Queen Anne High School in Dunfermline, Fife and the learning community around the school have achieved outstanding evaluations in two separate reports by HM Inspectors published by Education Scotland today.

Queen Anne High School has become one of the few secondary schools in Scotland to receive evaluations of nothing less than ‘excellent’ and ‘very good’ from inspectors since the issue of updated guidelines by Education Scotland that reflect the increased expectations now applying as a result of the implementation of Curriculum for Excellence.  At the same time, the learning community has been evaluated as ‘very good’ in all four quality indicators used nationally to monitor the quality of learning communities

The report about the Queen Anne’s learning community states:

• Learners are achieving very well across the community, becoming more confident and active, and increasing their life chances.
• Performance reporting is well-embedded, with robust reporting systems that demonstrate that CLD is achieving most targets.
• Young people are achieving well through a good range of learning programmes.
• Work with parents is well-established, with a strong focus on early intervention.
• CLD providers are supporting a range of community groups that are achieving well.
• CLD partners are working well together to improve the quality of services.
• Partnership self-evaluation is leading to improvements.
• There are good arrangements for workforce development.

The inspection found the following key strengths within the Queen Anne learning community:

• Highly developed partnerships and positive collaborative working.
• Continuous improvement which is embedded in practice.
• Innovative professional learning leading to well‑trained and highly motivated staff.
• Joint reviewing and planning with partners.
• Well‑targeted provision for young people, adults and community groups which is improving life chances.

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