Milestones to support learners with complex additional support needs

Education Scotland has produced a set of milestones for literacy and English and numeracy and mathematics with accompanying guidance to specifically support learners with complex additional support needs. In addition, foundation milestones have been produced which outline key skills and competencies that underpin all curricular areas. The milestones aim to support practitioners to identify the progression of learning.

Milestones are important points in development and demonstrate progression. Learners who are not able to achieve any of the benchmarks within Early Level still require tracking and monitoring of their progression. Whilst, many of these learners will move on to work at Early Level, some learners will continue to make progress at the pre-early stage. These milestones are intended to support practitioners to track the progression of these learners. They are not intended to provide an alternative curriculum. Further information can be found on the National Improvement Hub.

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Activity 9 Reflective Task

In your Reflective Log consider the following questions which focus on identifying additional support needs arising from health and disability factors

  1. Do you have access to information about the strengths, specific needs and support systems required for each learner with a disability or health condition?
  2. Do you know if learners have been able to contribute to this information? If not how can you find out?
  3. If you are working in ELC settings do you know what the procedure and system is for accessing additional or specialist support, when there is a concern regarding children’s progress and think that they may have a learning difficulty? Are all staff aware of the systems and use them effectively?
  4. What support do you put in place to ensure that your learners can still participate in the curriculum you have planned when health conditions result in periodic and/or extended absences from education.

Supporting Learners with complex additional needs

Social and emotional factors