Pupil Equity Funding Kathryn Paterson, CYPIC Improvement Advisor, Scottish Government

1. Pupil Equity Funding Kathryn Paterson, CYPIC Improvement Advisor, Scottish Government Bill Scott-Watson, Acting Head, Scottish Attainment Challenge Policy Unit, Scottish Government

2. Breakout Norms • All Teach All Learn • Open and Safe Environment • Parking Lot • Have fun

3. Breakout Objectives • Gain an increased understanding of Pupil Equity Funding and learn more about the policy itself • Opportunity to hear from teams who have been using improvement methodology to support their PEF related work • Opportunity to discuss how improvement methodology could support on-going PEF related work

4. How We’ll Spend Our Time • Policy Presentation • Local Authority Presentation • Q&A • Group Discussion

5. Bill Scott-Watson Acting Head, Scottish Attainment Challenge Policy Unit

6. The Attainment Challenge and Attainment Scotland Fund – 2017-18 £120m Pupil Equity Funding A small number of nationally funded programmes which support the Scottish Attainment Challenge, including teacher recruitment, professional learning, supporting aspirations. £5m National Programmes £45m Challenge Authorities and Schools Programme HealthandWellbeing Literacy Targeted specific and additional interventions to narrow the inequity gap in the 9 Challenge Authorities and 74 schools with the highest concentrations of pupils living in areas of multiple deprivation Funding support to all schools with P1-S3 pupils from low income families (95% of schools) Numeracy

7. Pupil Equity Funding

8. Pupil Equity Funding – key principles / expectations for headteachers • PEF must be additional to existing activities • Targeted interventions – funding is to close poverty related attainment gap • Clear, evidenced-based rationale for plans and activities • Partnership working – with LA, other schools, 3rd sector etc. • Parents and carers, children and young people and other key stakeholders engaged in the planning process • Plans from the outset to evaluate impact • Existing school improvement planning and reporting procedures

9. Implementing PEF An MFI Approach Sarah Else

10. National Picture

11. Fife

12. HGiOS 4 The virtuous cycle of improvement (see Figure 1) illustrates the key features of evidence-based self-improvement at school and at system-wide levels. This virtuous cycle is relevant to all sectors of education. Working with the virtuous cycle will help you to understand the importance of regular and rigorous evidence-based internal and external evaluation to inform further improvement. The Model for Improvement provides a framework for teams addressing improvement.

13. Learning from SAC schools • Struggled with being clear about what they were doing • Baselines • Outcomes • Measures • How they would know • Evidence

14. How can MFI help with PEF? • Clear aim – need to identify what we want to achieve • Change ideas – what we’ve always done isn’t working so need to be creative • Measures – identified from aim, what does better look like? • Testing – aim big, start small – less risk • Learn from what you are doing, not waiting until the end

15. Quantitative Qualitative

16. Workforce Development

17. Group Discussion Questions • How are you monitoring and evaluating your Pupil Equity Funding work? • How comfortable are you in using improvement methodology to inform your on-going Pupil Equity Funding related work? • What further support might you need to incorporate improvement methodology into your work?

18. Thankyou!