The hard work and dedication of young entrepreneurs representing schools from across the Lothians has been recognised at an awards event at Edinburgh Napier University. Continue reading University hosts Young Enterprise Lothian Awards
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City pupils being short-changed?
Edinburgh schools have the worst pupil-to-teacher ratios in Scotland, new figures have revealed. According to the statistics, the Capital had 15.1 pupils to every teacher across both primary and secondary schools. Continue reading City pupils being short-changed?
Lights, camera, DATA!
Calling all budding Steven Spielbergs, Kathryn Bigelows or Peter Jacksons, Netflix fans, and promising BBC Data Scientists! A national competition to design a film or tv series based on data has been launched at DATAFEST 2019 – the UK’s first ever two-week festival of data innovation in Scotland. Continue reading Lights, camera, DATA!
Boost for computing lessons in Scottish schools
Teachers from nearly 70 per cent of Scottish schools have signed up for BT tech literacy programme Continue reading Boost for computing lessons in Scottish schools
Lothian schools lose 41 Maths and English teachers over 8 years
The Teacher Census 2018, published this week, shows that since 2010, 15 fewer Lothian secondary school teachers are taking English as their main subject, a drop from 366 to 351. Continue reading Lothian schools lose 41 Maths and English teachers over 8 years
MSPs to study range of subject choice in Scotland’s schools
Is the range of subject choice in schools impacting on the future of Scotland’s young people? This will be examined in a new Holyrood inquiry announced today. Continue reading MSPs to study range of subject choice in Scotland’s schools
Schools Film Competiton: information session tomorrow
Hello, Edinburgh Teachers,
The Edinburgh and Lothians Film Competition is an opportunity for your students to showcase their talent at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June 2019!
Open to all City of Edinburgh council & Lothians schools, come along to the teachers’ information sessions tomorrow (Thursday 31st January) at the Filmhouse to find out more about the Edinburgh and Lothians Film Competition.
Charity urges rethink on how schools are judged
Adoption UK and a group of leading education experts are urging a radical rethink in the way schools are judged. Continue reading Charity urges rethink on how schools are judged
Topping out at Queensferry High School
A topping out ceremony has been held to mark a key milestone in the construction of the new £40m Queensferry High School.
Primary 1 assessments: what do you think?
Views are being sought on the use of standardised assessments for Primary 1 (P1) children as part of the independent review led by David Reedy.
The review is seeking views from interested parties including teachers, councils, professional associations and parent groups.
Mr Reedy is being supported by a small review team including Dr Eve Bearne and two members of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education.
Work is already underway and a programme of school visits and engagement with practitioners and other stakeholders is being developed.
David Reedy said: “I encourage anyone with an interest to get in touch with the review, particularly those with experience of the assessments during the 2018/19 academic session.”
Deputy First Minister John Swinney said: “It is crucial that we have the appropriate approach to assessment in our schools and that is why I commissioned this independent review into the use of P1 assessments.
“The review will consider the evidence gathered and be led by what is best for pupils. I look forward to receiving the review’s conclusions later this year.”
School children in P1, P4, P7 and S3 complete online standardised assessments in literacy and numeracy as part of everyday learning and teaching.
The assessments are designed to help identify children’s progress, providing diagnostic information to support teachers’ professional judgement.
The review will consider and provide recommendations on the following issues:
- the compatibility of the assessments with the play based approach in the early level of Curriculum for Excellence
- the alignment of the assessments to the benchmarks for the early level
- the effect of taking an on-line assessment on P1 children
- the usefulness of the diagnostic information provided to teachers and how it supports their professional judgement
- the implications of the review for the ongoing development of the national Gaelic Medium Education standardised assessments
- the future of the assessments. In particular whether they should continue in line with the current continuous improvement model, be substantially modified, or be stopped.
The review will be asked to provide conclusions and recommendations on each of these issues by the end of May 2019. The recommendations of the review will then be brought back to Parliament for consideration.
If you would like to contribute to the review please email p1review@gov.scot
Independent review of P1 assessments remit.