1.3 Leadership of Change SPS

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1.3 leadership of change

Pupil Parliament

Pupil Leadership

Improvement Plan

Connected Quality improvement

Our Senior Leadership Team

Staff Leadership

Connected Quality Improvement

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Aug - Nov: Across Low Port and Springfield Primary staff and pupils engaged in moderation sessions to review the quality of experiences in writing. Here is a video showing the impact of this moderation. Nov-Mar: Staff have recently focused on Listening and Talking see 2.3 for more information.

What is Connected Quality Improvement?

Our Senior Leadership Team

Across both schools and ELC we have a leadership with a wealth of experience and knowledge in education.Working in partnership through the collaborative leadership model the SLT are able to lead and support pupils, staff and children using their specific skillsets. Click on the + on each photo to find out how we can help!

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Staff Leadership - sharing expertise

School distributed leadership is prioritised across Low Port, Bonnytoun ELC and Springfield. Staff have leadership roles which support improvements across both schools and are supported by other staff, community members and pupil leaders.This year staff have been sharing their expertise across all settings by offering professional learning sessions. To find out more about these sessions see 3.2.

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Pupil Parliament

This year as part of developing pupil leadership across Low Port and Springfield Primary we have introduced a Pupil Parliament.This is made up of 5 subgroups Relationships, Learning and Teaching, School and Community, Health and Wellbeing and Successes and Achievements. Click info to find out more about these themes. Click on the audio buttons to hear from the pupils about their experiences between Aug-Nov and the name of the groups to hear progress between Nov-March.

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Relationships

Health & Wellbeing

Learning & Teaching

Successes & Achievements

School & Community

Improvement Planning

Across Bonnytoun ELC, Low Port and Springfield Primary we are commited to continuous school improvement. Each year we identify priorities based of evidence and self-evaluation with all stakeholders.Our improvement plans are unique to each school context. However, as part of the collaborative leadership model we are engaging in collaborating professional learning in some aspects e.g Community in our Curriculum - Our Shared Linlithgow Book (see 2.2 for more information) and adapted teaching to meet children's needs (differentiation).

Pupil Leadership

This year we introduced a Primary 7 economy in Low Port Primary and Springfield Primary to develop leadership. Primary 7 were consulted on designing the name of their economy, how they would be paid and their responsibilities and what they could spend their earned money on.This took unique form across both schools!Every Primary 7 pupil has a leadership role which links to specific meta skills.Find out about some of our leadership opportunities across the schools between Nov-March by clicking +Leadership Update.

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Relationships Pupil Parliament

Our Relationship Pupil Parliment Sub Groups for Low Port and Springfield delivered Anti-Bullying Week Assemblies in both schools.The children worked collaboratively to create and deliver the important messages of anti-bullying. This ensured a consistent message was shared across both schools. The children developed confidence, creativity and leadership skills through this experience.

• Play
• Sustainibility
• Reading and Writing
• Outdoor learning

Leadership at Early Level - P1 and P2 based at Low Port Primary

Miss Smith's Skills

DIGITAL LEADERS

WOODWORK LEADERS

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LUNCH CLUBS

LANGUAGE AMBASSADORS

Our Mental Health is very important to us. We celebrated children's mental health week 'My Voice Matters'. We created a joint video across our LPPS and SPS HWB Pupil Parliament about children's mental health to share with our families. You can see this video by clicking the icon.

Children's Mental Health

Sharing our Successes and Achievements

Our Pupil Parliament Group decided we would like to create a Padlet so that we can share our successes and achievements. Every 4 weeks these are shared at a celebration assembly. Click the sound icon to find out more.

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Planning for Improvement

Each pupil parliament group met with the member of SLT leading each group and self-evaluated their theme using How Good is OUR School. We discussed the features of highly effective practice and rated them red, amber or green. We then used this to create an action plan for improvement for our theme.

What does Connected Quality Improvement Look Like?

Pupil Participation

Learner participation in schools and ELC settings includes all of the ways in which children and young people engage in practices and dialogue with educational staff, parents, carers, and community members to create positive outcomes and changes.The ‘Four Arenas of Participation’ provides a framework to help us understand and develop when, where, and how learners can have a say in schools and ELC settings.Through our school economy children have the opportunity to lead change and create positive outcomes across both schools within all 4 areas of participation.

• Languages
• Health and Wellbeing
• Nurture
• Numeracy

Leadership at First and Second LevelBased at Low Port Primary

Mrs Gordon's skills

This year we are reviewing our positive relationships policies with a focus on Anti-Bullying across both schools. We have attended West Lothian online mini champion events with children across West Lothian to think about how we can improve positive relationships.You can hear more about our joint anti-bulling assembly by clicking on the sound icon on the previous page.

Relationships

• Literacy
• Supporting children with ASN
• Languages
• Creativity in the curriculum

Leadership of Support for Learning based at Springfield Primary

Mrs Grieve's skills

• RME
• Social Studies
• Support for Learning
• HWB

Mrs Page's Skills

Relationships Pupil Parliament

Our Relationship Pupil Parliment Sub Groups for Low Port and Springfield delivered Anti-Bullying Week Assemblies in both schools.The children worked collaboratively to create and deliver the important messages of anti-bullying. This ensured a consistent message was shared across both schools. The children developed confidence, creativity and leadership skills through this experience.

As part of our development of our Social Studies Curriculum at SPS our Learning and Teaching Pupil Parliament Group participated in consultation about what concepts they wanted to learn about. We consulted with teachers, children and families. Click the sound icon to hear a Learning and Teaching Leader telling you about this.

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• Play
• ELC
• Health and Wellbeing
• Trauma informed practice

Leadership of Early Level based at Springfield Primary

Miss Miller's skills

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Our School and community groups met with the Linlithgow Rotary Club and devised a community questionnaire. We want to find out what is important to the community members in Linlithgow. And how we can work together to improve our local community.Click the sound icon to her a School and Community leader telling you more about this.

School and Community

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Leadership is recognised as one of the most important aspects of the success of any school. Leaders at all levels who are empowered, and who empower others to take ownership of their own learning, have a strong track record of ensuring the highest quality of learning and teaching. This in turn helps to ensure that all children achieve the best possible outcomes. Highly effective leadership is key in ensuring the highest possible standards and expectations are shared across schools to achieve excellence and equity for all. We want to empower the leaders at all levels in our schools. We believe good leaders are best placed to improve outcomes for our children and can drive further improvement by collaborating across boundaries.

School Leadership

How Good is Our School Part 2 This framework was developed by Education Scotland for children and young people because it is important that they have a say in how well their school is doing and how it can be improved. We know that children and young people can help to improve their schools when they have a say and it is important that you are involved in this in your school. Self-evaluation is how schools decide what is going well and what could be better. It helps schools to identify the actions they need to take to keep improving. Their contribution to this is very important. Children and young people across Scotland helped us to develop this framework. They took part in workshops and told us what they thought the most important things about school are. They helped to organise their ideas into five big themesWe used the 5 themes to create our pupil parliament sub groups.

How Good is OUR School

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• Philosophy for Children
• English as an Additional Language
• Play
• Meta-Skills
• Emotion Works
• Block Play
• Literacy - Reflective Reading and Story Kitchen

Strategic development across Low Port Primary and Springfield Primary

Mrs Hocknull's skills

Our Senior Leadership team is made up of 7 members across both schools.Mrs Hocknull HTMrs Page DHTLynn McVay PT (based at Springfield)Zoe Gordon PT (based at Low Port)Amy Miller PT (based at Springfield)Lauren Smith PT (based at Low Port)Kelly Grieve PT (based at Springfield)

Senior Leadership Team

This indicator focuses on collaborative leadership at all levels to develop a shared vision for change and improvement which is meaningful and relevant to the context of the school within its community. Planning for continuous improvement should be evidence-based and linked to effective self-evaluation. Senior leaders should ensure the need for change is well understood and that the pace of change is appropriate to ensure the desired positive impact for learners.The collaborative leadership model allows us to develop a shared vision for change and improvement for both schools within our community of Linlithgow. However, each school has individual improvement plans based on the evaluation and evidence of each school. Change is being implemented at a pace which is appropriate to each individual school to ensure we continue to positive impact for all our learners.

How Good are Our Schools?

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• Upper School Play
• Digital
• Skills
• F1 in schools
• Number Talks
• P7-S1 Transition
• Tapestry - Feedback & Differentiation

Leadership at Second Level based at Springfield Primary

Mrs McVay's skills