To find out more about our Assess, Build, Innovate 5-year Digital Plan, please see the documents below.

Renfrewshire’s Standards Quality Report 2022

A clear 5 year Digital plan that is bringing about improvements in infrastructure, resources and digital pedagogy.

Very good progress has been made in implementing Year 2 of our 5-year Digital Plan – Assess, Build, Innovate. Our strategy is underpinned by the aim to develop high quality learning and teaching that leads to improved levels of attainment and achievement in all of our establishments.

Infrastructure

To improve our infrastructure and ensure that all children, young people and schools have access to hardware, wifi and well-researched digital platforms/software to ensure equity and improve outcomes:

• Comms World connections have been made to almost all establishments, with the remainder hoping to be complete by August 2022.
• A business case for wi-fi completed and ready for Digital Board. Following approval of this, surveys will be carried out across all establishments.

Resources—Capacity and Capability

To ensure all practitioners have improved skills and increased confidence in using digital tools to enhance learning, teaching and parental engagement:

• a pilot Digital Learning Thematic Visit was carried out. This allowed the model to be tested and approved and will be used to inform the Thematic Visits and school reviews moving forward.
• a Digital Needs survey was carried out across Secondary Departments, Primary Schools and Early Learning and Childcare Centres (ELCC). The results allowed us to pinpoint what existing support was available, including pre-recorded videos and collections of curated materials, and sign-post schools to this. In addition, further professional learning was identified for next session.
• our rolling refresh programme for digital devices and peripherals is underway. An additional £800K has been invested in replacements and repairs, including Windows 10 laptops for teaching staff and projectors being replaced with Promethean Panels.
• the Digital Learning Manager and Digital Schools Award (DSAS) team worked with schools to develop their understanding of the DSAS and to progress their Digital Schools Award journey. A further 5 schools gained their Digital Schools Award Scotland this session meaning that just over 37% of schools in Renfrewshire have achieved this nationally recognised award, with another 25% now registered for the award. Schools who gained their award this session have agreed to support other schools on this journey throughout next session.

Engagement, Coordination and Communication

Creative use of various digital platforms has strengthened family learning in almost all establishments.

• During Cyber Scotland Week we held 2 Get Safe Online sessions – one for staff in schools and one for parents to provide an overview of what children and young people may experience online. All staff attendees felt their confidence, knowledge and skills had increased and said they would implement what they have learned and share with colleagues. Parents rated the session 4.81 out of 5. Nine schools successfully participated in Get Safe Online Ambassador Training to schools.
  • Parent: “It was very informative. There’s so much to learn. It was honestly mind blowing….”
  • Parent: “Very helpful – actually watched it with my child and it generated good conversations around internet safety.”
  • Teacher: “I felt the session was very informative and covered lots of areas regarding online safety. It was well delivered!”
• In order to support the Scottish Government’s promise of 1-2-1 devices for all learners from P1 – S6, the National Digital Discovery Survey was completed at the end of February. Within this, we considered our existing infrastructure plans (including our current Wi-Fi provision), how devices are shared across learners and the support we are currently offering to schools.

Learning, Teaching and Assessment

• We provided professional learning on digital learning pedagogy to promote a shared understanding and provision of high quality learning online.
• Almost all establishments have engaged with either bespoke or tailored support and/or CLPL.
• There were 34 CLPL sessions with over 880 staff taking part and 47 establishments accessing bespoke or tailored support.
• Each CLPL session was rated 4 or more out of 5 and almost all staff reported that confidence, knowledge and skills had increased as a result of the session, with 80% of attendees intending to implement or share what they learned with colleagues.
  • Teacher: “I found it really helpful to see a variety of ways Sway can be used especially as I am a beginner. The variations included from the presenters was brilliant!”

• For our Teach Meet in June, we had 9 staff from Early Years, Primary and Secondary volunteering to share their practice.
  • Participants rated the session 5 out of 5 and all said they would share what they had learned with colleagues.
• 10 establishments were provided with bespoke Glow blogs support, ranging from the creation of new sites to updating and redesigning existing sites. This included support time for planning and access to our Glow Blogs Wakelet.
• Our DigiLearnRen blog provides updates on all things digital with new posts being shared at least 3 times a week. It is a one-stop shop for all that is happening!
  • This year our number of unique visitors has increased from 50 to over 300.
  • The content includes resources such as Acceptable Use Policy, Video Conferencing Guidance, PL Calendar and useful links.
  • The CLPL Wakelets have been viewed more than 200 times.
  • Linked to the blog is the DigiLearnRen YouTube Channel where over 75 new videos have been published this session with over 1560 views in total.
• Support on where to access all of this information was collated and shared in the Digital Needs Survey response in April 2022.
• Throughout this session, groups of interested staff have been supported on their digital journeys via a Team and regular meetings with the Digital Learning Manager. Following these meetings, 2 teachers have earned their Apple Teacher award, most have gained their Microsoft Innovative Educator badge and most of the teachers are undertaking their Google Certified Trainer, Level 1 exam.
• The Computing Science (CS) group evaluated the Primary resources available from Barefoot Computing and will be creating a Primary CS Pathway in the new session. Five Primary School teachers volunteered to create a Renfrewshire Progression Pathway for Primary Schools which provides suggested activities and resources to ensure progression from P1 to P7 alongside professional learning for staff.

Renfrewshire’s Education Improvement Plan 22.23

Education Improvement Plan

What will we do collectively?

Deliver a comprehensive core programme of digital pedagogies professional learning across all sectors linked to professional standards and informed by local/national priorities.

To maximise the impact of professional learning, develop a framework which will clearly outline:

• deliverables from the central team
• expectations of participation in professional learning;
• a criteria for successful implementation of approach/intervention; and
• an evaluation framework and process that enables practitioners to measure the impact of approach to learner progress

What difference will we make?

By June 2023: Our strengthened approach to professional learning better equips leaders and practitioners with the knowledge, skills and confidence to effect positive change for all learners.

Almost all leaders and participants in professional learning have a greater understanding of conditions required for successful implementation of learning and

teaching approaches/interventions.

Professional learning in digital pedagogy contributes to a 3% increase in number of schools achieving Digital Schools Award Scotland (DSAS).

How will we measure success?

Evaluations post training and at 3 monthly intervals with a target group will demonstrate that for almost all participants the training has:

• Increased confidence in how to successfully apply their new skills, knowledge and understanding in their teaching.
• Increased confidence in evaluating the impact of this teaching on pupil progress and using this to inform next steps in learning.