Building on Scotland’s Educational Success

That the Parliament welcomes Scotland’s educational success since 2007; further welcomes that more children are entitled to the highest ever level of early learning and childcare, that the number of Primary 1 pupils in classes of 26 or more has fallen by 97%, that more young people get the qualifications that they need, that a record percentage leave for positive destinations and that more of the population is educated beyond school than in any other European country; notes, however, that the Scottish Government needs to do more to raise standards for all children, securing its twin aims of equity and excellence; acknowledges the investment in these aims through a range of initiatives focusing on closing the attainment gap, including the Scottish Attainment Challenge and the Attainment Scotland Fund; commends the Making Maths Count programme as a route to driving up attainment in maths and numeracy; recognises that it is important to gather the right evidence about children’s progress to show that all that local authorities, schools, teachers, parents and children and young people themselves are doing to raise standards is working, and looks forward to the next steps in developing a national improvement framework to achieve this.