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Participation Network Meeting 3rd & 4th December 2009

Strengths

Validity through CfE

Commitment of Staff present

Potential impact

Focusing on all wider achievement a celebration

Fundamental to CfE

Pupil voice within CfE

Sharing professional expertise in network

school community is real community

Diverse perspectives

different LEA

different sectors

different roles

Sharing good practice

Balance of new & experienced members

Permeates everything

Validated by Curriculum for Excellence

Evidence proves that it impacts

Opportunities for collegiate discussion cross-sector

Essential in the delivery of CfE

Support active learning

Another tool in our teaching toolkit

Weaknesses

Timing (No. of initiatives)

Not all authorities & sectors represented

Raising awareness

Next steps followed through

Lack of continuity

Staff development Staff confidence to take risk

Perception of stand alone rather than overarching & permeating

Limited opportunities to come together

Dwindling numbers

Lack of representation from all LEA

At a crossroads- needing a focussed way forward

Dwindling numbers

Local authority support

Getting our voice heard by all the right people

Please engage with Las & identify key people to support current members work

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Opportunities

GLOW

parent /pupil joint network

Widen the network

Partnership working Widening the Sharing Good Practice, Locally , Nationally & Internationally

Investigate P.P in other countries

True self evaluation

Raise profile of network

GLOW

P.P Blog or wichie

Pupil choice leading to life skills

Update DVD

Ask the children! nursery

GLOW Spreading the word more effectively and to a wider audience

Maintain the drive

Broaden beyond pupils to parents, staff, communities etc

Visiting existing good practice e.g. Alison Peacock or even within Scotland

Conference - sharing practice/ideas bring a friend

Development of leadership for all ( pupils & staff)

Improved relationships a real school community

Improved attainment & achievement in its broadest sense

Align with the Es & Os of CfE

Threats

Keeping the interest going

LTS commitment to continuing to see the value of this network

Finance

Funding? LTS (removal of)

Priorities competing with

Politics

Seen as done & unimportant

Pupil participation fall off the agenda because there is a perception that it has been done Overtaken by Global Citizenship not running alongside or as part of it

That the issue remains within this group & doesnt spread to others

Clarity required Participation/ International Ed. / Global Citizenship?

Seen as an extra instead of an integral value