1. Jackie Maley (HMI) Lead Officer, ELC
Quality in
Early Learning and Childcare
Key messages from inspection
Jackie Maley (HMI) Lead Officer, ELC
For Scotland’s learners with Scotland’s practitioners

2. Aims of today’s session
Provide an overview of the key messages coming from inspection to share a national perspective of strengths and areas for development
For Scotland’s learners with Scotland’s practitioners

3. Consider…..
For a few minutes consider what the key strengths of your own setting are.
What are the key areas for development?
For Scotland’s learners with Scotland’s practitioners

4. Education Scotland Inspections
September 2017 – June 2018
123 ELC inspections
(nursery class and standalone)
12 short model nursery class
26 further inspections
59 shared with the Care Inspectorate colleagues
For Scotland’s learners with Scotland’s educators

5. Evaluations in ELC
1.3
Leadership of change
Excellent
Very Good
Good
Satisfactory
Weak
Unsatisfactory
Number 2 16 54 33 17 1
Percentage 2%
13%
44%
27%
14% 1%
2.3
Learning, teaching and assessment 14 56 40 12
11%
46%
33%
10% 0%
3.2
Securing children's progress 18 61 10
15%
50% 8%
3.1
Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion 35 53 21 13
28%
43%
17% .
For Scotland’s learners with Scotland’s practitioners

6. Inspection models Full inspection Short inspection
1.3 Leadership of change
2.3 Learning, teaching and assessment
3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion
3.2 Securing children’s progress
Short inspection
2.3 as above
3.2 as above
For Scotland’s learners with Scotland’s educators

7. Messages from inspection QI 1.3 Leadership of change
For Scotland’s learners with Scotland’s educators

8. Messages from inspection QI 1.3 Leadership of change
Key strengths
Positive efforts to develop a shared vision, values and aims – relevant to setting /community
Commitment to improve work of the setting
Leadership developing at all levels
Use of self evaluation to evaluate and improve the quality of provision
Pace of change and focus on outcomes
Awareness of current thinking in ELC
For Scotland’s learners with Scotland’s educators

9. Messages from inspection QI 1.3 Leadership of change
Areas for development
Sharing vision, values and aims with children in a developmentally appropriate way
The need to look outward
Self evaluation – formalised and systematic and linked to outcomes for children
Impact of staffing on strategic planning
For Scotland’s learners with Scotland’s educators

10. Messages from inspection QI 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessment
For Scotland’s learners with Scotland’s educators

11. Messages from inspection QI 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessment
Key strengths
Children’s engagement
Nurturing interactions and positive relationships
Defined pedagogy
Ongoing developments including loose parts and use of natural resources – creativity, curiosity and inquiry
Children leading and talking about learning – use of floor books as a tool
For Scotland’s learners with Scotland’s educators

12. Messages from inspection QI 2.3 Learning, teaching and assessment
Areas for development
Use of national guidance to support development of environments and quality of planning
Build on interactions – questioning and commentary
High quality observation and assessment based on significant learning to ensure progression
Use of assessment information
Development of a language of learning
Use of digital technologies
For Scotland’s learners with Scotland’s educators

13. Messages from inspection QI 3
Messages from inspection QI 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion
For Scotland’s learners with Scotland’s educators

14. Messages from inspection QI 3
Messages from inspection QI 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion
Key strengths
Promote and ensure wellbeing and inclusion of children – treated as individuals
Strong, positive relationships with children and families
Increasing knowledge and use of national wellbeing indicators
Children involved in making decisions
Fulfilment of statutory duties
For Scotland’s learners with Scotland’s educators

15. Messages from inspection QI 3
Messages from inspection QI 3.1 Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion
Areas for development
Knowledge and use of national wellbeing indicators with children and families
Use of data to secure positive outcomes
Challenging gender stereotypes
Planning to best meet individual needs
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16. Messages from inspection QI 3.2 Securing children’s progress
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17. Messages from inspection QI 3.2 Securing children’s progress
Key strengths
67% of settings evaluated good or better
Appropriate focus on early language, mathematics and health and wellbeing
Range of approaches used to record and articulate children’s progress – value added
Identification of potential barriers to learning and tailored interventions put in place including collaboration with other agencies
For Scotland’s learners with Scotland’s educators

18. Messages from inspection QI 3.2 Securing children’s progress
Areas for development
Professional learning to support developmental stages in early literacy and numeracy
Provision of sufficient challenge in learning and more real life, meaningful contexts
Children’s wider achievements recorded and built upon
Use of data to offer support and challenge to children
For Scotland’s learners with Scotland’s educators

19. Reflections