More than a hundred secondary schools will receive up to £11.5 million for projects to close the attainment gap, Deputy First Minister John Swinney confirmed yesterday. In Edinburgh Castlebrae Community High School, Wester Hailes Education Centre, Holyrood High School and Craigroyston Community High School will benefit from the funding.
The funding will enable up to 133 secondary schools with pupils living in areas of deprivation to improve their literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing.
During a visit to Coatbridge High School, whose pupils will benefit from North Lanarkshire’s £1.6m share of the funding, Mr Swinney said: “Delivering equity and excellence across Scotland’s education system is this government’s defining mission. I am firmly committed to substantially closing the gap in the attainment of pupils from our most and least deprived areas during the lifetime of this parliament.
“The funding we are allocating to secondary schools is part of the additional £750 million we will make available to support schools to close the attainment gap over the same period. It will enable more than a hundred secondary schools to improve literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing through a range of projects devised by the schools themselves.
“This builds on our existing work with hundreds of primary schools to ensure no child or young person in Scotland is held back because of their background.”
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