{"id":234,"date":"2019-12-14T18:16:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T18:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stanthonysprimaryschool\/?page_id=234"},"modified":"2019-12-15T17:25:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T17:25:28","slug":"raising-attainment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stanthonysprimaryschool\/raising-attainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising Attainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h4><strong>The Scottish Attainment Challenge<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The Scottish Attainment Challenge is about achieving equity in educational outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Equity can be achieved by ensuring every child has the same opportunity to succeed, with a particular focus on closing the poverty-related attainment gap.<\/p>\n<p>The First Minister launched the Scottish Attainment Challenge in February 2015 to bring a greater sense of urgency and priority to this issue.<\/p>\n<p>It is underpinned by <a class=\"id--317912\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.scot\/Topics\/Education\/Schools\/NationalImprovementFramework\"><strong>The National Improvement Framework<\/strong><\/a>, Curriculum for Excellence and Getting it Right for Every Child.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Attainment Challenge will focus and accelerate targeted improvement activity in literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing in specific areas of Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>It will also support and complement the broader range of initiatives and programmes to ensure that all of Scotland\u2019s children and young people reach their full potential.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a3750 million Attainment Scotland Fund\u00a0is a targeted initiative focused on supporting pupils in the local authorities of Scotland with the highest concentrations of deprivation.<\/p>\n<p>The nine\u00a0\u2018Challenge Authorities\u2019 are Glasgow, Dundee, Inverclyde, West Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, Clackmannanshire, North Lanarkshire, East Ayrshire and Renfrewshire.<\/p>\n<p>A number of schools outwith the Challenge Authorities, with significant proportions of their pupils living in deprived areas also benefitting. These schools have been identified on the basis of supporting a significant proportion of pupils and families from communities which are facing some of the greatest challenges across Scotland. Many of these schools are already doing well for all of their pupils and we want to learn from and spread this practice.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"id--337998\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.scot\/Topics\/Education\/Schools\/Raisingeducationalattainment\/pupilequityfund\">Pupil Equity Funding<\/a> is also provided through the Attainment Scotland Fund and\u00a0allocated directly to schools, targeted at those children most affected by the poverty related attainment gap.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>(Article 28: I have the right to an education.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish Attainment Challenge The Scottish Attainment Challenge is about achieving equity in educational outcomes. Equity can be achieved by ensuring every child has the same opportunity to succeed, with a particular focus on closing the poverty-related attainment gap. The First Minister launched the Scottish Attainment Challenge in February 2015 to bring a greater sense &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stanthonysprimaryschool\/raising-attainment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Raising Attainment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5057,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-234","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stanthonysprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stanthonysprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stanthonysprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stanthonysprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stanthonysprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stanthonysprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stanthonysprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/na\/stanthonysprimaryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}