Audit Scotland published a report on Thursday 27 February examining the effectiveness of the Scottish Government’s delivery of additional support for learning in schools across Scotland. The report found a '768% growth in pupils recorded as receiving additional...
The plethora of statistics on Scottish school education that has appeared in the last week is a reminder of how inadequate the current provision is. The First Minister, John Swinney, and the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Russell Findlay, fell into the...
A West Lothian School is named as the best school in Scotland by the Times Newspaper. Our Lady of Lourdes in Blackburn is the school in question - see the article below. Playback Newsroom
King Charles III has honoured Liz with an MBE in his birthday honours list for her services to education. Liz has been the CEO of Playback Learning and Founding Chair of Playback Trust for the last 26 years. Playback Learning works with schools to raise aspirations...
Head Teacher Having used the Playback Ice tracking system for three years, I can confidently say it has significantly streamlined many processes in our school. As head teacher time is precious and this system has proved to have saved both myself and the entire...
Playback is uniquely placed to unlock the potential of data within the education sector through our credible data application designed with and for senior leaders. Our focus over the last 3 years has been sustained educational improvement by tracking data in literacy,...
The Playback film Looking Through Disability soon found its way into classrooms across all 32 local authorities in Scotland. Playback’s journey continued to evolve into becoming a leading player in the pursuit of promoting inclusion, citizenship, equality and...
Reform Scotland, the independent, non-partisan think tank, has today published a new paper written by Professor Lindsay Paterson, professor emeritus of education policy in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, and Bruce Robertson,...