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Staged intervention strategies: St Luke's High School

Staged intervention strategies: St Luke's High School

Staff outline this school's staged intervention strategy, which is aimed at meeting the learning, social and emotional needs of all learners. Find out about the practice and outcomes of the strategy. St Luke's High School has developed a staged intervention strategy to ensure that students' individual needs are met, whilst providing its students with more choices and more chances. The Headteacher and staff outline the staged intervention strategy, discuss how it supports pupils and teachers, and reflect on how it helps to promote inclusion across the school.

Learning together through self-evaluation: Cumnock Academy

Learning together through self-evaluation: Cumnock Academy

This video explores an secondary school's self-evaluation programme, which aims to open up learning and empower students by encouraging staff to develop and share good educational practice through peer review. Cumnock Academy has taken new, self-evaluating steps to open up learning within the school and empower the students who learn there. The Headteacher, staff and students outline the methods of self-evaluation used at the school, how involving the students empowers both them and their teachers, and how staff are benefiting from sharing educational practice.

Personalised learning with new technologies: Islay High School

Personalised learning with new technologies: Islay High School

Discover how an island secondary school is promoting personalised learning through the introduction of ultra mobile PCs, which were obtained for all 250 students through Schools of Ambition funding . With the help of Schools of Ambition funding, Islay High school has provided each of its students with ultra mobile PCs in order to introduce and promote personalised learning within its curriculum. The Headteacher and Principal Teacher discuss why the use of new technology promotes and aids individual styles of learning, encourages more positive interactions between student and teacher; and empowers students.

Seeking to achieve: Queensferry High School

Seeking to achieve: Queensferry High School

Listen as staff and students of a School of Ambition talk about the development and impact of a school radio station, a community newsletter and the many new leadership opportunities for young people. Queensferry High School becomes a School of Ambition as it promotes shared leadership through partnerships with Rotary Club and a local radio station. Staff and students talk about how leadership opportunities have been developed at the school, what that means to them and the wider community and the positive effect that has on pupil and staff empowerment.

Best foot forward with dyslexia: Rossie Secure Accommodation Services

Best foot forward with dyslexia: Rossie Secure Accommodation Services

Listen to staff from a secure accommodation service describe the strategies that bring positive change for young people with dyslexia and other learning needs and whose previous learning experiences have been negative. Rossie Secure Accommodation Services focuses their educational format on dyslexic style learners. The staff outline the steps taken to ensure that all pupils receive an enriching and positive learning experience, as well as discussing the increased number of learning options provided at Rossie Secure and how it empowers young people.

Creating wider opportunities: Charleston Academy

Creating wider opportunities: Charleston Academy

Follow the success story of this School of Ambition as staff, parents and students talk about the new learning and leadership opportunities and the impact of celebrating achievement. Charleston Academy succeeds as a School of Ambition and promotes the use of practice learnt at Columba 1400. Staff, parents and students talk about how learning and leadership opportunities have increased at the school, what that means to them and the positive effect that celebrating achievement has on their self-confidence.

The Leadership Academy: Cardinal Newman High School

The Leadership Academy: Cardinal Newman High School

Learn how this secondary school has recognised its capacity for improvement and taken advantage of ambition and leadership programmes to foster an enterprising spirit and improve life chances for learners. Cardinal Newman High School develops strategies to foster an ethos of ambition within the school. Staff, students and parents provide an outline of the school's Leadership Academy (based on the Columba 1400 programme) and provide their thoughts on its success and how it promotes leadership amongst both staff and students.

Social inclusion and re-engaging learners: The Xplore Project

Social inclusion and re-engaging learners: The Xplore Project

Observe a project to support young people from troubled backgrounds and to enable them to obtain a Scottish Youth Achievement Award. Staff, parents and students discuss the aims and benefits of the project. The Xplore Project in Dundee support young people from troubled backgrounds. Staff, parents and students discuss the aims and benefits of the project and how, through they project, young people are offered the opportunity to obtain a Scottish Youth Achievement Award.

Excellent inclusive schools: Martyn Rouse interview

Excellent inclusive schools: Martyn Rouse interview

Education expert Martyn Rouse explains what makes an excellent inclusive school. He outlines strategies to address exclusion and the importance of encouraging all schools to become inclusive. Martyn Rouse shares his thoughts on what makes an excellent inclusive school. He outlines strategies to address exclusion, the importance of encouraging all schools to become inclusive and the benefits it can bring to children's well-being.

The inclusive classroom: Martyn Rouse interview

The inclusive classroom: Martyn Rouse interview

Education expert Martyn Rouse points to the successes of inclusive classrooms and describes how these can be developed to provide the right support for young learners. Find out Martyn Rouse's feelings on the successes of an inclusive classroom. He explains how teachers need to expand their views and practices of education, possible strategies to create an inclusive classroom and provide the right support for young learners.