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DEVELOPING PRACTICE

Here you will find developing practice having impact across Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Stirling and West Lothian’s education establishments

The Inspiration Hub- for Forth Valley and West Lothian RIC

The Forth Valley and West Lothian Regional Improvement Collaborative was established to facilitate shared working for educational improvement: Clackmannanshire Council, Falkirk Council, Stirling Council and West Lothian Council. This hub brings together shared developing practice from across the RIC.

Working collaboratively to improve outcomes for learners

Latest from the Inspiration Hub

Braes High School S5&6 Positive Transitions Programme (CLD, Education & S.D.S Partnership)

The Positive Transitions Programme is a collaboration between Education, Community Learning & Development…

Braes High School

Enterprise and World of Work

Block Play Bridges

The class teacher introduced the class to Scottish bridges through the use of books and the internet. She…

Blackridge Primary School

Learning through play, Mathematics including Numeracy

Developing Interactions

Adults took part in CLPL for Intense Interactions and Makaton. Using the training staff reflected on their…

Park Drive Nursery

Health and Wellbeing, Learning through play

Growing Together

Following on from our Froebel Training we introduced planting and growing as part of our continuous provision…

Carmondean Primary School

Enterprise and World of Work, Learning for Sustainability, Learning through play, Outdoor Learning, Parental engagement

STEM Technology Learning in Early Years

Firstly, through identification of our gaps in children's learning, staff confidence levels and available…

Strathdevon Primary School

Digital Learning, Learning through play

YT Club Gardening and Mural Project - Stirling Youth Participation Team

Young people were supported by youth workers to clear the overgrown land and prepare the area for food…

Education Scotland Team

Outdoor Learning

P7>S1 Transition Lesson Livestreams

Through liaison with our cluster primary schools we collectively identified areas of the curriculum that the…

Deans Community High School

Digital Learning, Health and Wellbeing, Social Studies, Languages and Literacy

Skills Academy: to develop learners' and staff's understanding of transferrable skills across learning.

Created a skills-based curriculum for S1 and S2 that follows a 6-week rotation of a range of subjects …

Deans Community High School

Creativity, Enterprise and World of Work

RAAD- Raising Attainment, Attendance and Destinations

The intervention I put in place was our RAAD room and subsequently our RAAD team, 43 pupils were identified…

Falkirk High School

Mental Health

Parental engagement with the UNCRC

To action this plan, the Senior Leadership Team and relevant lead teachers led live parental presentations to…

St Margaret's Primary School

Parental engagement

CODE RED: Period Dignity - Denny High School

Key actions: One of the actions from the Code Red group is to ensure everyone has access to period…

Denny High School

Health and Wellbeing

Social Justice Ambassadors programme: poverty and equity

Initial programme: The Social Justice Ambassadors is a project that was initially co-designed by Stirling…

Stirling Council Education Centre team

Learning for Sustainability, Health and Wellbeing

Safe BAE at Braes High School

Safe BAE at Braes High School was initiated, organised, led and run by the young person. A teacher acted as…

Braes High School

Health and Wellbeing

Building pupil voice and participation into our ways of working in Falkirk Children’s Services

Officers from our SSI team engaged with colleagues from primary and secondary schools to explore how a…

Falkirk Council Education Centre team

Learning for Sustainability

Alva Academy - UN Sustainable Development Goals

Social Subjects & RMPS Faculty A key priority of our Faculty Improvement plan is the inclusion of the…

Alva Academy

Learning for Sustainability, Social Studies, Enterprise and World of Work

Children's Parliament Investigates - How Professionals Make Children’s Rights Real

The children involved in this project worked with professionals to develop resources to explain how we should…

Clackmannanshire Council Education Centre team

Creativity, Languages and Literacy, Learning for Sustainability, Digital Learning

Braes High Cluster Virtual P7 Science Transitions Workshops

Our Young STEM leaders designed a short series of activities to introduce some of our science apparatus, to…

Braes High School

Sciences

BACK UP your child - Promoting parental engagement

Bathgate Academy Parent Council worked with a design company to design a school neutral poster to promote…

Bathgate Academy

Parental engagement

Developing Critical Essay writing using 'Elaboration'

With this in mind I approached the whole idea of Knowledge as a basis leading through to elaboration.…

Graeme High School

Languages and Literacy

Clackmannanshire ELC – STEM Through Stories Approach

The STEM Lead worked with the local authority STEM Officer to pilot a new STEM learning intervention to…

Clackmannanshire Council Education Centre team

Sciences, Languages and Literacy

Christmas Creativity Challenge

I created 12 creativity challenges each with a Christmas theme. Each challenge taught a new skills or feature…

Falkirk High School

Digital Learning, Parental engagement

Accessibility Features on our Connected Falkirk iPads

I have created two booklets to support accessibility using our Connected Falkirk iPads. The first booklet is…

Falkirk High School

Digital Learning, Parental engagement

Child Poverty Week Scotland 2021 in West Lothian

The Equity Team made daily challenges, our 'Blether Bubbles', open-ended tasks, for classes and schools…

West Lothian Council Education Centre team

Creativity, Digital Learning, Health and Wellbeing, Languages and Literacy, Learning for Sustainability

Clackmannanshire CLD - Primary 7 outdoor activity transition programme

Clackmannanshire Education Community Learning and Development team in partnership with Sauchie Active 8, Play…

Education Scotland Team

Health and Wellbeing

Falkirk Council CLD Service – Falkirk Supporting Young Parents Project

Falkirk Council CLD Service created the Falkirk Supporting Young Parents Project (FSYPP) to provides young…

Education Scotland Team

Health and Wellbeing

Stirling Community Learning & Development (CLD) – Thrive to Maximise programme

We have been working in these areas on a range of parental engagement and family learning initiatives and we…

Education Scotland Team

Health and Wellbeing

Transitions Groups

S2/3 - As our pupils have been dealing with a number of changes in the past few years the focus will be on…

Braes High School

Enterprise and World of Work

Health and Well-being Report

This study was developed after an extensive research period which included – Team and pupil meetings, using…

Braes High School

Health and Wellbeing

Primary sports transition festivals/learning experience's- leadership programme

Staff within the department devised a programme that would see these classes/groups deliver at least four…

Braes High School

Health and Wellbeing

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DEVELOPING PRACTICE

Here you will find developing practice having impact across Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Stirling and West Lothian’s education establishments

The Inspiration Hub- for Forth Valley and West Lothian RIC

Working collaboratively to improve outcomes for learners