Scott Lavery\’s Enterprise Blog

I have been working alongside the staff and children in the various classes at Whitecraig Primary School for the past four weeks looking at how we can join the main agendas together to improve teaching and learning. As in Wallyford, I have been focusing on consistency across the school and mirroring in the various classes how to use the WHY question when introducing a lesson. This has proved successful in giving the children some relevance to certain lessons and has helped them, in some cases, to set their own success criteria.

We have also been introducing learning goals across the school with a focus on writing from Primary 3 upwards. The goals being set are designed to help the children to identify an area of work that will allow them to move forward with their writing. The classes used work in their jotters to help them identify their next steps.

Our next step is to look at the four capacities of Curriculum for Excellence and put these into more ‘child friendly’ language. The school have started to use ‘Curriculum Passports’ which give the children the opportunity to comment on their learning and identify how they have been a Successful Learner, Confident Individual, etc. Further information on how this is devleoping will be posted in due course.