Our Lady’s School Improvement Priorities 2023-24

 

Priority 1 – Learning and Teaching

• Consistently high learning and teaching experiences for young people based on the OLHS teaching framework.
• Increased opportunities for young people to lead learning.
• Young people will experience appropriate challenge and pace in lessons planned to meet their needs.
• Increased use of digital strategies to enhance learning.

 

Priority 2 – Raising Attainment and Achievement

• Development of new OLHS raising attainment strategy, calendar and policy.
• Increase in the number of young people achieving 5 National 5s in S4.
• Increase in the number of young people achieving 1 Higher in S5.
• Reduction the poverty related attainment gap in literacy and numeracy.
• Increase in the effective use of data to raise attainment.
• Development of a whole school OLHS tracker.

 

Priority 3 – Health and Wellbeing

• Improved use of all GIRFEC procedures and policies.
• Improvement in pupil attendance, in all stages.
• All pupils with a barrier to learning will benefit from a wellbeing assessment and targeted intervention.

 

Priority 4 – Self Evaluation

• Development of a new whole school/faculty self-evaluation policy.
• Development of new whole school/faculty self-evaluation calendar.
• Increased opportunities for staff, parents/carers and pupils to be involved in self-evaluation and school improvement planning.