{"id":16988,"date":"2017-09-28T12:59:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T11:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/?p=16988"},"modified":"2017-09-28T12:59:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T11:59:04","slug":"interesting-practice-exemplar-st-andrews-academy-weaving-employability-into-the-senior-phase-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/2017\/09\/28\/interesting-practice-exemplar-st-andrews-academy-weaving-employability-into-the-senior-phase-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting practice exemplar:  St Andrew&#8217;s Secondary School &#8211; weaving employability into the senior phase curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2017\/09\/St-Andrews-employability-strand.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16993 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2017\/09\/St-Andrews-employability-strand-300x260.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a>St Andrew&#8217;s RC Secondary School in Glasgow has adopted an innovative approach to their senior phase curriculum design which includes an employability\u00a0stand\u00a0 alongside a two year Higher and traditional pathway\u00a0model from S4\u00a0to S6.<\/p>\n<p>The following document\u00a0and presentation sets out the importance of this\u00a0particular design feature, the challenges the school\u00a0faced and the lessons they are learning from the ongoing evaluations of their curriculum design.\u00a0Evidence about success of the design focuses on improved outcomes for young people.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2017\/09\/St-Andrews-Secon-senior-phase-curriculum-design.pdf\">St Andrews Secon senior phase curriculum design<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/eslb\/files\/2017\/09\/St-Andrews-Sec-senior-phase-design.ppt\">St Andrews Sec senior phase design<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other senior phase curriculum models can be accessed on the National Improvement Hub <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/education.gov.scot\/improvement\/assess29-senior-phase-pathways\">here<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Support materials around senior phase design are now\u00a0also available on the hub <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/education.gov.scot\/improvement\/dyw37-learning-pathways-senior-phase-design\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Also noteworthy is the radical curriculum design at<strong> Craigroyston Community High School<\/strong> which unapologetically focuses on learner destination only. More on this <a href=\"https:\/\/education.gov.scot\/improvement\/dyw32-inspirational-learning-delivered-in-partnership\">here,<\/a> as well as in this\u00a0 presentation at the SFL 2017:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/education.gov.scot\/improvement\/Pages\/dyw35-helping-young-people-realise-their-aspirations.aspx\">Craigroyston CHS<\/a>.\u00a0 There are also tangible links with the Scottish Attainment Challenge and PEF documented<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/education.gov.scot\/improvement\/Pages\/sacfi8b-curriculum-for-all-craigroyston.aspx\"> here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Andrew&#8217;s RC Secondary School in Glasgow has adopted an innovative approach to their senior phase curriculum design which includes an employability\u00a0stand\u00a0 alongside a two year Higher and traditional pathway\u00a0model from S4\u00a0to S6. The following document\u00a0and presentation sets out the importance of this\u00a0particular design feature, the challenges the school\u00a0faced and the lessons they are learning from the ongoing evaluations of their curriculum design.\u00a0Evidence about success of the design focuses on<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/2017\/09\/28\/interesting-practice-exemplar-st-andrews-academy-weaving-employability-into-the-senior-phase-curriculum\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,82,39],"tags":[74,234,54,75,8,235,85,52],"class_list":["post-16988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-secondary","category-senior-phase","category-skills","tag-career-education","tag-curriculum-rationale","tag-dyw","tag-employability","tag-partnership-working","tag-secondary","tag-senior-phase","tag-skills-for-learning-life-and-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/dyw20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}