Education Scotland
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About Education Scotland
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What we do
- Ensuring the impact of Scotland’s Curriculum
- Delivering the Scottish Attainment Challenge
- Developing creativity, employability and skills
- Embedding inclusion, wellbeing and equality
- Implementing the National Improvement Framework (NIF)
- Supporting Community Learning and Development
- Promoting digital learning and teaching
- Professional learning and leadership
- Advice and support to government
- Supporting Regional Improvement
- Food for Thought Education Fund 2023 - 2024
- Current vacancies
- Education Scotland Leadership Team
- Non-Executive Board Members (NEBM)
- The Education Scotland Framework
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Policies and information
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Education Policy and Legislation
- Getting It Right For Every Child
- Local authority role and duties
- Developing the education profession
- Legislation
- Better relationships, better learning, better behaviour
- Funding Follows the Child and the National Standard for Early Learning and Childcare providers: Principles and practice
- A National Response to Improving Mathematics (NRIM) in Scotland
- Curriculum for Excellence Implementation
- Child Protection and Safeguarding
- Equality and Diversity
- Freedom of Information
- Records Management
- Complaints
- Procurement
- Corporate Parenting
- Estates strategy
- Education Scotland Young People's Strategic Panel (2022)
- Data Protection
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Education Policy and Legislation
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Planning and reporting
- Annual Programme of Scrutiny 2023 to 2024
- Annual Programme of Scrutiny 2022 to 2023
- Annual Programme of Scrutiny 2021 to 2022
- Minutes and Agendas
- Annual review
- Environmental and biodiversity duty reporting
- Community Asset Transfer
- Corporate and business planning
- Regional Directorate RIC plans
- Annual reports and accounts
- Registrar of Independent Schools
- Education Scotland Associate (ESA)
- Employee survey
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What we do
- Contact us
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News
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Events
- Learning in Scotland
- Curriculum for Excellence
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Inspection and Review
- Find an inspection report
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What we do and how we do it
- About inspection and review
- International links
- Inspection myths
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Standards and evaluation framework
- What do we focus on during inspection and review?
- How does inspection and review support improvement?
- What do we inspect?
- How often do we inspect?
- Evaluating quality and improvement in Scottish education
- What do we expect of staff and stakeholders?
- Comments, compliments or complaints
- How do teams conduct themselves during inspection and review?
- What is the legal basis for inspection and review?
- How we ensure our approaches to inspection and review are of a high quality?
- School consultations
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HM Chief Inspector reports and guidance
- Introduction to HM Chief Inspector Report
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National Thematic Inspections
- National Review: Approaches to recording and monitoring incidents of bullying in schools
- Responsive, supportive and resilient communities September 2022
- Local approaches to recovery: a thematic review
- Health and wellbeing: a thematic review
- Successful Approaches to Learning Outdoors
- Engaging families in learning – A thematic inspection of family learning
- Modern Apprenticeship reports
- Assessment within the broad general education: a thematic inspection
- Multiplying skills, adding value - Numeracy and mathematics for Scotland's learners: a thematic inspection
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Thematic reports up to and including June 2019
- Creative Place review
- Development Trust reviews
- National thematic inspection: empowerment for curriculum leadership
- National thematic inspection: empowerment for parent and pupil participation
- National thematic inspection: readiness for empowerment
- Neighbourhood review
- Thematic inspection of personal and social education (PSE) and health and wellbeing
- Thematic review
- Reports from the States of Guernsey Education Department
- School and ELC inspection findings
- Other inspection findings
- Sharing Highly Effective Practice
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Inspection and review guidance
- Inspection Advice Note – June 2022
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School and ELC
- Approaches to inspection from August 2016
- Early learning and childcare inspections
- Primary school inspections
- Secondary school inspections
- All-through school inspections
- Arrangements for inspecting Gaelic Education
- Arrangements for inspecting special schools
- Residential special school inspections
- Independent school inspections
- Inspection of progress in improving learning, raising attainment and closing the poverty-related gap
- Health and Nutrition Inspections
- Arrangements for inspecting independent special schools and grant-aided schools
- Other sectors
- Gaelic Sector
- Inspection Frameworks
- Professional Learning
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Parentzone Scotland
- BSL
- My child
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Curriculum in Scotland
- Curriculum areas
- About the 3-18 curriculum
- Curriculum levels
- Learning in the early years
- Broad general education
- Senior phase
- Post-16 opportunities
- Assessment and achievement
- Assessment in the Senior Phase
- Developing the Young Workforce
- National Improvement Framework
- Scottish Attainment Challenge
- Pupil Equity Funding
- National Improvement Framework Evidence Report
- An empowered system
- Young Leaders of Learning Programme - Information for Parents and Carers
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Learning at home
- Supporting children with additional support needs
- Supporting health and wellbeing
- Supporting gender balance and equality
- Supporting language learning at home
- Supporting literacy at home
- Supporting numeracy at home
- Supporting religious and moral education
- Supporting science, technologies, engineering and mathematics (STEM) at home
- Parents who do not live together
- Gaelic Medium Education: Support your child’s learning – simple tips in Gaelic and English
- Supporting study
- Learning through play
- Home learning environment
- Schemas: learning through play
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Gaelic Medium Education: Activities to support fluency development
- Sit less, walk more, speak Gaelic – early years to secondary
- Become a nature detective – early years, primary and secondary
- Heroes - early years, primary and secondary
- Favourite places - early years, primary and secondary
- Character friends - early, primary and secondary
- Songs and rhymes – sgoil àraich, primary and secondary
- Just words - early years and primary
- Create a reading den - early years and primary
- Doodle fun - early years and primary
- Making faces - early years and primary
- Let’s create a game - early years and primary
- A few of my favourite things - early years and primary
- The entertainer - early years and primary
- Looking for Gaelic texts in our homes - early years, primary and secondary
- Our community – early years, primary and secondary
- Reading is fun – early years, primary and secondary
- Planning my day to develop my fluency in Gaelic - early years to secondary
- Our community - early years to secondary
- Our community – early years, primary and secondary (2)
- Going on a bear hunt - primary
- Photo challenge - primary
- Attending events - early years, primary and secondary
- Fitness fun - primary
- Blended learning
- My school
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Additional support
- What are additional support needs?
- Identifying needs and getting support
- Specific support needs
- How schools plan support
- Supporting children with additional support needs
- The Additional Support for Learning Act
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Getting involved
- Ways of getting involved
- Parent Councils
- The school parent forum
- National Parent Forum of Scotland
- Scottish Schools (Parental Involvement) Act
- Connect
- Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme
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Sharing ideas
- Learn with Fred - Dundee family literacies project
- Bridging the gap at Bannockburn High School
- A change of culture at Denny High School
- An appetite for learning at Bellshill Academy
- Family learning - Science, Glasgow Clyde College
- Working with ESOL parents through storytelling
- Communicating with parents at Alloa Academy
- Parentzone Scotland poster and postcard
- News
- Resources
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Resource Themes
- Assessment
- Creativity
- Curriculum for Excellence (CfE)
- Developing the Young Workforce
- Digital Learning and Teaching
- Gaelic
- Getting It Right For Every Child (GIRFEC)
- Improving Gender Balance and Equalities
- Inclusion Wellbeing and Equality
- Inspection and review
- Leadership
- Learning for Sustainability (LfS)
- Outdoor learning
- Parents and families
- School Improvement
- Scottish Attainment Challenge
- STEM
- Gaelic
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