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Fyfe - Education StandardsCllr Tom Fyfe - Kilmacolm press release
Over the past 3 years, in Inverclyde schools, there has been a decrease in the 5 to 14 national assessment results for writing and mathematics, the results for reading remaining steady. This in its self is disappointing but I am particularly concerned about the levels of attainment being so poor. For Secondary pupils for example, 39% failed to meet the minimum standard for writing and 24% the minimum standard for reading.
This seems to me scandalous – almost 4 out of 10 Secondary pupils failing to reach the minimum level of competence for writing. I said so at a recent Education Committee meeting and was surprised to find the former Leader of the Council rapping me over the knuckles for using inflammatory language. He felt that we should not be too critical because the results were due to the high levels of deprivation in Inverclyde and the results were comparable to other local authorities having similar problems.
Now I recognise that Inverclyde has a huge problem with deprivation. Inverclyde has the second highest concentration of deprived data zones in Scotland and has 38% of its data zones in the most deprived 15% areas. Nevertheless, I do think it is scandalous that we cannot meet the minimum standard for these basic building blocks of learning in such a high proportion of pupils.
I am not suggesting that correcting this problem will be easy but we have to do better. 2009/10 was the last year in which the 5 to 14 Curriculum was delivered in our Primary and Early Secondary stages and it has now been replaced by the Curriculum for Excellence. Hopefully the new system will produce better results. We need to get the basics right.
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