The document outlines the improvement plan priorities for Currie High School. It discusses priorities around learners' experiences including increasing the use of ICT in learning and teaching. It also discusses ensuring consistently high quality learning and teaching through continued professional development for staff. Other priorities include evaluating and developing the curriculum, meeting learning needs, improving performance, and engaging in self-evaluation.

1. Improvement Plan priorities
13th
August 2015

2. Improvement Plan Priorities –
Learners’ Experiences.
ICT in Learning and Teaching
• The Currie ICT Blog; SharePoint; Twitter;
Career Long Professional Learning (CLPL)
on ICT in L&T including Apple Professional
Development (APD)Training; Introduction of
Apple TVS; individual iPads issued to all S3
by September; new school website
developed.

3. Improvement Plan Priorities –
Learners’ Experiences.
Ensure Consistently High Quality Learning and Teaching
 Continue to develop the Learning and Teaching online toolkit
and blog to engage all staff and ensure we all take
responsibility for our own professional learning and
development.
 Develop the CLPL library and resource area to support staff
and to keep up the momentum following the successful Currie
Learning Festival in May 2015.
 Another Currie Learning Festival in 2015/16 for staff and also
one for parents.
 The Learning and Teaching Working Group – Percy; Lianne;
Kristy; and Irene. NEW MEMBERS VERY WELCOME!!

4. Improvement Plan Priorities –
Learners’ Experiences.
Ensure Consistently High Quality Learning and Teaching
 The Currie Learning Community (CLC) – all of us.
 The Currie Learning Groups (CLGs) – the groups focusing
on specific areas which were priorities in 2014/15 and which
will continue to be priorities in 2015/16. ICT; Questioning;
Feedback; Active Learning. These groups will continue to
promote innovative practice in L&T and will continue the
excellent work which culminated in the CLF in May 2015. Led
by: Ken; Lesley Helm; Lisa; Lianne; Kate; Annette; Gillian;
Sharon; Lesley Muir; Joanne.

5. Improvement Plan Priorities –
Learners’ Experiences
Ensure Consistently High Quality Learning and Teaching.
• Faster pace and more challenge.
• Less copying.
• Differentiated tasks, activities and resources including
differentiated success criteria.
• Breadth, challenge and application can be introduced through
meaningful, ongoing extension activities.
• Ensuring learners are aware of their levels and what they need
to do to improve.
• Specific and focused written and verbal feedback.
• Using different questioning techniques to engage all learners
and ensure everyone is actively learning.

6. Improvement Plan Priorities. The
Curriculum
 Evaluate existing NQs and develop and deliver new Higher and
Advanced Higher courses.
 Ensure that learning for sustainability and the school’s vision and
values underpin all four contexts of learning
 Be explicit, through LIs and SC, about the skills pupils are developing
through lessons.
 Continue to evaluate the BGE ( including primary/secondary transition)
to ensure coherence and progression across the four contexts of
learning.
 Continue to explore and expand flexible progression pathways for all in
the SP
 Embed STEM and Learning for Sustainability in the BGE and the SP in
line with the recommendations from DSYW and the school’s rationale
for the curriculum.
 Continue to consult with all about the design of the curriculum.

7. Improvement Plan Priorities. Meeting
Learning Needs.
 Foster a ‘Growth Mindset’ across staff and
pupils.
 Develop and evaluate an ASL toolkit.
 Provide in house CLPL on differentiation and
meeting learning needs in the classroom.
 Further develop the role of the Inclusion
Teacher.
 Evaluate provision for the most able pupils.

8. Improvement Plan Priorities.
Improvements in Performance.
 Review NQ courses and internal verification practices.
 Systematically monitor and track the progress of pupils through the
BGE.
 Set up an Insight Analysis Group and encourage all staff to engage
with Insight.
 Ensure that all students are appropriately challenged by their course
choice in the SP.
 Review the current target setting booklets, pupils planners and profiling
through consultation with staff and pupils and ensure a streamlined
and efficient system.
 Improve attendance to above 95% for all year groups.
 Ensure that robust moderation is embedded in all departments and
faculties.
 Monitor, track and celebrate pupils’ wider achievements.

9. Improvement Plan Priorities. Self
evaluation.
 Ensure that all evidence gathered is clearly
communicated to all and used to generate
meaningful action plans.
 Link PR&D and CLPL to improving outcomes at all
levels.
 Encourage all staff to take responsibility for their own
professional learning and development and to
engage in cross faculty self evaluation activities.
 Continue to develop leadership roles for staff and
pupils.
 Continue to evaluate the effectiveness of SLT.

10. Improvement Plan Priorities. Self
evaluation.
 Ensure that all evidence gathered is clearly
communicated to all and used to generate
meaningful action plans.
 Link PR&D and CLPL to improving outcomes at all
levels.
 Encourage all staff to take responsibility for their own
professional learning and development and to
engage in cross faculty self evaluation activities.
 Continue to develop leadership roles for staff and
pupils.
 Continue to evaluate the effectiveness of SLT.