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Community Resilience
Community Resilience as a context for learning supports young people, their families and communities to develop an understanding of the causes and effects of emergencies. Through the careful planning and embedding of Community Resilience by practitioners, developing partnerships and making connections through STEM, Learning for Sustainability, Children’s Rights, Developing the Young Workforce or Eco Schools Scotland, young people and their communities will be equipped with the skills, capabilities and attributes to prepare for, respond to and recover from adverse and challenging situations relevant to their local area.
Community Resilience as a context for learning
A number of schools and learning centres from across Scotland took part in a national Community Resilience project.
The first Network Day was held in Denholm House, Livingston on 11 September 2018. The delegates took part in a 'Landscaping Exercise' based on the resilience focus pertinent to their local area and community need. This sets the foundation for their improvement project initial self-evaluation and planning.
Network Day 1 - Agenda and resources (Zip file, 5 MB)
The second Network Day was held in Denholm House, Livingston on 14 November 2018. The delegates who took part shared their outline plans for embedding Community Resilience and looked ahead to planning for assessment.
Network Day 2 - Agenda and resources 14 November 2018 (Word, 4MB)
The third Network Day was held in Denholm House, Livingston on 26th February 2019. The delegates shared their learning pathways and had a professional discussion about the levelling of assessments. Each school has a different “resilience focus” pertinent to the geographical challenges and the resilience needs of its community. This influences the learning pathway for each school which in turn meets the learning, physical and emotional needs of the pupils.
Network Day 3 - Embedding Community Resilience (PDF, 2MB)
Network Day 3 - Embedding Community Resilience (PowerPoint, 1MB)
Network Day 3 - Agenda and resources (PDF, 14MB)
Network Day 4 took place in Denholm House, Livingston, on 21 May 2019. Delegates evaluated the Embedding Community Resilience journey to date using the relevant Quality Indicators for their setting and resilience challenge/focus.
Network Day 4 - Embedding Community Resilience (PDF, 1.7MB)
Network Day 4 presentation (PDF, 2.8MB)
Network Day 4 - Self-evaluation tools (Zip file, 499 KB)
Network Day 5 took place on Tuesday 5 November 2019 in Denholm House. The first part of the day was spent evaluating progress and impact of the original aims using Quality Indicators from HGIOS4 whilst identifying key sources of evidence.
In the afternoon, as part of the Ready Scotland National Resilience Week, Maree Todd, Minister for Children and Young People visited Denholm House. Pupils from Logie Primary (Moray) and Mintlaw Academy (Aberdeenshire) presented how Community Resilience has supported them as individuals to come together and collectively use their skills to plan for, respond to and recover from adverse and challenging situations.
Network Day 5 - Outline of the day (PDF, 1.6 MB)
Video playlist
See 3 videos in playlist on YouTube (see small menu at top right to navigate)
Community Resilience aims - Activity resources (PDF, 123KB)
Curriculum Narrative Engagement (PDF, 409KB)
Community Resilience as a context for learning (PDF, 2.2MB)
Logie Primary - Community Resilience (PDF, 1.7MB)
Mintlaw Academy - Community Resilience (PDF, 1.6MB)
Pathfinder schools case studies (Zip file, 6 MB)
Practical support and resources
The following video explores how to use community resilience as a context for learning.
Community Resilience and Curriculum for Excellence - this briefing guide raises awareness of community resilience as an exciting context for learning within Curriculum for Excellence.
Gaelic Community Resilience resources
Overview leaflet (Gaelic) (PDF, 1.87KB)
Animal Disease Outbreak (Zip file, 432KB)
Preparing for Winter Learning Journey (Zip file, 233KB)
Utilities Failure (Zip file, 205KB)
Learner challenge: Creating a public information website (Gaelic version) (PDF, 587KB)
Learner challenge: Media and public safety (Gaelic version) (PDF, 643KB)
The following videos show how pupils, staff and the wider community of Bun-Sgoil Ghàidhlig Phort Rìgh are Embedding Community Resilience as a context for learning through the four cornerstones of Community, Culture, Language and Friendship.
Tapachd Coimhearsnachd - Bun sgoil Ghàidhlig Phort Rìgh
Tapachd Coimhearsnachd - Bun sgoil Ghàidhlig Phort Rìgh (English subtitles)
External links
Safeguarding Prevent in Education
Community Resilience and Social Studies - this mapping guide shows clear links between Community Resilience and Social Studies.
English Speaking Union: Community resilience debating resource pack for primary schools (PDF, 1.4MB)
Community Resilience at Gairloch High School (YouTube video)
Events and activities
Scottish Resilient Community Conference 30 October 2018 (Zip file, 6.7 MB)
Flood Risk Management – Partnership Working Discussion (PDF, 547KB)
Links
Principles and practice documents
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