

3. Our Shared Ambition To raise attainment: consistently over an agreed period, promoting greater depth and breadth of attainment and achievement and improving the educational outcomes of all our children and young people To progressively reduce inequity in educational outcomes: consistently over an agreed period, to make progress in eroding the deeply embedded correlation found in the majority of Scottish schools between a child’s relative point of social deprivation/affluence and their educational attainment. To improve the public and parents’ confidence in continuous improvement of Scotland’s education system.

5. Raising Attainment For All (8 years to 18 years) Theory of actions that will enable children and young people to achieve Our Vision: Scotland should be the best place to go to school. We want each child to enjoy an education that encourages them to be the most successful they can be and provides them with a full passport to future opportunity Aims: Literacy, Numeracy, Health and Wellbeing 8 – 11 yrs & transition 11 – 14 yrs Senior Phase CfE levels Improved teamwork, communication and collaboration Transformational Leadership School learning environment which supports the individual needs of all children Culture for change and improvement QI team discussions High quality learning and teaching To raise education attainment for all and reduce inequity Enhanced coaching skills High Quality, Skilled Workforce Coaching /mentoring interventions Positive physical, mental, cognitive health and emotional development for all children and young people Individual Support for children Pedagogy Universal Support for learning Study support skills for parents Co-produced planning/decision making Availability & access to services Parents, carers, families engaged with their child’s learning and involved in supporting their learning and development Sharing of information Nurture groups Positive aspirations of children & young people Increased engagement with partner agencies Supportive home school partnerships Improved communication between school and home Encouraging home learning environment Communities engaged in supporting opportunitiesfor learning and development of children and young people Developed parental skills & strategies to support learning Transition communication Partnerships between Schools, FE, training, HE & Employers Improved planning Understanding of local context of achievement gap Engaged community enterprises / community assets / third sector

6. What We Will Do? • 12 local authorities keen to engage as early adopters to apply improvement methodology to address attainment and equity • IA support to work with clusters of schools and support improvement activity • Capacity and Capability for local improvement • Opportunity for other LAs to join later • Local spread supported as improvement C&C builds

7. No Surprises….. • Recognised variety and impact of improvement efforts in education • Vast evidence of what can deliver improvement in attainment while reducing the equity gap • The Raising Attainment For All programme provides a method to support the implementation and spread of successful improvement activity