Personal support in schools

Sharing practice in primary schools

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Eco-greenhouse partnership project

P7 pupils from St Timothy's and S5/6 pupils from Drumpark worked in partnership to build an environmentally friendly greenhouse in St Timothy's school grounds.

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Planning for choices and changes

Planning for choices and changes in the transition between nursery and P1. This case study focuses on St Timothy’s Primary School, Coatbridge.

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Using research to inform practice

These teachers involved educational psychologists to improve the quality of learning and teaching in their classrooms.

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St Joseph's Primary School 2, Fife

The school adapted personal learning plans used in other contexts and overcame some of the issues involved in the PLP process.
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Primary and secondary collaboration improves transitions

This case study describes the development of a transition project involving Drummond Community High School and its associated primary schools.

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Supporting vulnerable children during lunch breaks

Chirnside Primary created a project to support vulnerable groups, included some with English as an additional language, those with relationship difficulties and those who were excluded from the playground due to constant aggressive behaviour.

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Building on personal learning planning in the Primary Sector

This cross-establishment project involving six primaries in Clackmannanshire built on the previous year’s work on personal learning planning.

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Bannockburn Primary School - pit stop

A new policy in recognising and rewarding Positive Assertive Discipline is bearing fruit in Stirling.
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Lumsden Primary School - RRSA project

Find out how Lumsden Primary School achieved their Rights Respecting Schools Award (RRSA).

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Personal learning planning in health and wellbeing, south queensferry

This group devised a whole school wall display on which pupils' targets were moved on bicycles towards a success line over a short period of time.

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Stenhousemuir Primary School - ready steady learn

Read about the programme to ease new P1 pupils into formal learning.