Scottish Attainment Challenge: Live Narrative Project

Published 20/06/2018.  Last updated 11/04/2023
sourcePractice exemplars categoryScottish Attainment Challenge categoryAssessment categoryGaelic

​​​​​​This resource takes a ‘Live Narrative’ Approach. This approach has three principles:

  • ​​​Communication: There will be regular communications about the Live Narrative Project schools.
  • Collaboration: There will be opportunities provided for practitioners and school leaders to interact with the Live Narrative schools.
  • Review: These Live Narrative Exemplars will be reviewed and regularly updated providing updates on the school’s developing engagement with the Scottish Attainment Challenge.

How to use this exemplar

Each exemplar can be used to support professional dialogue within and between​ establishments around their own Scottish Attainment Challenge interventions​.

Improvement questions

  • What data was gathered prior to beginning our Scottish Attainment Challenge intervention?
  • How did this data inform our choice of intervention?
  • What subsequent data ​are we gathering to measure the effectiveness of our intervention?
  • What is our key focus in relation to the Scottish Attainment Challenge?​
  • How might we engage with these Live Narrative exemplars to challenge and influence our own on-going practice?

Explore this exemplar

What was done?​

Four schools will be followed throughout the period of Pupil Equity Funding. The developing story of how each school works to close the poverty-related attainment gap and raise attainment will be described. There will be opportunities for others to engage with the schools - in relation to their own Scottish Attainment Challenge interventions.

Why was it done?

Headteacher Focus Groups run by Education Scotland indicated a desire to have case studies provided which were interactive and collaborative and which were regularly refreshed. Headteachers expressed a wish to be able to ‘follow the story’ of individual schools and their engagement with the Scottish Attainment Challenge.​​

What was the impact?​

Four ​separate projects will be followed as part of the Live Narrative Approach. Each shows early promise of impact on raising attainment across a range of interventions.​​

Videos

Warout Primary School

See ​5 videos on YouTube playlist (see small menu at top right of video).​

​Lundavra Primary School

See ​3 videos on YouTube playlist (see small menu at top right of video)​.

Mosspark Primary School

Download(s)

Warout Primary School, Fife

Extending and enhancing vocabulary understanding and usage in oral and written responses. Partnership working with NHS Fife Speech and Language Therapy (SaLT) Services.​

​Lundavra Primary School, Highland

Establishment of an in-school Children's Services Worker working with children and families to enhance provision across a range of interventions.

Mosspark Primary School, Glasgow City

Using digital learning to raise whole school attainment in numeracy with a specific focus on Scottish index of multiple deprivation (SIMD) 1 and​ 2 learners.​

​E-Sgoil, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

E-Sgoil virtual learning approach to overcome barriers to learning across a range of local authorities and aspects of pedagogy​.

​Park Primary, Dumfries and Galloway

Raising attainment through individualised approaches with learners focused on aspects of readiness to learn and language development.​

Scottish Attainment Challenge: Live Narrative Project

Published 20/06/2018.  Last updated 11/04/2023
sourcePractice exemplars categoryScottish Attainment Challenge categoryAssessment categoryGaelic

​​​​​​This resource takes a ‘Live Narrative’ Approach. This approach has three principles:

  • ​​​Communication: There will be regular communications about the Live Narrative Project schools.
  • Collaboration: There will be opportunities provided for practitioners and school leaders to interact with the Live Narrative schools.
  • Review: These Live Narrative Exemplars will be reviewed and regularly updated providing updates on the school’s developing engagement with the Scottish Attainment Challenge.

How to use this exemplar

Each exemplar can be used to support professional dialogue within and between​ establishments around their own Scottish Attainment Challenge interventions​.

Improvement questions

  • What data was gathered prior to beginning our Scottish Attainment Challenge intervention?
  • How did this data inform our choice of intervention?
  • What subsequent data ​are we gathering to measure the effectiveness of our intervention?
  • What is our key focus in relation to the Scottish Attainment Challenge?​
  • How might we engage with these Live Narrative exemplars to challenge and influence our own on-going practice?

Explore this exemplar

What was done?​

Four schools will be followed throughout the period of Pupil Equity Funding. The developing story of how each school works to close the poverty-related attainment gap and raise attainment will be described. There will be opportunities for others to engage with the schools - in relation to their own Scottish Attainment Challenge interventions.

Why was it done?

Headteacher Focus Groups run by Education Scotland indicated a desire to have case studies provided which were interactive and collaborative and which were regularly refreshed. Headteachers expressed a wish to be able to ‘follow the story’ of individual schools and their engagement with the Scottish Attainment Challenge.​​

What was the impact?​

Four ​separate projects will be followed as part of the Live Narrative Approach. Each shows early promise of impact on raising attainment across a range of interventions.​​

Videos

Warout Primary School

See ​5 videos on YouTube playlist (see small menu at top right of video).​

​Lundavra Primary School

See ​3 videos on YouTube playlist (see small menu at top right of video)​.

Mosspark Primary School

Download(s)

Warout Primary School, Fife

Extending and enhancing vocabulary understanding and usage in oral and written responses. Partnership working with NHS Fife Speech and Language Therapy (SaLT) Services.​

​Lundavra Primary School, Highland

Establishment of an in-school Children's Services Worker working with children and families to enhance provision across a range of interventions.

Mosspark Primary School, Glasgow City

Using digital learning to raise whole school attainment in numeracy with a specific focus on Scottish index of multiple deprivation (SIMD) 1 and​ 2 learners.​

​E-Sgoil, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

E-Sgoil virtual learning approach to overcome barriers to learning across a range of local authorities and aspects of pedagogy​.

​Park Primary, Dumfries and Galloway

Raising attainment through individualised approaches with learners focused on aspects of readiness to learn and language development.​