| East Dunbartonshire Council
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| Strategy |
| East Dunbartonshire Council is
undertaking 2 main projects with the additional finance made available. |
| Project 2 is aimed at
‘raising achievement in reading in the early years’. |
| This project which has a staff
development focus will not be fully implemented until August 1998 and will undertake work
with the following groups - nursery staff, P1 teachers, Headteachers and parents.
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| The project is being evaluated
by conducting a literacy baseline assessment with the current P1 population in the schools
involved acting as a ‘control’ with further assessments being carried out on an
annual basis with subsequent P1 groups. |
| A highly successful 2 day
conference on Early Intervention was organised for all Primary and Nursery Headteachers
and Service Managers in March. |
| Project 1 concerns itself
with the development of a pupil profiling system at the P1 stage to identify pupils who
may require additional consideration when planning learning and teaching activities.
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| This profiling system creates a
basis for intervention with the development of appropriate strategies by the class
teachers in collaboration with Network Support staff. |
| Ten schools were involved in a
pilot of the profiling system from August 1997 with Network Support in those schools being
focused in the main around the P1-4 stages. |
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| Scope |
| Project 2 - 13 schools
involved with a total of 824 pupils at P1 or Pre5 stage benefiting. |
| Project 1- 10 schools
involved with 380 pupils at the P1 stage benefiting. |
| NB: Seven schools in
Project 1 are also involved in Project 2. |
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| Achievements and emerging lessons
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| The success of Project 1
has been such that the pupil profiling system developed will be introduced to all
36 primary schools in East Dunbartonshire from August 1998. |
| The focusing of support for
learning in the early stages ensures that intervention can be facilitated with a support
plan being established at an early stage for pupils who require additional consideration.
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| Local Views |
| The following are quotes from
2 teachers at the P1 stage involved in piloting the pupil profiling system |
| "The pupil profiling
system focused my thoughts as to the specific skills children should be developing at this
stage and helped to provide me with a basis for my planning".(LS who was teaching
a P1 class for the first time.) |
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| "I found this to be a
most practical method of assessment which had very clear implications for subsequent
planning and the learning and teaching taking place in my classroom."(AD an
experienced P1 teacher.) |
