Council launches new education blueprint
ARGYLL and Bute Council has launched an education strategy document designed to meet national guidelines.
The strategy, entitled Our Children, Their Future, has six main objectives:
Raise educational attainment and achievement for everyone.
Use performance information to secure improvement for children and young people.
Ensure children have the best start in life and are ready to succeed.
Equip young people to secure and sustain positive destinations and achieve success in life.
Strengthen high quality partnership working and community engagement.
Strengthen leadership at all levels.
Speaking at the official launch at Tarbert Academy earlier this week, policy lead for education and life50th long learning, Councillor Rory Colville said: ‘The Scottish education system is going through a period of significant change and the expectations of staff working with young people has never been greater. Our Children, Their Future makes our strategy clear to realise the national visions for Scottish education but also our local visions for our young people.
‘Our aspiration is to ensure that Argyll and Bute is the best place in Scotland for our children to grow. Our vision is that together we will realise, equality excellence and ambition. This starts from the work we do with families before a child is born all the way through to making sure our young people move on to positive destinations at the end of their school career.
‘The strategy belongs to those whose education we provide, to the families that support them and to our staff who have the joy and privilege of being such a critical part of those children and young people’s lives. We will ensure that we involve pupils, families and staff in reviewing and monitoring our strategy.’