Question reference: S5W-23636
- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: 6 June 2019
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Current status: Answered by John Swinney on 19 June 2019
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many of the participants on the P1 Practitioner’s Forum were (a) from organisations that are allied to schools, (b) school management staff, (c) P1 teachers in (i) 2017-18 and (ii) 2018-19 and (d) academics.
Answer
The number of participants in the Forum varied from meeting to meeting, depending on members’ availability. In total around 30-35 people were involved over the four meetings of the Forum. Details on the make-up of the P1 Practitioner Forum were provided in response to S5W-22894 n 9 May 2019. As this sets out, information on whether the teachers on the Forum were teaching P1 in 2017-18 and 2018-19 was not gathered. The published information does however make clear that the vast majority of teachers on the Forum had taught P1 classes and had been involved with SNSA within schools. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx .