{"id":22,"date":"2026-09-21T11:44:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T10:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digitallearningteachingandassessment\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2026-10-07T16:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:24:09","slug":"how-good-is-our-school-hgios","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digitallearningteachingandassessment\/school-improvement-planning\/how-good-is-our-school-hgios\/","title":{"rendered":"How good is our school (HGIOS)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>About HGIOS<\/h3>\n<p>How good is our school? (HGIOS) provides a suite of quality indicators that support staff in all sectors to look inwards, to scrutinise their work and evaluate what is working well for learners and what could be better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/educationinspectorate.gov.scot\/media\/v5sh3dqt\/frwk2_hgios4.pdf\">View the HGIOS 4 document with this link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digitallearningteachingandassessment\/school-improvement-planning\/digital-planning-template\/\">Create your own digital plan with this link<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>What is digital learning and teaching?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Digital learning and teaching<\/strong>\u00a0is the use of digital technology to support or enhance learning for children and young people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digital skills <\/strong>are the capabilities required for living, learning and working in a digital society. It encompasses the skills to use technology and is taught in line with Curriculum for Excellence (CfE).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>What does HGIOS say about digital?<\/h3>\n<p>Section 1.5 (management of resources to promote equality) states that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Evidence<\/strong> should be used when planning to resource acquisition and new resources are evaluated to ensure they have a positive impact on learning<\/li>\n<li>Available digital technologies are used well to provide <strong>appropriate support and challenge<\/strong> for learners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The digital learning and teaching toolkit from the University of Glasgow can be used to support decision making and evaluate the use of digital in schools.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eprints.gla.ac.uk\/366744\/\">View the digital learning and teaching toolkit (UofG)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digitallearningteachingandassessment\/2026\/09\/21\/accessibility\/\">View the accessibility section on effective use of digital (ES)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Section 2.2 (curriculum) emphasises:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: initial;font-size: 1rem\">developing digital skills including as part of <strong>creativity and employability<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To effectively support children and young people <strong>learn digital skills<\/strong> and use them across the curriculum, educators require confidence in their own skills. The digital skills for Scottish educators provides guidance on the skills required.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digitallearningteachingandassessment\/?page_id=42&amp;preview=true\">View the digital skills for Scottish educators guidance\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/2026\/09\/17\/digital-skills-for-primary-schools\/\">View examples and resource for primary schools&#8217; <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/technologiesandinnovationearning\/2026\/09\/17\/digital-skills-for-primary-schools\/\">digital skills<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Section 2.3 (learning, teaching and assessment) does not explicitly reference digital but opportunities to utilise digital in effective teaching includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Staff access and apply <strong>relevant findings from educational research<\/strong> to improve learning and teaching<\/li>\n<li>Assessment approaches are matched to the learning needs of learners and are used to support them to <strong>demonstrate where they are in their learning <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A <\/strong><strong>quality body of evidence<\/strong> is used to support assessment judgements and decisions about next steps<\/li>\n<li>Learners receive <strong>high-quality feedback<\/strong> that is\u00a0<strong>effective in informing improvements<\/strong> in learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digitallearningteachingandassessment\/effective-use-of-digital-for-learning-teaching-and-assessment\/\">View examples of effective use of digital in learning, teaching and assessment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Section 3.3 (creativity and employability) states:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: initial;font-size: 1rem\">Children <\/span><span style=\"color: initial;font-size: 1rem\">and young people are given agency <\/span><strong style=\"color: initial;font-size: 1rem\">to be creative and use digital technologies<\/strong><span style=\"color: initial;font-size: 1rem\"> to meet a personal or social need and <\/span><strong>generating digital solutions<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digitallearningteachingandassessment\/2026\/09\/21\/engaging-and-creative-activities\/\">View examples of engaging and creative activities in learning, teaching and assessment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digitallearningteachingandassessment\/school-improvement-planning\/digital-planning-template\/\">Create your own digital plan with this link<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About HGIOS How good is our school? (HGIOS) provides a suite of quality indicators that support staff in all sectors to look inwards, to scrutinise their work and evaluate what is working well for learners and what could be better. View the HGIOS 4 document with this link Create your own digital plan with this link &nbsp; What is digital learning and teaching? Digital learning and teaching\u00a0is the use of<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digitallearningteachingandassessment\/school-improvement-planning\/how-good-is-our-school-hgios\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61927,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digitallearningteachingandassessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digitallearningteachingandassessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digitallearningteachingandassessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digitallearningteachingandassessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digitallearningteachingandassessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digitallearningteachingandassessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digitallearningteachingandassessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/183"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digitallearningteachingandassessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/digitallearningteachingandassessment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}