2008/9

Taking Action to Insure Impact

• Staff and pupils feel better equipped to recognise and describe own and others' feelings.

• Learners more emotionally literate and aware of clear pathways for their future developments.

• Increased quality time for pupils to check-in and out daily ensuring learners are better prepared to undertake their days learning.

• Increased resilience and self confidence and better ability to handle conflict in a restorative way.

• Staff more skilled in emotional coaching and active listening.

• Staff and pupils more aware of their own strengths and areas for further development so that their learning can be focused in a more targeted way.

• Better awareness of staff competencies to ensure the most appropriate deployment of staff to support learners.

• Writing:   Improved attainment in 5-14 levels, increased enjoyment, confidence and engagement in more appropriate writing contexts, increased expectations fro pupils and staff, increased opportunities for writing across the curriculum.

• Maths:   Improved attainment in 5-14 levels for most able, improved challenge for P4-P7 pupils.

• Health and Well Being:   Increased awareness of Outcomes and Expectations. improve home link activities in health and Well Being, increased awareness of how Health and Well Being links with other areas of the curriculum.

• More opportunities for collaborative learning - both pupils and staff.

• Increased motivation in their learning.

• Greater pupil involvement in their learning.

• Involvement in pupil achievement, attainment and enjoyment.

• Greater responsibility for, ownership of and confidence in their own learning.

• Greater continuity in teaching methodology from primary to secondary with an agreed focus on collaborative learning.