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How Successful Have We Been in Improving Our SChool

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Pupil Equity Funding was used to continue to support strategic roles within our school, including PT Wellbeing & Inclusion, with specific focus on young people in receipt of Free School Meals or Clothing Grant, those living in SIMD 1-4 and those who are care experienced. Our targeted group of pupils - care experienced, those impacted by poverty, young carers and those with ASNs -  are supported to achieve success and positive outcomes in line with their peers.

Our interventions included one to one mentoring with a key teacher and individualised attainment support with subject specialists, ensuring these young people achieved positive outcomes in SQA courses and qualifications. Additional Literacy and Numeracy support was also invested to support learning across the curriculum for young people at risk of not attaining, and our Insight data shows high performance for these young people. Where known financial barriers existed, families were given discrete support with school uniform, everyday learning materials and funding for school activities, removing barriers to learning and participation.

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«  Caring ethos, raising ambition and aspiration of young people and their families and supporting wellbeing for all.

«  Pupil tracking of attainment and achievement ensuring young people achieve their maximum through individualised interventions that are evaluated for impact

«  A highly motivated school community – parents/carers who support the school, staff who are highly committed and young people who are motivated and inspired to achieve

«  Leadership at all levels that empowers staff and young people to take on new challenges that develop their skills, knowledge and whole school contribution

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OUR NEXT STEPS - PRIORITIES for 2025 -26

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OUR NEXT STEPS - PRIORITIES for 2025 -26

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We believe that we have made very good progress during session 2024-25, and we will use the improvement priorities listed below to build on this progress moving forward.

·       Develop even more impactful approaches and interventions to support the mental health and Wellbeing of all young people and staff in our school using planned  universal and targeted support, including a bespoke GMWP pupil profile and NVR family support groups

·       Enhance our support pupils on SIMD1-4, FME/care experienced/at risk to ensure they are fully supported to achieve their potential – Promise Keepers Commitment – utilising 2 Project Leaders.

·       Work collegiately to improve Learning and Teaching in line with our vision for excellent learning, involving young people, staff and parents meaningfully in this journey, systematically evaluating the impact of our improvements

·       Meet the needs of all young people in school, ensuring they receive the entitlements and supports that enable them to reach their potential, and upskill all staff on inclusive classroom methodologies.

·       We will continue our advanced Broad General Education S1-3 moderation work, to ensure greater consistency and quality in learning, teaching and assessment.

·       Ensure our school values of Caring, learning and Achieving are the golden thread running through all of our practice and instil Ready, Respectful, Safe as our mantra for preparedness to learn

·       Further facilitate middle leader collaboration on school improvement through timetabled weekly collegiate time protected for meetings and strategic development work.

·       Embed Career Education Standards - including My World of Work profiling - into the curriculum

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Gryffe High School is a welcoming school at the heart of the local community. It is set in a semi-rural open

campus serving the villages of Houston, Bridge of Weir and the surrounding area.

We pride ourselves on our high expectations and sit amongst the highest achieving schools in Scotland, living our values of Caring, Learning and Achieving.

Our key focus is on our young people as individuals and from their significant achievements we celebrate their success, and promote building resilience. The wellbeing of our young people is central to our purpose, and this is epitomised by the comprehensive range of extra-curricular opportunities and universal supports our young people benefit from. Our approach to enriching the curriculum supports young people to achieve and attain excellence, whilst being fully prepared for life beyond Gryffe.

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QI 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion

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QI 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion

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QI 2.3 Learning, Teaching & Assessment Self Evaluation

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QI 2.3 Learning, Teaching & Assessment Self Evaluation

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RNRA - Renfrewshire Nurturing Relationships Approach

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RNRA - Renfrewshire Nurturing Relationships Approach

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We are working towards Amethyst Accreditation for Renfrewshire's Nurturing Relationships Approach.

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Our Headstrong programme continues to provide positive mentoring sessions for some pupils in S1-S6. Some staff also benefitted form this well being support.

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Gryffe High School is fully committed to maintaining consistently high standards in all aspects of school life.

This will be achieved through fostering a caring environment, with learners at the centre, ensuring everyone feels safe and supported.

We endeavour to promote effective learning and teaching and provide all pupils, and staff, with opportunities to enable their true potential to be realised in a challenging, supportive and enjoyable way.

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We were successful in achieving the Gold Award for Reading Schools accreditation, which reflects our approach to building and sustaining a reading culture, working in partnership with our school librarian

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We have fully embedded children's rights throughout their ethos, policies, and practice

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45% 5+ Highers in S5, 86% of S4 pupils achieving 5+ National 5s or better, 44% of S6 Achieving 1 or more Advanced Higher.

We continue to close the attainment gap with a wide range of timely interventions to support our young peoples' achievements.

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Almost all S2 pupils achieved the Young STEM Leader Level 4 Award, by inspiring, leading and mentoring their peers through the delivery of a range of STEM activities.

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Our new timetable and curriculum approach for S3 enables young people to have an additional period per week in each of their chosen subjects to promote wider achievement and deeper learning. This has allowed some of our pupils to gain 8 National 5 qualifications at the end of S4.

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30 S3 pupils achieved the Climate Ready Classroom Award through their Wider Achievement work in Geography lessons.

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We continued to support wider achievement accreditation in food hygiene (REHIS) for all 40 pupils in our S3 Practical Cookery cohort

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Over 100 S4 pupils achieved Level 5 passes in Scottish Studies, widening their knowledge of Scotland and making naturally occurring connections across the curriculum

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Our extensive Duke of Edinburgh programme supported 70 young people to achieve the DofE Bronze award - including industry standard Emergency First Aid training - with many continuing towards Silver next session. There are currently 17 young people working towards the Gold Award, one of the largest school cohorts in Scotland.

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Social justice continues to be a focus within our school community, which has been recognised through the achievemnt of LGBT Charter Silver status.

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Our robust tracking systems continue to provide a wealth of attainment data in both the Broad General Education and the Senior Phase, leading to early support interventions and positive outcomes for young people. The addition of S3 exams has provide more robust data for earlier interventions to support young people in S4 - their first certificated year.

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We continue to develop strategies for improving literacy and numeracy levels for all. As part of our Literacy and Numeracy Strategy, our Teacher of Literacy/Numeracy (BGE) and our Primary-Secondary transition teacher support all young people to improve their core skills, enabling them to better engage with the whole curriculum throughout the BGE. Our Accelerated Reader programme enables us to accurately determine reading ages for all young people in the BGE and plan for improvement through identifying appropriately challenging texts to support reading development.

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S1 and S2 numeracy strategy includes Beyond Seal and use of concrete materials to create a bespoke approach to developing numeracy for a target group of young people. Our partnership working in with cluster primary schools is improving attainment in Mathematics for young people, evidenced by our strongest ever SQA Mathematics results.

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Our Careers Festival was a resounding success again this year with 65 plus stalls providing information across a huge range of industries and further education establishments. Over 300 young people from S1-S6 participated along with many more parents / carers.

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Our Spring & Christmas Concerts continue to be a celebration of music and talent, featuring over 100 pupils across all ensembles / performances.

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All of our teaching staff have undertaken Circle Training to enhance our inclusive classroom approach. Many staff across the school are Mentors in Violence Prevention trained, and almost all our teaching staff have undertaken Non-Violent Resistance training with the purpose of developing effective de-escalation strategies.

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The Citizenship committee collected for Refuweegee this year for our Winter Charity Appeal. The packs they have put together include a backpack or bag that could be reused; some warm items like gloves, hat and scarf; some toiletries; any little luxury items like a gift, stationary, etc.; something to eat - possibly something Scottish like Teacakes or tablet!; and a letter or note, welcoming the person to Scotland and what life might be like here.

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Our Monthly Ceremonies of Achievement continue to take place to recognise pupils who Care, Learn and Achieve fantastic things both within and out with the classroom.

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Glasgow Motivation and Wellbeing Toolkit

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Glasgow Motivation and Wellbeing Toolkit

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We continue to successfully utilise the Glasgow Motivation and Wellbeing Toolkit as a method of tracking wellbeing data for pupils across S1 – S6, in order to inform targeted interventions across the school

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All pupil support staff have received training in CBT approaches, ensuring conversations and support is consistent for all pupils

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All pupil support staff, S6 Wellbeing Ambassadors and S6 School Captains have received training in CBT approaches, ensuring conversations and support is consistent for all pupils

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Our in-house Wellbeing support this year continues to be a blend of internal and external services. Our external services are:

Exchange Counselling

Headstrong Coaching

St. Vincent's bereavement support

CBT-Lite

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Approximately 800 runners participated in the event including P6 & P7 pupils from Bridge of Weir and Houston PS's.

The event raised a fantastic total of £1288.50 for the chosen charity of Erskine Veterans.

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Career Education and Positive Destinations

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Career Education and Positive Destinations

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Career Education and Positive Destinations 2024: We achieved 100% positive destinations, which is reflective of our excellent strengths in universal tracking and monitoring, and timely interventions for any young person at risk of not achieving a positive destination.

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Our new Teaching and Learning Policy was launched last session. This is in line with current educational research and offers staff a useful tool to support effective Teaching and Assessment strategies. During the session all staff were provided with professional learning through Sharing Effective Practice meetings and the 'Big Idea'.