Collaborative working in Newbattle Learning Community

1. Newbattle Learning Community Partnership Collaborative working in Newbattle Learning Community Thursday, 8 February 2018 Stronger Together – A Great Place to Live, Grow and Learn

2. Overview of sessionAim - collaborative working to interrupt the cycle of poverty and make a difference to Newbattle families • How we began • Our context • Partnership working • PEF funding • Newbattle Learning Community now • Partnership Structure • One Stop Shop • Wellbeing Structure • Impact • What next

3. Newbattle ASGDrummond International Context of our CommunityLawfield Community Project

4. STRONGER TOGETHER. A GREAT PLACE TO GROW, LIVE AND LEARN.

5. Newbattle Learning Community

7. 2016 Average Total Tariff Points of an S6 Leaver in our catchment.

8. Literacy and Numeracy Levels by the end of S6 2016

9. The most affluent primary school in our Learning Community.

10. The least affluent primary school in our Learning Community.

11. How can we interrupt the cycle of poverty in Newbattle that impacts on attainment? In the meantime, at Lawfield Primary School ...

13. (8.45%) (0.03%)

14. 94.5 learning days lost

15. Attainment June 2015 • Writing • Early Level Achieved by end P1: 67% • First Level Achieved by end P4: 19% • Second Level Achieved by end P7: 11% • P7 Reading • March ’14 Lawfield Average = 93.9 (Auth: 104.2) • March ’15 Lawfield Average = 94.7 (Auth: 106 • P4 Numeracy (PTM Scores) • March ‘14 Lawfield Average 98.9 (Auth: 100.4) • March ‘15 Lawfield Average 91.7 (Auth: 102.1) • P7 Numeracy • March ’14 Lawfield Average = 83.5 (Auth: 95.1) • March ’15 Lawfield Average = 86.1 (Auth: 96.6) • P4 Reading (NGRT Scores) • March ‘14 Lawfield Average 91.5 (Auth: 102) • March ‘15 Lawfield Average 97 (Auth: 104.4)

16. Tackling Health & Wellbeing Immediate Interventions: • Lawfield Community Project = set up by the primary school plus 5 of the key partners of the Empowering Families Project (EFP): • Play Therapy base, • Home Link Family Support, • Children 1st , • Midlothian Sure Start • Midlothian Council • Frequent and Focused Wellbeing Meetings • Fireflies • Storytelling • Dads Adventure Club • Forest Schools • Chill Out

17. Storytelling

18. Engagement!

19. More Engagement... “Before all this I felt invisible, the school didn’t even know I existed, or at least that’s how it seemed. Now I feel I am acknowledged as a parent, which is a massive change” Lawfield dad.

20. 2014/15: 94.5 days lost 2015/16: 37 days lost 2016/17 : 13.5 days lost

26. What went well with LCP? • Prompt intervention; • Targeted intervention; • Holistic approach; • Supporting the staff team; • Wellbeing administrator; • Ethos of partnership full engagement; • Building of trust.

27. Main Impacts: A reduction in absconding, exclusions and lates   An increase in attainment   An increase in Parental Engagement  A change in culture A single referral pathway

28. What now for Newbattle Learning Community?

29. PEF Allocation • Total for Newbattle: £810,000 • FSM entitlement for 675 children • Each school committed a percentage of their allocation to the Newbattle Community Project to upscale Lawfield Community Project model • Budget jointly committed to Newbattle Learning Community Project: £220,000

30. What did we do with joint budget? August 2016 • Steering group formed - meet regularly • Planned consultations with stakeholders • Attended by over 90 partners in our community • Police • Lifelong Learning • Health • Further Education • Community Nursing • Third Sector Partners • Early Intervention & Prevention Team • Commitment from all

31. Initial consultation with stakeholders • What is already working really well within the Newbattle cluster? • How can we work better collaboratively? • What is our dream for the future?

32. The dream.... What would learning in Newbattle look like in 5 years time? Schools as lifelong learning hubs, supporting mental health of children and young people, raising attainment, educating parents, listening to pupil voice, family support in place, informed parents and carers, increased library services, joint working and co-location of services; one stop shop.

33. The dream.... What would learning in Newbattle look like in 5 years time? • Young people with aspirational dreams, learning based on need, whole family involvement, young people ready to learn, support for families to maximise income, break negative cycles, reduce barriers.......

34. Getting there..... To reach this goal in 5 years, we agreed on three key priorities for the Newbattle Learning Community: • Parental engagement/family learning • Health & Wellbeing: emotional and mental health • Attainment: focus on Literacy Commitment to early intervention, therefore inclusion of stand alone nursery school in all plans.

35. Parental Engagement/Family Learning • Schools open longer/more accessible eg during holidays • Effective Parent Councils, linking to community groups, playgroups, PEEP groups • Dad proofing schools • Beyond parents, intergenerational support

36. Attainment in Literacy • Midlothian Big Read, promote reading with parents, grandparents, in local community with all partners • Moderation work in listening and talking • Family learning, raise parental literacy levels • Closing vocabulary gap, targeted support

37. Health and Wellbeing • Focus on child and parent mental health, well being service, early intervention supports • Staff training across various programmes • Readiness to learn, attendance, nurture, breakfasts, walking bus • Family learning programmes, focus on HWB, literacy and numeracy

38. Implementation • Improvement plan written • Empowering Families proposal • Collaborative working model • New Structure identified • Partnership Manager in place • One size fits one – to meet the needs of the different schools • Recruitment

39. New structures • Partnership Manager • Well Being Structure • Well Being Admin • Home School Practitioners • Therapeutic workers • Menu of services • Single referral system, criteria and pathway • Transparency and tracking

40. Role of Partnership Manager • Link person for partners • Co-ordinate and plan early intervention and prevention support • Chair well being meetings across the NLC • Manage HSP team, work logs • Key link with Empowering Families team

41. Empowering Family Support Menu of Supports School Link worker for each setting Allocation meetings 2 Full-time Therapists, 3 Family support workers, Systemic Practitioner, Play Therapist, Co-ordinator, Counsellor Family Support work Reflective Team Therapy-art and play, counselling, Mindfulness Systemic Practice Video Interactive Guidance Young carers Termly reports

42. Newbattle Learning Community now – transparency & tracking Impacts – Empowering Families • 71 families have been referred to the partnership or continued to receive support during the period from August 2017 to January 2018. • Interventions included: • parenting programme • family support work • systemic family counselling • art therapy • adult counselling • child counselling • play therapy • young carers service

43. What’s different now in Newbattle Learning Community? • Project Manager and Administrator; • Increased and effect communication; • Home school link practitioners; • Cross community knowledge, understanding and support; • Increased awareness of each other’s context • Greater consistency of approaches; • Sense of solid foundation on which we are building.

44. Newbattle Learning Community now – transparency & tracking Impacts - 6 week impact of Partnership Team • Additional 92 pupils claiming Free School Meals • Engagement  with 145 children & young people and parents • More than 400 children & young people and parents supported by our Foodbanks during the Christmas holidays • Wellbeing meeting structure is now in place across all 9 of our Primary settings,  our early years settings  and continue in our Newbattle High School • 87 pupils have been brought to Wellbeing Meetings since October

45. What next? • Review and measure impact – • lates • attendance • attainment • achievement • Wellbeing • Plan budget commitment for next session

46. Our families and partners say... I’m finding it easier to get my son to school on time. My child is more settled in class. I appreciated the help and support to get to Citizen’s Advice. Children are more engaged in learning.