Annual performance spotlights
Connect outcome - Education and learning
Inspiring learners, transforming learning, strengthening partnerships
What communities told us:
- Improve health and wellbeing to enable children and families to flourish.
- Provide a rich and stimulating curriculum that helps raise standards in literacy and numeracy.
- Support children and young people to develop their skills for learning, life and work.
- Adult learning should be affordable and accessible to older adults. This is good for mental health and physical health and making friendships.
- Digital training and accessible learning with opportunities to gain skills are important for adults and young people alike.
- Life skills teaching is required – money management, mortgages and use of credit. The skills that should be promoted are IT/Digital skills as well as interpersonal.
- Create an environment for communities to fall down, learn and get back up and keep going
What success will look like:
- Improved attainment in literacy and numeracy
- Improved attendance
- Improved positive destinations for our young people
Case study:
Conference of Schools
Our Youth Forum on Climate Change and Sustainability eagerly provided an opportunity for young individuals to partake in a “conference of schools” event featuring diverse workshops connected to climate change and sustainability.
The aim was to empower them to lead better lives and adopt simple actions to nurture the planet. This year’s event welcomed 240 students ranging from S1 to S3, representing most of the schools within the authority.
Celebrating success
- Milton Primary School is the proud recipients of a Gold School Sport Award from Sport Scotland.
- David Livingstone Memorial Primary School was awarded Gold Accreditation from The Scottish Book Trust’s Reading Schools initiative.
- High Mill Primary School has been awarded the Digital Wellbeing Award for Cyber resilience and Internet Safety
- Duncanrig Secondary School has achieved the Scottish Credit Qualifications Framework (SCQF) Bronze Award.
- Hamilton Grammar ASN Department has been chosen as winners in the secondary category for the South Lanarkshire short film competition “The Biodiversity of Your Local Area”.
- Trinity High School were delighted to recently be awarded the prestigious Gold Reading Schools Award by the Scottish Book Trust
- In March 2024 South Lanarkshire Instrumental Music Service hosted their first ‘live’ Young Musician of the Year event. 16 Musicians from High Schools across the authority gave outstanding performances and the winner represented South Lanarkshire at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in May 2024.
How we did in 2023-24
Note: 2022-23 education results are for academic year 2023
